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Kids school and holiday art clubs

Tricking the Eye

The second of our Easter Holiday Art Courses was all about creating illusions, led by artist, Karen Logan. We began by looking at Victorian thaumatropes for inspiration.

Thaumatrope bird in a cage

Thaumatrope

We then made thaumatropes of our own. We used themes like a robber behind bars and a tree and leaves to create the illusion of a single image when the thaumatrope was spun.

Making at thaumatrope at Children's Art School holiday art course with artist, Karen Logan

We then looked at another Victorian invention, the zoetrope, which showed how people started to think about animation.

Zoetrope, used by the Children's  Art School

A Zoetrope

We then made drawings for our own animations, working with 13 frames and thinking about the principles that we needed to follow. One of the most important was that action needs to begin and start in the same frame.

Sketching for a zoetrope at the Children's Art School holiday workshop with artist, Karen Logan

When the drawings were ready it was time to create our own zoetropes. We made them from wire, carboard, paper plates and string. They worked surprisingly well.

Making zoetropes at the Children's Art School Easter Holiday Art Club with artist, Karen Logan

Making zoetropes at the Children's Art School Easter Holiday Courses with artist Karen Logan

After lunch we created characters and events, and made puppets with moving parts to describe them.

Shadow puppet show at the Children's Art School holiday art course held by artist, Karen Logan

And we rounded off a busy day of inventing, making and tricking the eye, with a series of our very own shadow puppet shows.

Behind the scenes at the shadow puppet show at the Children's Art School Holiday Course