small world animations

Creative Club

I can’t believe we’re past half term already! The first four Creative Club sessions produced some lovely work in January and February, from moody charcoal scenes to eggbox puppets! Take a look 🙂

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”

Workshop Photos 2017-18

Lots of lovely pictures from the last year-eighteen months or so 🙂 Thanks everyone!

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”

Arty Holiday Activities

I won’t be running very many workshops over the hols as i’m busy with other things, but here’s a list of very creative art activities for kids from the Book Trust called “Staring Into Space”. You can download them by clicking on the link below, have fun!! “Staring into Space” Art Activities

Story Scene at Magic Carpet Honiton

Everyone had a lovely time making houses, trees, telephone boxes and ice cream vans for the “story scene” we made last Thursday. After building our version of what eventually looked like Torquay (!!) we made some people and cats and created stories around it.

Comics Club Summer 2018

The Comics Club at Bishopsteignton Primarycame to an end a couple of weeks ago, so I’ve made up a pdf of most of the comics the kids made and you can download it here! comics club

Making the animation for Shimmer and Disappear by Pram

I was very chuffed when Pram asked me to make an animation for a track from their new LP Across the Meridian. I took some pictures while making, so here they are below… The whole process from a-z was great fun, even when everything fell over :), and it’s a brilliant track too. Pram’s newContinue reading “Making the animation for Shimmer and Disappear by Pram”