Animation Station- day 1

We kicked off to a great start with day one of the Animation Station, led by artist and Illustrator Amy Pennington, supported by artist Veena Scialo, a recent animation graduate and another student of illustration and animation. Our very well qualified team began this chilly day with a warm up in the gym! Amy then talked […]

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Feb, 13, 2017
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Festive Focus – day 2

Things got a little more festive in the second day of our ‘Festive Focus’ Photography course. Click here to see Festive Focus day one We began the day by looking at some images of Christmases past and present, sourced from photographic archives. Using print outs and photocopies of the photos we made yesterday, we altered […]

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Dec, 20, 2016
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Festive Focus – day 1

To kick off day one of Festive Focus, our Christmas holiday art course for 2016, Marysa Dowling introduced the children to her own photographic practice. They looked at how different parts of our body can express emotion – i.e. the hands. They looked at Marysa’s ongoing project, The Movement of an Object, in which Marysa […]

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Dec, 19, 2016
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‘Zine’ in a weekend – day 2

Artist Ania Bas led the second day of our literary inspired course in collaboration with Wimbledon Bookfest. On Day One (click for more details) we concentrated on what makes a charismatic character and on Day two we looked at what makes a sensational storyline. Our findings are to be compiled into a ‘Zine’ aimed at […]

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Oct, 10, 2016
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Fleeting Images: Action and Animation – course 2, day 2

In day 2 of our second summer course we continued to think about the extraordinary acton of the human body. To see day one or course 1 click the blue links. We began with a reflection on the previous day’s work, then Viyki explained how to translate yesterdays experiments into a flick book. We then […]

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Aug, 10, 2016
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Fleeting Images: Life drawing, action and animation – day 2

Day 2 of our Life drawing and animation course saw Viyki Turnbull working further with the children on how to capture movement in drawing and sculpture. Today we concentrated on skills for animation To view Day 1 click here. We began the morning by looking at some flick book animations created by children – sourced from […]

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Jul, 26, 2016
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Fleeting Images: Life Drawing and Animation

Artist Viyki Turnbull led day one of our Summer Art Course which focussed on drawing the human body in movement. We know children love to draw cartoons, so taking this as a starting point we aim to give more depth to their drawings by focussing on looking at the human form in movement, whilst keeping […]

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Jul, 25, 2016
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Collaborative Design and Build – day 2

Day two of Collaborative design and build – our 2 day architecture course. To see a description of day one click here Children revisited their ideas of architecture in drawings and compared them to their initial thoughts – they began to incorporate elements from their own structures […]

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Mar, 30, 2016
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Collaborative Design and Build – day 1

Architect and designer James Sale from Collaborative Design and Build joined us for two days of large scale making, where we learnt about the principles of architecture and design. Back in February I visited James in his vibrant East London studio/workshop where the plans for this holiday course were borne. We began the morning by […]

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Mar, 29, 2016
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How to be a Visual Storyteller – day 1

Illustrator Amy Pennington joined us once more to run our popular illustration course. Here is Amy during the warm up – demonstrating a drawing activity. …and helping them to visualise characteristics! (sorry Amy…couldn’t resist!) The children warmed up bodies and fingers with a few activities. We began with a collaborative drawing exercise where we […]

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Feb, 15, 2016
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