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Kids school and holiday art clubs

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….DSC_0051

to some more focussed drawing activities,  DSC_0004

with one continuous lineDSC_0006

 

and the hand we don’t normally draw with…DSC_0007

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…and some tiny watercolours.DSC_0021 DSC_0032 DSC_0034

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Here we focussed on colour, skills for using watercolours and using a tiny brush.DSC_0130 DSC_0046 DSC_0048 DSC_0049

Millie worked with a group to transform leaves into creatures.DSC_0054

 

And sticks into play thingsDSC_0063 DSC_0069 DSC_0088

and ducks, DSC_0093 DSC_0094 DSC_0095

and people!DSC_0097 DSC_0110

 

Meanwhile Matthew worked with the others on some textile paining. We mixed oil pastel with watery acrylic paint.

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Using tissues to dap away paint we revealed the oil pastel underneath.DSC_0060 DSC_0076 DSC_0080DSC_0083DSC_0084DSC_0085 DSC_0090 DSC_0099

They looked beautiful drying in the wind on our washing line!DSC_0101 DSC_0106 DSC_0112 DSC_0113

After lunch Matthew introduced more techniques for layering acrylics onto a canvas board.DSC_0123

We looked at more artists for inspiration…John Constable and Piet Mondrian.DSC_0129We used a drippy wash for a background
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Layered more watery paint so the colours ran.DSC_0141 DSC_0147

 

 

Then added thicket paint on top.DSC_0162 DSC_0174

building up the layers as we went.DSC_0186

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Some pieces came from our imagination, some were more expressive.DSC_0169DSC_0170

And some were very closely observed from the gardens around us.DSC_0172DSC_0173DSC_0175DSC_0183 DSC_0187

 

DSC_0196As we finished we used our primed boards from yesterday to paint portraits of the surrounding trees

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We pinned them to each tree.

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And in true South Park Gardens tradition we made some beautiful patterns on the pavements, using leaves and petals to inspire some rangoli style drawing.DSC_0177 DSC_0181

 

We then arranged all our work for our visitors to see. We were very proud of everything we had achieved.

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