2 Creative Life drawing classes for teenagers who want to explore techniques for sketching the body in mouvement.

We will work with models from various physical backgrounds in dance, theatre and sports.
These classes are great for exploring the physicality of Manga & comic characters.

The workshops are an exploration of movement, rhythm and shapes through life drawing. The workshop present an opportunity to experiment with various mediums - pencil, chalks, ink and markers -  and simple techniques through guided exercises.

They combine straightforward life drawing with less conventional methods: like action drawing, improvisation and blind composition, quick sketching with both hands, working in pairs....

the session are done in music and participants interact with the model. They follow some simple movements, take the pose of the model, initiate the beginning of a movement to be continued by the model.

The process draws on Body memory, or recall, which is involved in the gestures we make when we draw, dance, and animate.
Working directly from the model and interacting with her/him , time and memory are linked with action in space. There is no time to be conscious of memory or to be saturated with negative inner dialogues.

Thu 5 & Thu 12 August, from 10 am to 1 pm

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The Summer Holidays are nearly upon us: A wonderful time for adventure and exploration. A time to let your imagination run free, to create, to draw and paint, to experiment.

Painting Explorers' Art Workshops for the Summer 2010

2 MANGA WORKSHOPS

Designed for those of you who spend your days drawing and imagining stories and want to learn to explore how Manga artists create characters, develop a story or compose a scene.

The workshops will help you get more confident. We will sketch the body in mouvement, look at composition, understand angles and colours, work on story telling, and integrate images with dialogue and sounds, investigate frames, fonts, speed lines....

Create your story and share it with your friends, on line in the Manga Gallery!

Mon 2, Tue 3 & Wed 4 August, from 10 am to 3 pm

Mon 9, Tue 10 & Wed 11 August, from 10 am to 3 pm

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2 MOVEMENTS & MARKS CLASSES for Teenagers

2 Creative Life drawing classes for teenagers who want to explore techniques for sketching the body in mouvement.

We will work with models from various physical backgrounds in dance, theatre and sports.
These classes are great for exploring the physicality of Manga & comic characters.

Thu 5 & Thu 12 August, from 10 am to 1 pm

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We are approaching the end of Term: This is a time for celebration, a time to show new work!
Click on the images below and they will lead you to some beautiful artwork.

CHARACTERS IN CONTEXT

We will explore composition, colour, backgrounds, and learn how to create the environement that will be the setting of the action, how to tell a story in a single picture, thus bringing our characters to life.

Tues 6, Wed 7 & Thurs 8 March,

from 10 am to 3 pm

Inspired by the 'The Book of Imaginary Beings' of Jorge Luis Borges, informed by real animals and people, we will explore the images that are evoqued by the Sphinx, the Cheshire Cat, the Chimera or the Eastern Dragon, we will combine various elements of different animals and create fabulous monsters.

During this workshop, you will experiment with sketching from life at the Natural History Museum. You will then use your sketches and create drawings of your Fabulous Beast , before making a 3d model.

Crossbreed after Kafka

Unicorn

The complete series of illustrations for The Book of Imaginary Beings was done by the graduate students in the Department of Illustration and Art of the Book at the Vakalo School of Art and Design in Athens, Greece.

This workshop coincides with the 'Myths & Monsters' exhibition at the Horniman Museum.

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