Page 24 Ramshackle Blooms

Bears Block

Lino Relief Block

Watercolour Workshop 2016

Thank you to all those 11-14 year olds who attended the watercolour workshop in our local library.

We took the holiday programme theme of ‘Lost Worlds’ to generate ideas and spent a few hours working on individual pieces. The group learnt how to use masking fluid and some emergency ‘delete’ tricks in order to manage the sometimes unpredictable medium of watercolour.

It was wonderful to see so many innovative and varied approaches. I hope you will all continue to experiment with your own ways of painting with watercolours.

Watercolour Workshop 2016

Watercolour Workshop 2016

Watercolour Workshop 2016

Watercolour Workshop 2016

Watercolour Workshop 2016

Watercolour Workshop 2016

Watercolour Workshop 2016

Creativity Club

This year I have run a twice weekly Creativity Club at a secondary school. I would like to thank ALL the students who joined the club for their enthusiasm, both in discussion and practical art making. We had participants from a primary school and so the mixture of ages from Year 3 to Year 9 was great. In 2016 we hope to continue Creativity Club, perhaps extending to Year 12. Our Pinterest board CREATIVITY CLUB will continue to grow as a resource bank and collection of students’ work. Students who are already contributors to this board please feel free to upload work and pin inspiring pins over the holidays. I hope you all have a wonderful summer holiday and see you in Term 1 2016!

Creativity Club 2015

Page 35 from RAMSHACKLE BLOOMS

“As he grabbed handfuls of cold kaleidoscopic jewels he felt his son tugging with extreme urgency at the fur on his back.”

Page 35 from Ramshackle Blooms. The Treasure Chest.

Page 14 from Ramshackle Blooms The Whittled ‘A’ Piece

“It felt so good to be practical. Russet often considered herself useless and as you can see she was quite wrong.”

 

Page 14 from Ramshackle Blooms The Whittled ‘A’ Piece.

 

 

 

Page 17. Mummersette’s Musical Tea Caddy. Illustration from RAMSHACKLE BLOOMS.

Page 17 Mummersette’s Musical Tea Caddy. Illustration from Ramshackle Blooms.

 “. . . she had narrowly escaped a brutal shark attack and ran with all her might back to the campsite in a state of panic. The others were still out on their nature ramble, so to calm herself she took out her musical tea caddy.”

Page 25. Will-O’-The-Wisp. An illustration from RAMSHACKLE BLOOMS.

Page 25. Will -O’-The -Wisp. An illustration from Ramshackle Blooms.

Page 92. Edible Fungi, A Fool’s Guide. Illustration from RAMSHACKLE BLOOMS.

Page 92. Edible Fungi, A Fool’s Guide. Illustration from Ramshackle Blooms

Leopard Seal! Page 38 from ‘Ramshackle Blooms’

Page 38. Leopard Seal! Pen and ink drawing from Ramshackle Blooms.