Sylvia gave us an emergency mission for this after school session – to make a banner for charity fundraising for the work with the young people. So we speedily set to work, all hands on paint pens, and created a simple but catchy composition! The… Read More »NUC Cash for Kids banner!
Oil pastels were ideal to use to draw the textures of stones and wood from our collection of natural objects picked up from beaches, forests and mountains over the years! Looking into the intricate surface textures to find inspiration, we started working from one or… Read More »The world of natural objects – shell, stone and wood
Some of the older primary school children at the North United Communities group are already filling up their first sketchbook with fabulous creative drawings and crafty shapes! It was great to see them engaging with their books and feeling connected to them, in this session… Read More »After school drawing and developing sketchbooks
We used a few different approaches to draw some studio objects like rollers or palette knives, such as drawing round the object, or drawing holding two pens at once, and some sketching too. Yellow, beige, red, black and green coloured sugar papers with paint pens… Read More »Drawing studio objects – with some funny faces too ?
This workshop with the after school children of Ruchill was all about helping the young people express themselves through colour and line combinations in ways they maybe had not tried before. Working in their A4 sketchbooks and on single sheets, we didn’t use images to… Read More »Freedom in shapes and pattern at Ruchill
At the Ruchill Community Centre group the young people drew in their sketchbooks and did some crafty cutting and sticking. One simple way for the children to draw the quirky brushes was to draw around them first then work on the shapes inside, this was… Read More »Looking through the other side of the binoculars
At Ruchill NUC after school Primary group we doodled to begin with in the sketchbooks, then had a look at some autumnal leaves gathered outside, mainly sycamore and oak leaves. One of the boys made a rubbing from a leaf using pastel, while other children… Read More »This Is My Brain!
There were over twenty children and adults at the sunny summer workshops for the NUC, guided in creative graffiti and drawing and painting techniques. Many of the young people really engaged with the visual possibilities and were encouraged to work into and around sprayed and… Read More »Colour and energy – graffiti workshop
Drawing on painted paper to create a glossy sheen and black card with oil pastels, we had fun at Ruchill. We created planets, stars, astronauts, galaxies, interplanetary exploration, and deep space!
Children at Ruchill embraced the spirits of the South American and Asian mask theme. Animals and demons were at loose! We used card and coloured paper to make the simple masks with elastic bands connected to paper straps.
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