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Season’s Greetings 🎄
21 December 2020
Best wishes for the festive season!
We hope you are keeping warm and well and enjoy the winter holidays. Here is our Season’s Greetings card with images of some of the many wholehearted and inspiring works by participants 💖 Huge thanks for all your encouragement and support this year and we look forward to meet with you again in 2021 as the winter sun rises ❄️🌞
From Blair and the D+P Studio team.
Category: Art Groups Tags: Community Groups, Drawing Groups
Creative time – delighting in autumn colours
12 October 2020
On the West Coast of Scotland here in Glasgow the autumnal colours have been rich and changing from day to day. 🍂
For this fun creative time challenge we photographed some of the colours and shapes near us.🍁 Please send us any photographs, poetry and haiku, or artworks that have an autumn feeling. Many thanks for sending to us!
As we walk through the North of the city there are so many different trees expressing themselves with their colourful leaves blowing in the breeze. The whispering foliage stirs in the wind as we stop and listen and watch – the greens almost turning yellow and gold in front of us.
Here is a translation (by Blair with the kind help of Kokuu) of Dogen’s joyful waka five line poem:
on September’s
crimson leaves
the falling snow
who among us
would not be moved to song?
Joan’s photos of maple leaves from British Columbia, the colours are so vivid with the blue sky peeking through.
Northern Glasgow captured by Elaine with wonderful reflections, water and open spaces 🙂
Dominika has kindly shared her deep red and orange painting, and inspiring and spacious piece which takes us into a different world, soaring with the birds.
https://www.instagram.com/dominikanomed/
An expressive and warm feeling haiku poem by Laura, surrounded by lovely drawings of leaves and horse chestnut.
Complementary colours animate Ken’s strikingly visual and light filled short haiku poems.
Mark has sent us photos from the West Coast of Scotland – Benmore Botanical Gardens in Argyll – and also the waterfall at Rouken Glen. A delightful balance of greens, reds and yellows.
this rushing wind
with nowhere to go
I pour another
bowl of tea
and listen to the rain
Kokuu
Have fun, doodle or come up with some creative words at our free online art community. Our regular relaxing activities – Creative Time – encourage you to have some creative enjoyment and keep in touch with us and find inspiration from other participants in Scotland and beyond!
It would be great if you would like to send us an image of anything you make, for us to show online if possible, please either 1. email us your image, 2. post to instagram with this tag #dandpstudio_creativetime or 3. post on our Facebook page.
Category: Art Tags: Community Groups, Creative Time
Creative time – From late Summer to early Autumn
28 August 2020
As the season gradually changes from summer towards autumn and we reach out for more jumpers and get cosy during the darker nights, let’s take a moment to notice the atmosphere and what going on around us. And write a haiku or short poem about it! Or just a few words about something that you saw or happened.
You could type some words, draw or brush the words, or use a drawing app on your phone or iPad. Here are some lovely examples from participants, thanks for sending to us 🙂
sharp breeze
change in the weather
sycamore ‘copters
Ken
dashing under the sycamore we take cover as
the august rain starts to pour
Blair (in response to Ken’s haiku)
Shodo
Look! A pheasant’s tail
I grasp the reigns of a horse
Night spills on parchment.
Laura
Gently squeezing the soft hair of the brush
I wash away the sumi traces as the autumn breeze beckons
Blair (in response to Laura’s haiku)
sand martins or swallows?
swooping through the sky
above the yet to ripen blackberries
M
giving up foraging as the thorns block our way
we take a moment to savor the mid afternoon pause
Blair (in response to M’s haiku)
one footstep
after another
– temple bell
Andy
bathed in soft light
I return to the cushion
Blair (in response to Andy’s haiku)
Broken Broken yet
perfect the Harvest Moon
Upon the Rivulet…
Mike
Slowly dancing purple shadows
Massage the rippling golden currents
Blair (in response to Mike’s haiku)
The wind
and a dream
The leaf on the breeze
Walking and watching
toying with composition
and colour
Misty morning
breeze bringing
golden music
Haiku by Alan, inspired by his sketchbooks and photos of the west coast of Scotland.
