'Collage Self-portraits' (Museum Style) An easy-peasy arty activity for ALL age & abilities..

'Self Portraits in Collage Museum Style'

We had a ball at our after school class this evening.  Our session was based around representing ourselves on paper and what moods we wanted to show ourselves in.

Following a bubbly chat about why we make self-portraits and what's good about them (they are cool, you can hang them on the wall, they look pretty, people want to make themselves look great, they are great gifts, etc, etc) we set to work on ourselves!

The children worked really hard over this session which lasted 1hr & 15mins.  Full to the brim of activity and really quite movement based, we worked hard from start to finish.  I made some really simple 'frames' on some brown paper and whited out the centre to give the children a 'space to fill'

this worked really well and encouraged the children to work bigger than they might naturally.

There are some superb pictures here, well done indeed and am really really looking forward to repeating this exercise with my second school of the week.

Well done everyone!  Hints & tips on how easy it is to do this exercise at home underneath the photo's 

Much love, Sam x 

How to do this at home:

This is an utterly fantastic activity to do en famille on a rainy afternoon.   

You will need:

• Magazines, newspapers, coloured papers, etc.
• Glue.  (a glue-stick is fab)
• Large sheet of paper for the frame.  
• Scissors.

Hints & Tips:

• Don't be tempted to work to small!!  Give yourself/your child a big frame space to work in.  This promotes creativity.
• I used some brown packing paper as I have a massive roll for sending out, which I taped around the edges on the back to make it more durable - we definately don't want any rips!

We had a ball at yesterday's 'Acrylic Painting for All' art workshop. Our best one yet!

Having worked muchly with children recently I was a little nervous at teaching adults again!  I needn't have worried  at all as not only did everyone that came happen to be absolutely lovely, they were also ready, willing and gung-ho to get going with the wonderful paints that are acrylics.

We set up the hall on Friday night as is normally the case.  However on this particular eve the light that flooded into the hall was just divine, so much so that I stayed on for an extra hour or two to finish a large scale floral work that I've been struggling with recently.  I loved it and the painting was completed.

We tried things a little differently this time with the food for our day.  Our wonderful family friend Andy is an outstanding cook and he very kindly produced lunch for us.  Cor, the menu was fantastic.  All home-cooked we enjoyed a Salmon Quiche served with dauphinoise potatoes & a watercress salad (along with warmed french bread) I can't tell you how delicious it was!  Following that we had cheeses, chutneys and oatcakes.  At high tea we enjoyed a home-made lemon cake which disappeared very very fast along with lashing of tea.  We truly felt utterly treated which was exactly our mission!

Below are some photo's of our day to enjoy.  If you would like to be kept in the know with our new workshops as they are announced, please email me on samantha@artypops.com

Much love, Sam x 

                               

Our 'Artypops Easter Holiday Art Workshop' was a rip-roaring success....

     

Tuesday 9th April saw us in a fab new venue here in our village of Overton, Berrydown Sports Pavillion.  We had a superb day of making, doing, dancing, running and playing.

The activities we settled on were:

1.Painting Monsters & Animals onto beautiful pieces of driftwood.

2.
Beading necklaces.

3.
Making our own people key rings .

4.
Crafting Clay Birds avec feathers!

5.
Drop & Draw! Huge sheets of paper to draw around ourselves...if we have time.

Our day was packed full of creativity.  'Drop & Draw' was fantastic fun, an example of which was upon the call, we instantly dropped and awaited instructions - one of which was to draw the face of the person nearest to you - brilliant fun!

All the babes had a fab day and thank you to all the parents for your lovely letters and comments expressing so.  More workshops coming soon.

Samantha