Animation Station for Wimbledon Bookfest – Sunday

Day 2 of the Animation Station for Wimbledon Bookfest saw us working on larger scale animations with Artist and Illustrator Amy Pennington, as well as consolidating our work on stop motion animations using the emotion app on the i-Pad. Click HERE for details of the Saturday workshop. We started by looking at animations made at […]

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Oct, 10, 2017
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Animation Station for Wimbledon Bookfest – Saturday

For the third year running we have partnered with Wimbledon Bookfest to run a book related art course as part of their 10 day festival on Wimbledon Common We have run Illustration, Zine Making courses and this year saw the return of the popular Animation Station. Artist and Illustrator Amy Pennington introduced the children to […]

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Oct, 07, 2017
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Paint the Great Outdoors – course 2 day 2

In the second day of our Painting outdoors course with artist Matthew Krishanu we went from painting together on a grand scale…. to some more focussed drawing activities, with one continuous line and the hand we don’t normally draw with… …and some tiny watercolours. Here we focussed on colour, skills for using watercolours […]

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Aug, 07, 2017
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Paint the Great Outdoors, course 2 – day 1

The second of our ‘Paint the Great Outdoors’ summer courses took place at South Park Gardens in Wimbledon. A beautiful little park full of wonderful stimuli for the children to work from. As the children arrived they made a personalised portfolio case to hold their work. We then unrolled a large piece of heavyweight […]

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Jul, 31, 2017
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Paint the Great Outdoors – day two

Day 2 of our Painting the Great Outdoors course saw artist Matthew Krishanu continue to inspire the children in observing their surroundings and using their imagination to explore the Great outdoors. To see the results of DAY ONE click the link We began the sunny morning with some warm up drawing activities to get our […]

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Jul, 27, 2017
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Paint the Great Outdoors – day one

This summer Painter Matthew Krishanu returned to Children’s Art School to lead another 2 days of Paint the Great Outdoors. This year we are running 2 courses one at Donhead Prep school and the other in South Park Gardens, Wimbledon – two beautiful and contrasting settings where children can paint outside and take advantage of […]

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Jul, 24, 2017
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The Art of Change – What, How and Should We? – Day 2

During day 2 of our Half Term Course – The Art of Change, our game based on decisions and consequences really started to take shape. Artist Sarah Carne took the children on a 2-day adventure into conceptual art with a political twist. Click the link to Day 1 to see how the course began. After designing […]

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Jun, 05, 2017
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Thinking in Three Dimensions – Day 2

During the second day of our 2 day course for the Easter Holidays, Thinking in Three Dimensions,we continued experimenting with building, joining, wrapping, painting, gold leafing and the children’s favourite ‘free making’ sessions. Take a look at DAY 1’s activities by clicking the link HERE We started the morning with painting the block and pebble […]

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Apr, 17, 2017
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Thinking in Three Dimensions – Day 1

This Easter holiday we have been Thinking in Three Dimensions with artist Abigail Hunt. Our 2-day sculpture course warmed up with a round of ‘Kims’ Game’ Children had to memorise and draw selected three dimensional objects after they were covered over. Abigail showed the children a wide variety of sculptures and installations to give them […]

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Apr, 12, 2017
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Animation Station – Animations are ready

We are happy to announce that all the films made at the Animation Station during February half term are available online to watch. You can read about what happened during the course by clicking the links below Animation Station Day One and Day Two We have compiled all the children’s works into 3 short showreels. […]

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Mar, 13, 2017
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