Wind hisses in the grass
Gorse branches rattle
Crowns of tangled thorn
Margaret
fading colours of flowers and grasses
effortlessly merge as I unhurriedly cycle
alongside sparkling canal waters
Blair
Have fun, doodle or come up with some creative words at our free online art community. Our regular relaxing activities – Creative Time – encourage you to have some creative enjoyment and keep in touch with us and find inspiration from other participants in Scotland and beyond!
It would be great if you would like to send us an image of anything you make, for us to show online if possible, please either 1. post on our Facebook page or 2. email us your image.
Category: Art Tags: Community Groups, Creative Time
Creative Time – doodling ice cream cones and lollies
10 July 2020
It’s been sunny again in Glasgow and the best way we think to enjoy the summery sunshine is to indulge in a satisfying ice lolly or cone. Let’s draw or photograph one of our favourites!
Or we can doodle a few in the one sheet – Blair was feeling quite greedy and drew eleven! Including his cherished choco almond covered vanilla, on the top right 🙂
He worked on an A3 sheet with water based felt tip colouring pens, and posca paint pens. You could draw and doodle with any pens or materials you like, on any paper and size, and you can find inspiration from an image of one online or use your imagination and any patterns you fancy. Or a bit of both like Blair did.
Drawing summer ice creams and ice lollies D+P Studio from Drawing and Painting Studio on Vimeo.
Our version of Drawing and Painting Studio’s latest challenge! Can you guess what our favourite ice-lollies are?
Posted by Parkhead Artist-in-Residence on Saturday, 11 July 2020
More of us are being at home now, so we are bringing you some regular fun and relaxing activities – Creative Time – to encourage you to have some creative enjoyment and stay in touch!
It would be great if you would like to send us an image of anything you make, for us to show online if possible, please either 1. post on our Facebook page or 2. email us your image.
This project is kindly supported by Glasgow Connected Arts Network
Category: Art Tags: Community Groups, Creative Time
Creative time – looking up at the wide sky
29 June 2020
Over the last few weeks and months there have been such a variety of different cloud shapes and colours in the sky, here are some sky themed snapshots we have taken, mostly over the north and west of Glasgow.
Please send us your photos of skies that you have looked at. They might inspire us to draw from them or write a few words too.
Even on an overcast wet day it can be soothing as well to look out the window at passing clouds, with a momentary glimpse of a seagull or duck if we’re lucky!
shaken by rain and wind from purple clouds
glittering green tree tops dance freely
buffeted sand martins dart, roll and dive above us
Your photograph below has a tranquil and settled mood Joan, thanks for sending this sunset photo from British Columbia. 🇨🇦
Thanks Alan for these dramatic and peaceful wide open photos of the West Coast of Scotland, as well as in the quiet sanctuary of a spacious Glasgow park. Some pictures below are from Sanna Bay looking towards the islands of Muck, Eigg and Rum.
Mark, thanks for the lovely colourful photos, we feel transported to places we love but haven’t been able to get to during the lockdown. These summery pictures are from around Glasgow and Crieff, thanks also to your family for sending some 🙂
Elaine, love your inspiring sky photos and artworks – really magical and full of energy and drama!! Thanks a lot for sharing these. It’s great how you have so much variety to your artworks 😀
Fascinating, uplifting and curious skyscapes from Margaret, the glowing lights really pull us in. The locations are to the north of Glasgow and from the silvery waters of Loch Lomond! Thank you.
More of us are being at home now, so we are bringing you some regular fun and relaxing activities – Creative Time – to encourage you to have some creative enjoyment and stay in touch!
It would be great if you would like to send us an image of anything you make, for us to show online if possible, please either 1. post on our Facebook page or 2. email us your image.
This project is kindly supported by Glasgow Connected Arts Network
Category: Art Tags: Community Groups, Creative Time
Creative Time – celebrating midsummer
19 June 2020
We hope you are enjoying the amazing light and the flourish of nature and energy that is midsummer – let’s celebrate it by making something!
