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- May 22
- 1 min
Jubilee Art Classes
Come and join us for some Jubilee creativity! Get creative with a variety of activities inspired by Her Majesty the Queen! Activities...
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claypaperscissors
- Apr 15
- 1 min
Spring has sprung!
For our holiday workshops, we celebrated Spring with all it's colour and delight. Birdie wall hangings were created, egg totem poles...
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claypaperscissors
- Apr 11
- 1 min
Beautiful Batiks!
Batik is a wax resist and dying technique used to decorate fabric throughout South East Asia and India. It originated from Java in...
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claypaperscissors
- Apr 7
- 1 min
Abstract Art
Abstract art is non-representational. Colour, shape, line and pattern are explored and celebrated. Abstraction makes an exciting and...
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claypaperscissors
- Apr 7
- 1 min
Pretty Peacocks!
The children had requested that they learn about art from a different culture. Peacocks are the national bird of India. Peacock feathers...
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claypaperscissors
- Apr 7
- 1 min
Tin foil sculptures
You can do a lot with a roll of tin foil! We began by showing the children how to cut 3 slits into a flat piece of foil. By simply...
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claypaperscissors
- Mar 13
- 1 min
Negative Space
We have recently completed a big project on how negative space is used in art. The Yorkshire artist, Barbara Hepworth, believed that...
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claypaperscissors
- Mar 13
- 1 min
Birds & Nests - tweet, tweet!
To celebrate the beginning of Spring, we spent the afternoon creating both 2D & 3D pieces art inspired by birds and nests. Here are a few...
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claypaperscissors
- Feb 5
- 1 min
Snow & Ice
It's cold! Frosty mornings, mist and the odd blue sky. The children have been exploring a range of activities to create both 2D and 3D...
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claypaperscissors
- Jan 9
- 1 min
Dry point etching
Carrying on with our investigations into shape we have been using the printing presses in the studio. Printing can be a very messy...
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claypaperscissors
- Jan 8
- 1 min
Foxy & Frankie!
The artist Ben Nicholson had a cat called Foxy! Please go to the following website to see a lovely picture of them both: Who is Ben...
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claypaperscissors
- Jan 8
- 1 min
Ben Nicholson
Ben Nicholson was an artist who spent part of his life living and working in St Ives, in Cornwall. He produced still life paintings and...
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claypaperscissors
- Jan 7
- 1 min
Festive Fun!
We ran some festive classes before Christmas inspired by Julia Donaldson's book ' The Christmas Pine'. Here are a few photos to...
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claypaperscissors
- Dec 5, 2021
- 1 min
Abstract Art
We have had a very productive few weeks exploring abstract art. Balbinder Broadbent, a Leeds based artist, has an exhibition on at the...
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claypaperscissors
- Nov 21, 2021
- 1 min
Fabulous Fungi!
We ran a session for a group of 5-11 year old's yesterday afternoon, based on mushrooms. We recently discovered that there are between...
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