D+P Studio News
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Funky shell and sea patterns
25 June 2019
Inspired by the sea shore and sea creatures, we sketched and doodled at our own pace at Clydebank art group (Centre81) using pens and pencils. This Wednesday we will use oil pastels and collage to explore the textures of the sea. 🏝 Please come along to enjoy some relaxed creative time 😉
Kindly supported by West Dunbartonshire Council and Flightpath
Category: Art Groups Tags: Clydebank Art Group, Community Groups
Flowing patterns of birds, grasses and flowers
18 June 2019
Last time at Clydebank art group (Centre81) we had some de-stress doodling time and we drew some patterns with birds, flowers and grasses 🐦🌿🌺
At the next group we will have a fresh sea theme! 🏝
You are very welcome to come along to join us 🙂
Kindly supported by West Dunbartonshire Council and Flightpath
Category: Art Groups Tags: Clydebank Art Group, Community Groups
Funky abstraction and expansive landscapes
7 June 2019
Well done to The Maryhill HUB team for organising their vibrant community art exhibition. Here are some images from the North United Communities artworks display…🙂⛺️🏔🌇🖌🎨🖼
Photos courtesy of The Maryhill HUB
Category: Art Groups Tags: Community Groups, NUC, Young people's art
Spring experiments and lots of tensho!
5 June 2019
The primary school group on Saturday at North United Communities in Maryhill Hub tried Japanese calligraphy for the first time and had lots of fun!
To begin with we did some short meditation together, just grounding and breathing, settling, and then touching the materials which everyone enjoyed. Then we poured the sumi ink and straight away they were making marks with the fude brushes and engaging with the pictorial aspects of the characters, and the shapes of the strokes.
They were especially keen to try the tensho and kinbun styles of characters, and we chatted about the meanings behind these and how they related to our experience of being connected to nature. There was a fair bit of experimentation in this group with the children exploring the dense quality of the ink and also the hanshi paper which was is a lot thinner they are used to.
明 akarui – bright was a nice kanji that was enjoyed, and also 春 haru – spring – and dai 大 – great – with other kanji also being worked on. The meanings and rich visual language of each character was quickly absorbed by the young people.
Kindly supported by The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
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Workshop for North United Communities
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Category: Art Groups Tags: Community Groups, NUC, Sasakawa Foundation, Shodo calligraphy, Young people's art
Colour and movement – painting with watercolours
5 June 2019
Last week at Clydebank art group (Centre81) we had fun with watercolours inspired by nature, looking at the varied colour combinations and shapes in leaves and flowers.
Our initial doodles helped us to free up and get our creativity going!
Kindly supported by West Dunbartonshire Council and Flightpath
Category: Art Groups Tags: Clydebank Art Group, Community Groups
Clouds and heart-mind at Maryhill Hub
30 May 2019
Secondary school young people at the Friday night North United Communities group embraced Japanese writing and Shodo calligraphy. The group had some meditative time first to feel the textures and weight of the materials, such as the types of fude brushes, suzuri ink well and bunchin paper weight, and to settle and breathe deeply, before beginning.
Kumo 雲 – cloud – was especially popular in the kaisho style. And with a few participants being anime fans such as of Natsu Dragneel, so we worked on natsu 夏- summer – as well as a bonus!
Some young people also enjoyed working on kokoro 心 – heart or mind. One young participant even worked on the hiragana syllabary which was fantastic and we explored some of the pronunciation of these as well as the kanji characters.
Kindly supported by The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
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Workshop for North United Communities
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Category: Art Groups Tags: Community Groups, NUC, Sasakawa Foundation, Shodo calligraphy, Young people's art
Leafy breezy doodles in the community garden
27 May 2019
At the Clydebank art group, we took advantage of the sunny weather to do some wee sketches and doodles outside in the leafy green Centre81 community garden, and we enjoyed other drawings inside as well using pens and coloured pencils🙂🌞🌿🌺
It was lovely and peaceful in the garden with the sound of the breeze through the trees🌳
Kindly supported by West Dunbartonshire Council and Flightpath
Category: Art Groups Tags: Clydebank Art Group, Community Groups
Springy summery leaves and rippling water at Clydebank art group 🌿🌞🌸
21 May 2019
Inspired by the canal area next to the Centre81, the leaves and flowers and shoots at the banks of the gently moving waters, we enjoyed some easygoing doodling and sketching with pens, pencils and coloured pencils. Relaxing and fun 😄
Kindly supported by West Dunbartonshire Council and Flightpath
Category: Art Groups Tags: Clydebank Art Group, Community Groups
Shodo calligraphy at Ruchill Community Centre
21 May 2019
At our first Sasakawa Foundation sponsored event in Ruchill, local children and staff tried out Japanese calligraphy for the first time, using traditional materials such as fude brushes and sumi ink to write some Chinese kanji characters. We explored a natural theme of light and space.
We started with some discussion about the styles and type of imagery, and just a little about the history! Then after some demonstration, we worked from tsuki 月, moon, and hi 日, sun or day. The young people really engaged with the peaceful and attentive way of working, and with the tensho and kaisho styles, and surprisingly told us it was so easy! They wanted more kanji to work from 🙂
Next we worked on mountains and water, or landscape, sansui 山水, a nice simple word with two characters. Then ai 愛, love, and onto dai 大, great or large, which has a lovely balance and contrast between the type of brushstrokes. No problem for the Ruchill young folk!
We then worked on each person’s name in the katakana syllabary, which we encouraged them to add to some of their pieces, or just try it on a single sheet of paper.
Kindly supported by The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
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Workshop for North United Communities
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Category: Art Groups Tags: Community Groups, NUC, Sasakawa Foundation, Shodo calligraphy, Young people's art
Mysterious shapes and energy of trees
29 March 2019
Continuing from last week’s theme of spring growth we probed the branchy twisting shapes within trees, more easily seen before all the leaves come out.
Thinking about the graceful shapes and sense of wisdom that trees convey, we were free to make more artworks and find connections between roots, branches, seeds, shoots, buds and the energetic positive feeling of Spring.
Using coloured pencils and pens we each drew our own tree of life.
Kindly supported by Glasgow Connected Arts Network
Category: Art Groups Tags: Community Groups, Maryhill Art Group