This longest day of year – the Summer Solstice, this year it is the 20th of June – has been a festival since long ago, it is also called Litha or Gathering Day. Solstice means sun standing still. It is believed to be a magical time of the year by many, and we notice the extra creativity the sunlight generates.
We made a simple midsummer crown out of flowers from our local Glasgow park, this is a traditional midsummer activity that young people also love. It is so lovely to take the time to pick some flowers and tie them together this way, and enjoy wearing afterwards. And with social distancing you don’t need to feel too self conscious! Below is a link to give some tips on making the crown.
Also we drew some irises and buttercups, with a black pen line drawing.
We have made a colouring in sheet from this sketch if you have access to a printer and would like to work on colouring it peacefully.
Fell free to make any response you like!
Here is a Japanese woodcut print by Hiroshige of purple irises, thank you Margaret 🙂
By Utagawa Hiroshige I, published by Uoya Eikichi (1797 – 1858) – Artist (Japanese)
Details of artist on Google Art Project – qgFCjAmgF1vaxA at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level, Public Domain, Link
More of us are being at home now, so we are bringing you some regular fun and relaxing activities – Creative Time – to encourage you to have some creative enjoyment and stay in touch!
It would be great if you would like to send us an image of anything you make, for us to show online if possible, please either 1. post on our Facebook page or 2. email us your image.
This project is kindly supported by Glasgow Connected Arts Network
Category: Art Tags: Community Groups, Creative Time
Creative Time – looking up for the crescent moon
12 June 2020
We are often drawn to a super moon but miss the crescent, especially if we live in a more urban area. After the recent full moon we have a waning moon orbiting us just now – gradually thinning down to a slender crescent in the summery night sky. Thanks to Laura who has sent us inspiration for this activity with her mysterious origami crescent below.
For this activity you could do several things such as draw a moon shape, eclipse or cratery surface, or write a short poem about what the moon stirs in you or about a scene that has struck you. Above we made a really easy origami moon which is fun to follow if you would like to try it!
This is an instruction link to the origami moon Laura made, quite an intricate one which takes time, but captures something special about the graceful and enigmatic qualities of the dreamy celestial body.
It’s the sea with the moon light reflection on it at the bottom. It was interesting to do, trying to come up different ways for the different parts. So it would be different from the original drawing.
Materials which Elaine used:
Sketch book
Japanese Paper ~ Moon
Sketch pencils ~ Sea, eye, fisherman and fishing line
Watercolour pencils ~ Eye colour
Watercolour paints ~Fisherman
Fineliner pens ~ Eyelash and Fisherman
Parcel cardboard ~ backing for fisherman
Melted stretched plastic ~ Fishing rod
Cotton wool ~ Clouds
Stick of Glue ~ Glued the Moon, the drawing of fisherman onto cardboard, the fishing rod and cotton wool.
More of us are being at home now, so we are bringing you some regular fun and relaxing activities – Creative Time – to encourage you to have some creative enjoyment and stay in touch!
It would be great if you would like to send us an image of anything you make, for us to show online if possible, please either 1. post on our Facebook page or 2. email us your image.
This project is kindly supported by Glasgow Connected Arts Network
Category: Art Tags: Community Groups, Creative Time
Cats being cats – Creative Time
5 June 2020
Would you like to create an artwork, short poem, write something about cats, or take a photo of them? It could be about your own cat, or cats you have seen outside, or an imaginary feline.. 😻
One of our Creative Time participants Elaine kindly shared an artwork (sketchbook pastels drawing above) and some mysterious writing about her quirky delightful two cats:
“The oldest being Elliot, he’s a black cat and the youngest is Jasmine, she was a light grey with white fur. She actually looks like she’s wearing a tuxedo.
Although they were both house cats, they liked being in the back garden till they were comfortable going to the front garden. They run away when other people come near them.
