Tag: Mural
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Hole in the Ground
‘Alice in Wonderland’ at Titchmarsh School 3.4.14 To accompany the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ themed day I painted a large Rabbit Hole in the school playground, which greeted the children when they arrived at school that morning. Measuring approximately 36′ x 19′ it stretches from the school gate to the playground door as an anamorphic distortion,…
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Town Called M-Alice……….Part 2
‘A Mad Tea-Party’ at Titchmarsh School– The Mural 4.4.14 One month after the World Book Day Drawing Workshops and I returned to Titchmarsh School for an ‘Alice in Wonderland‘ day to complete the Mad Tea Party project. On my last visit Eeyore met me at Reception, this time it was the Queen of Hearts. It…
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An End Has A Start
Image making workshops at Newark Hill Primary 19.3.14 Perhaps my last session in the classroom with my year 6 group at NHPS and this week our approach took a different tack, with design playing the central role. I began the workshop by showing a selection of images on my MacBook of the drawings produced during the…
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Instant Karma!
Titchmarsh Primary/Warmington School ‘Unity & Friendship Sharing Day’ Mural 18.10.13 ‘I wrote it for breakfast, recorded it for lunch and we’re putting it out for dinner’ The words of John Lennon, and the story, as he told it, about how the song ‘Instant Karma’ was produced. It’s slightly inaccurate. It was written and recorded in…
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Monster……………..the movie!
Fulbridge Reception Corridor – Mission Accomplished! 22.7 – 17.9.13 The Reception Corridor murals at Fulbridge Academy, one wall based upon the book ‘Dear Zoo’ by Rod Campbell and the other The Gruffalo, The Gingerbread Man and Little Red Riding Hood. Fulbridge Academy, Keeton Rd, Peterborough PE1 3JQ
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Monster
Fulbridge Reception Corridor – Stage 2 30.8 – 17.9.13 A continuation of the Reception Corridor project at Fulbridge Academy where earlier this summer I painted a mural based upon the book ‘Dear Zoo’ by Rod Campbell. The painting would illustrate 3 stories within the same composition which the children would be using as reading books…
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Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except For Me & My Monkey
Fulbridge Reception Corridor 22.7 – 2.8.13 A corridor mural inspired by the book ‘Dear Zoo’ by Rod Campbell Fulbridge Academy, Keeton Rd, Peterborough PE1 3JQ
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Travelling Without Moving
Titchmarsh Primary ‘Passport’ Mural 25.6 – 2.7.13 On 26th February, while still painting the Fulbridge Entrance Project, I received an email from Josie Milton, Head Teacher of Titchmarsh Primary School, Northants ‘Hi Colin I would be very interested in commissioning you to come and do a mural at our school or even an artist in…
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Roots to Branches 35
15.3.13 ‘Yes, I have been privileged to know some of the noblest walls in England, but happy fortune reserved the best for my last – the last love of my old age. In form, in surface, in elasticity, in lighting, and in that indefinable something which is, as we all know, the final beauty of…