D+P Studio News

Here is a wee bit of news from the D+P Studio!

‘Future’ project collaborations with participants..

25 March 2017

Collaborations with individual learners using pens and art brushes – sometimes we would enjoy taking turns on pieces, passing them around the table..

Category: Art Groups Tags: Community Groups, Poetry and creative writing

Discussing creative approaches at the Mitchell Library for combining art and literacy

22 March 2017

At the Aye Write ’17 Adult Literacy event at the Mitchell Library, March – Blair discussing the creative approaches to combine art and design and writing – for the publication ‘Future’ which was launched at the event.

Category: News Tags: Community Groups, Poetry and creative writing

‘Future’ publication launched at the Glasgow Aye Write! Book Festival

20 March 2017

The cover of this community art book. Has been a fantastic project to work with everyone on..

Category: News Tags: Community Groups, Poetry and creative writing

Painting with sumi ink – Sho practice

10 March 2017

Making some marks with fude brushes and fudepen. Beginning sho practice with the brush stopping and flicking, speed of the marks and energy. Kanji characters ten – heavens/ sky and shin or kokoro – heart/ mind.

Category: Art Groups Tags: Creative preparation

Graphic design geometric tasks

10 March 2017

Using art brushes (filled with ink) and Prockey and Maped pens to experiment on cartridge paper with a graphic design balance of colours and angular shapes. The ink creates a good textural contrast with the less flat more marky pens which helps with variety in the design. We have aimed for some pieces to keep the tones of the colours as similar as possible whilst looking for colour contrast (which can be a bit tricky!), others have tonal as well as colour contrast in them.

Category: Art Tags: Creative preparation

‘Future’ – a publication for the Aye Write! Glasgow book festival

27 February 2017

Preparation for the publication of ‘Future’ for the Aye Write! book festival in March, a book of writing and drawing by adult learners across Glasgow. Have laid out the 50 pages here, placing at least one piece of written work and one drawing by each of the thirty five contributors. Not enough pages for so much creative output since January!

Enjoying working with the learners, Stuart Corkindale (2 Hours Limited) and Glasgow Life on this project. The theme is ‘Learning for the Future’ which has been open to imaginative and quirky ideas and contemplation about our possible urban scape, society, technology and day to day life in the future.

Category: Art Groups Tags: Community Groups

A few more pictures…

20 February 2017

A few more pictures from the Maryhill Hub art groups last term, working in sketchbooks and larger sheets of cartridge paper with posca, prockey and other pens. Lots of energy and sketchbooks filled up with drawings and collage!

Maryhill Art Group @ The Maryhill Hub 2016 Winter

Category: Art Groups Tags: Community Groups, Maryhill Art Group

G15 Youth Project in Drumchapel

20 February 2017

Great fun to work with the talented creative young people at G15 Youth Project in Drumchapel over January and February. We used all sorts of materials from paints, to ink with sticks and bamboo pens, felt and paint pens – we even included pencil by popular demand! Themes the young folk worked on included nature, cityscape, manga, figure drawing, doodling and developing their own visual interests.

G15 Youth Project – Art Group

Category: Art Groups Tags: Community Groups, Young people's art

Art Materials Sponsorship

5 February 2017

Sketchbooks from Millers Art, Glasgow

Maryhill Art Group @ Maryhill Hub

Thanks to Millers Art (https://www.facebook.com/millersartshop) for kindly sponsoring our community art classes with materials and the very popular A4 sketchbooks for our winter 2016/2017 term.

The books have been energetically collaged and filled with life drawings, sketches of manga and abstract expressionists patterns and more!

Category: Art Groups Tags: Community Groups, Maryhill Art Group

Manga and anime themed drawing group

3 February 2017

Workshop using sketchbooks, graphite and pens – manga and anime themed drawing workshop at G15 Youth Project, Drumchapel.

An exciting challenge to develop compositions and ideas. Especially working with figure drawing and portraits with the simplifed strokes and manga style proportions. For creative inspiration we looked at images by Gosho Aoyama (Detective Conan), Guardians of the Galaxy, One Piece, Studio Ghibli such as Totoro and Princess Mononoke, and a fabulous dragon by Hokusai.