Jasmine is the one that likes to bring in small gifts into the house. Elliot can’t as he too old and only has his front teeth. I sometimes watch them what they get up to. Like at Christmas they sit on the chairs at the table that’s set up. Elliot tried to clean me like a cat. Jasmine bringing a mouse into, but she’s trying to teach me how to catch it. Elliot licking my plate cos he likes the taste of an Indian mild chicken curry. Elliot sitting on my Mum’s buggy as if he’s about to drive it. Jasmine looks like she’s cleaning my bedroom window. Both of them hiding underneath a car to attack a dog walking by. Both of them sitting in my suitcase when I’m packing my suitcase. Jasmine being a bit picky as she couldn’t eat any fish cat food. Jasmine hiding amongst our clothes that are hanging on the clothes whirler when the birds are eating in our back garden.
There are times when I don’t think they’re cats. They like going out for walks with me before settling in for the night. I normally have to wait about midnight where there’s no people about and less traffic. When people do see me with Elliot and Jasmine, they can’t believe there’s no harness or leash on them. Even in winter they like sitting in the drive way with the front door open.”
🙂
Laura describes Pooka and her name 🙂
Pooka is a tortoiseshell coloured cat. They are know for being a bit feisty and stubborn and she very much lives up to this archetype – but then I am a red head so perhaps we are well matched! Tortoiseshell cats are considered lucky in many cultures, including old Celtic folklore which is coincidentally where her name comes from. A pooka is a Celtic mythical creature or ghost which may bring good or bad fortune with it. Hopefully I appease her enough to bring only good!
More of us are being at home now, so we are bringing you some regular fun and relaxing activities – Creative Time – to encourage you to have some creative enjoyment and stay in touch!
It would be great if you would like to send us an image of anything you make, for us to show online if possible, please either 1. post on our Facebook page or 2. email us your image.
This project is kindly supported by Glasgow Connected Arts Network
Category: Art Tags: Community Groups, Creative Time
Let’s make a samurai helmet for Children’s Day
5 May 2020
On May 5th in Japan it is Kodomo no hi こどもの日 – Children’s Day!
Origami is really popular in Japan just now with folk staying at home more, and this origami samurai helmet can be worn by children or adults alike, depending on the size.
Around the time of this day for children, families may display inside their homes a small helmet or samurai dolls symbolising bravery and strength, or Japanese iris flowers to keep evil at bay.
Start with a square piece of paper, you can use any paper as long as it isn’t too thick, mark it into a square and trim with scissors. We used coloured paper, and also tried A2 sized newsprint (in the video) which was the ideal helmet size for Blair to proudly wear.
You can use newspaper too, which is a good size for a samurai to be able to wear.
The first part of the video is drawing the pattern, which is optional so you can skip ahead a bit for the folding. Have fun and send us a pic of you wearing your kabuto 兜 helmet!
Watch this longer 5 minutes video demo:
Here are some delightful photos of participants in Japan and UK looking lordly in their samurai kabuto helmets!!
More of us are being at home now, so we are bringing you some regular fun and relaxing activities – Creative Time – to encourage you to have some creative enjoyment and stay in touch!
It would be great if you would like to send us an image of anything you make, for us to show online if possible, please either 1. post on our Facebook page or 2. email us your image.
Category: Art Tags: Community Groups, Creative Time, Origami, Young people's art
Fold your own origami sunshine – Creative Time
27 April 2020
The sun is becoming much stronger now and bringing life and colour. Can you make a sun out of paper only using origami folding? We folded a couple of versions, based on the youtube videos below.
Tip:
Start with square paper, or measure and cut to a square. It is much easier to fold lighter, thinner types of paper.
Try this easy sun origami:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJKq0N5qn0I
And if you fancy a more challenging paper folding, how about this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPvrr5LQ9EU
Thanks to these origami youtube paper folders for the inspiration 🙂
How about adding your own personal touch with patterns, colours or just some funky sunglasses?
Thanks Laura for sending your mysterious and geometric crescent moon. It is very spacy and points up to the heavens! 🌙
More of us are being at home now, so we are bringing you some regular fun and relaxing activities – Creative Time – to encourage you to have some creative enjoyment and stay in touch!
It would be great if you would like to send us an image of anything you make, for us to show online if possible, please either 1. post on our Facebook page or 2. email us your image.
Category: Art Tags: Community Groups, Creative Time, Origami, Young people's art