Author Archives: small world animations

Interactive Digital Media at Magic Carpet

An art-technology mashup! First, the guys drew a jungle-forest backgound, and then, separately, created some fierce  animal characters which we cut out and animated against a green screen. Then, through the magic of digital media, we overlayed the animation on the background, and projected the whole thing onto a screen and, as you can see,!Continue reading “Interactive Digital Media at Magic Carpet”

Black and White Workshop – Magic Carpet Honiton

Today we explored “black and white” (and a bit of colour!). Everyone got into the idea, from black and white animals to old silent movie stars, and made some beautiful large-scale charcoal and chalk drawings. In the afternoon we had a look at op-art and made some zebras on zebra crossings (which made our eyesContinue reading “Black and White Workshop – Magic Carpet Honiton”

Bishopsteignton Comics Club end of term pdf

So to kick off 2019 here’s the pdf from last term’s Comics Club at Bishopsteignton Primary (see below). It’s the last for a while, as Comics Club will now morph into Creative Club, which will feature a wider range of creative activities including puppets, drawing and illustration, cameraless photography, kites, and clay modelmaking 🙂 comicsContinue reading “Bishopsteignton Comics Club end of term pdf”

Rocket Comics At Teignmouth Library!

What a brilliant, creative workshop! Thanks to Cathy and Caroline for helping out and to the children and their families for coming and getiing into the activity so enthusiastically,. And the result was some rather lovely, unique rocket comics 🙂

Comic Characters at Teignmouth Library

School’s out so it’s time once again for the Summer Reading Challenge! 🙂 This year the theme is “mischief makers” (as in Dennis the menace and Beryl the Peril), so Teignmouth Library have asked me to run a couple of comics workshops to celebrate. Pictures of today’s workshop are below and I’ll be back onContinue reading “Comic Characters at Teignmouth Library”