Thursday 20 December / One session: 10.30am-12.30pm
Education Room / £5.50
Aimed at children and families of all ages
(children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult)
Give your gifts a unique look this Christmas by designing your own wrapping paper. Join artist Kate Whyley for this fun workshop during which you will create your own Christmastime pictures and then use them to print colourful designs on paper.

Mobile phone charms

Bag and Mobile phone charms

Monday 13 August / One session: 10.30am-12.30pm
Education Room / £5.50
Family Workshop. Children under 8 must be accompanied.
Personalise your bag, lunch box, iPod or mobile phone with a brilliant charm to suit your individual taste. Create twinkling trinkets or crazy adornments; what ever you like this fun workshop will have you creating hanging accessories like no other!

Jewellery ideas!

Jewellery making

Friday 10 August / Education Room / £5.50
Two sessions: 10.30am-12.00pm. Aged 6 and under & 1.00 – 3.00pm. Aged 7 and above. Under 8’s must be accompanied by an adult.
Design and create your very own pieces of jewellery during this fantastic workshop with artist Kate Whyley. Use all kinds of beads, gems, stones and real jewellery findings to create beautiful necklaces, earrings and bangles to suit your personality this summer.

Insectopia: Summer activity '07

Insectopia

Monday 6 August / One session: 10.30am - 12.00pm
Education Room / £5.00
Aimed at children aged 6 and under. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Create springy bouncy colourful bugs from all kinds of fabulous bits and pieces during this fun junk modelling sculpture workshop with artist Kate Whyley.

Summer workshops '07

Beach Bags

Friday 3 August / One session: 10.30am-3.30pm
Education Room / £15.00
Children aged 8 and above.

Are you ready for the beach this summer? Create your own fabulous unique summer bag with designs, patterns, decorations and accessories of your choice. Bag provided. With artist Kate Whyley. Wear old clothes and bring along a packed lunch.

Busy, Busy, Busy!

Wow its been a busy term. Thus the lack of time to report back on Artistic practices!
Loveart has this term been providing an art service at one local primary school. For one afternoon a week the school has run a 'university' for the children: Children are given a range of creative learning opportunities and subscribe to one for 1/2 a term.

Loveart provided a 1/2 term scheme of work for improving artistic skills and art history knowledge for a group of 30 children, ages 5-11, working together. The university which has now run for a term provides the school with professionals delivering key skills and teachers with ppa time.

Topics covered included: Surrealism, Pointillism, Pre-Raphaelites, Collage, Abstraction, Monoprinting and resulted in a large scale display work using all the children's work.

Designer gift wrap!

Christmas Wrapping Paper

Wednesday 20th December
Three sessions: 10.00am – 11.00am, 11.45am – 12.45pm and 1.30pm – 2.30pm
Education Room / £3.50 per child
Aimed at children and families of all ages
(Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult)
Give your gifts a unique look this Christmas by designing your own wrapping paper. Join artist Kate Whyley for this fun workshop during which you will create your own Christmassy pictures and then use them to print colourful designs on paper.

Future Graphic Designers

Southampton Solent University (UK), students on a graphics and illlustration course took part in an activity planned to encourage thinking about movement and colour in advertising culture.

The activity posted above involved life drawing, using this as a starting point, students developed shapes from these sketches to influence an advertisement made to stimulate a chosen emotion/feeling in the viewer.

Traininee Teachers

Trainee teachers from King Alfreds College Winchester came along to the gallery to see what resources would be available for them to use in the future.

The following steps allow for this printmaking process to be accesible for children of all ages:

Prepare an image to print on A4 white paper
Have ink/rollers ready to use

Model printmaking process to a group around a central table
Have print stations on each table.

1) Engrave pattern onto pressprint tile.




2) Roll on first colour & print onto coloured sugar paper twice*

3) Engrave onto tile again, take out pieces of the tile leaving areas of previous colour.

4) Register tile with first print - place tile face down, creating final print.

* By creating two prints of the first colour but only 'finishing' one print using a second colour, the children can clearly see the development of the process.

Surrealism continued...

More Surreal Activity...

Just a few images to encourage the children in the work they did today!.... Well Done :) I especially love the bat, butterflies and other surreal monsters you created!

Surreal Activity!

This week St Marks primary school were investigating some interesting and familiar techniques invented by Surrealist artists to create some very bizarre creatures and scenes! The children practised 3 techniques invented by artists from the Surrealist movement:

Two 'automatic' drawing techniques
1 - PVA used as an adhesive for the layers of sand that were added.
2 - A random inked pattern duplicated to leave a symetrical design.
And Frottage (rubbing)
3 - Rubbing over textured surfaces creating basic shapes.

Resulting in: Dancing Poodle's, humming birds, bulls, dragons,seaguls, butterflies etc, etc...!

Colourful mosaic

In a Haze
Friday 25thAugust / One session: 10.30am - 12.00pm
Education Room / £4.00 [£3.50F]

Family Workshop. Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.
Join artist Kate Whyley for this workshop inspired by the Dan Hays exhibition. Bring your family to the gallery, see the show and create a colourful mosaic landscape enthused by the artist's own beautiful paintings.

Book by calling the box office on: 023 8063 2601.

If you book your tickets over the telephone, using a debit or credit card, a £1 booking fee is charged per ticket or 50p per ticket for tickets priced under £5.00 (C = Concessions F = Free Leisure Card Holders)

Screenprinting

Designer T-shirts
Tuesday 8th August 10.30am-3.30pm
Held at Southampton City Art Gallery: Education Room / £15.00
Aimed at children aged 8 and above.

This fantastic day combined two of the galleries most popular workshops: screen printing and T-shirt design. Artist Kate Whyley helped children create a unique T-shirt personalised with their very own design that they printed.

Screenprinting is a wonderful way to introduce children to the world of marketing, design, colour and trends not to mention a great printing method. Book a session : info@loveart.co.uk