There happened to be a maker’s event on at the Riverside museum so it was pretty busy, but soon after we started drawing at the river side of the building, next to the Tall Ship, we became engrossed in the sketching. Our warm up doodles… Read More »Curving and straight lines and cloudy skies over the open Clyde riverscape
Just outside the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum we had a couple of hours of relaxing sketching. After a bit of warm up doodling and taking a line for a walk, we used pencils and pens to work from the grand building with its abundance… Read More »Drawing quirky rooftops, arches and gulls at Kelvingrove
At the NUC summer group with children, we worked on a summer environmental theme, exploring painting and using different materials for mark making including brushes, rollers and hand prints. The children also enjoyed painting on to the leaves directly, and had ideas for rainbows, butterflies.… Read More »Playing with paint – leaves, handprints and a joyful T-rex
This week we picked up on the shapes of the garden courtyard, buildings and summer foliage that we had explored with A4 drawings the week before. We used collage and some simple craft cutting and sticking this time, combined with the lovely transparent inks, with… Read More »Vibrant collage and crafty bold shapes
On a hot Monday evening we enjoyed some Shodo calligraphy in the refreshingly cool Kagyu Samye Dzong building. We wrote or painted (in Japanese the verb kaku means both to write, draw, paint) the word Kongo 金剛 which means literally metal/ gold and brave/ sturdy.… Read More »Painting brave diamonds at Zen Heart Brush
It was a bright day in the Maryhill Hub, and beautiful looking out the large windows to the garden courtyard and plants and vegetables growing there. We started with some doodly drawings based on the shapes in the courtyard, such as the raised beds, organic… Read More »Summer drawings from the courtyard
At the Ruchill after school primary group the children worked on their sketchbooks, drawing mainly with pencils this session. They began looking directly at some small natural objects like shells and a fragile pale green green sea urchin shell. After sketching in peace for a… Read More »Sea urchins and shells turning into skulls and robots!
Having fun with the shodo calligraphy characters we will work with on Monday! Kin metal, gold, one of the Chinese 5 elements, kongo diamond, as well as tamashii, spirit. The meanings and variety of visuals in each of these is fascinating ?
We had fun with trying out both the curved older Tensho style as well as the more stylized Kaisho style at the last session. First we worked with with Ki 木 – tree, experimenting with the branch like strokes, and then Yume – dream/ illusion,… Read More »Shodo calligraphy – in the middle of a dream
At the last Maryhill art group we used pastels to develop some landscapy pieces and textures, inspired by images of the Highlands and a wee book of poetry and art by Hamish Fulton ‘Wild Life – Walks in the Cairngorms’.
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