Summer Scheme!!!

Today is the first day of our adult summer scheme!

The theme for art this year is 'The Wild West'!

Today we talked about the discovery of America and about the fact that to the Native American people it had always been their home.
We coloured a male or female figure to represent us in a collaged tribe, and made up a name for our characters! Sitting Rainbow, Dancing Rabbit and Running Pink Flamingo are just a few examples!


After lunch we played Bingo! It's always a favourite, especially as we play for prizes!


Let's here you all "Two little ducks, 22"
"Quack, Quack!!!"

Birthday Card

This morning the art group worked together and made this card.
We were so pleased with it we almost didn't want to send it!
It is going to a gentleman who was involved in setting up our charity in the 1960's, to celebrate his 80th Birthday!
We chose a garden theme for the front of the card because growth is something that is very important to us!

3D chapter pictures

Today we made these fantastic 3D scenes inside boxes!

Each box contains a picture to go with one of the chapters from the book Alice in Wonderland.

We talked about perspective and tried to make our pictures have a fore and background!

We used a frame and stuck things onto it so that they were in the front of the picture, it took lots of planning and discussion, we sketched our ideas out first.

We got there in the end and as always we're thrilled with the results of our efforts!

Oh we do like to be beside the sea side!

Wow what a beautiful day!!

We were determined to make the most of it so we got as many people as we could together and headed down to the beach this morning!

We drew targets on the sand and threw stones to score points, we made a giant sand castle, we sorted stones into piles of different colours... and then we had a picnic!

We loved walking bare foot on the cool sand!

What a great way to spend a morning!

Roly the Rainbow Trout!

Today with Ali I drew a fish after that I coloured it in. Then I painted a suncatcher. The fish is called Roly.
I made a sandwich for my lunch it was a good sandwich. Now I can go on the computer and look for Eternal Away In A Manger.
M.G.

The Hatters just keep getting madder!

Leopard and lion hat! GRROWWL!!!!





Team work on Sun Moon and Stars



Top Cat!
Deep Sea World

Spring has sprung!

Transport-tastic!

Flower GardensFantastic Fish creation!

Faces of Art Dance Video

This is the film of us dancing that was playing during our exhibition. It was projected almost life size!

We were filmed performing in our local park, we were very lucky with the weather that day!

When we choreographed the dance we talked about emotions and feelings, we wanted the dance to have our own movements in it, we each chose a move and the dance was built around them. Some of the movements are things that we do all of the time, things that express our personalities or give us comfort.

The filming was done by Sean Finnie editing by he and Ali, the film is in two distinct parts, the first act is set in an urban environment the second act is in a more natural setting.

The soundtrack is by Kode9 and Spaceape, we were thrilled when we were allowed to use this track, we think it fits perfectly with the dance, so thanks again to them!

Please also go to we are poets and experience our 'soundscape'