children workshop
Create in Clay: Faces & Masks for Kids with Ursula Waechter
8 April 2017
Time: 10am to 12pm
This workshop is a great opportunity for your child to be taught by professional ceramicist Ursula Waechter.
Looking at images of masks and faces for inspiration, your child will plan the design of their mask, with step-by-step instructions and handy tips.
Using red clay and pottery tools, they will find out how to make the features of the face, using just their hands.
The masks will then be fired for you and ready for collection, from City Arts, three weeks after the workshop.
Cost: £15 (all tools & materials included)
Age: Teens & Kids 8+ (unsupervised)
*Booking Your Child’s Place, email us: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Foam Marbling with Rachel Cheer
11 April & 24th July 2017
Time: 10am to 12pm
One of our most popular workshop is returning…
This workshop, with Rachel Cheer, is all about introducing youngsters to art, and older children to a new way of creating unusual artwork.
Shaving Foam Marbling is a great way to experiment with creating colourful and unique images on paper; the workshop is for all abilities.
Designed especially for parents/ carers and children to enjoy together. Your children must be supervised at all times.
Age: 4+ with a parent / carer
Cost: £8
*Booking Your Place, email us: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Foam Marbling with Rachel Cheer
Monday 24th July 2017, 10am – 12pm
One of our most popular workshop is back!
Foam Marbling, with Rachel Cheer, is all about introducing youngsters to art, and older children to a new way of creating unusual artwork, and of course letting adults have fun too!
Shaving Foam Marbling is a great way to experiment with creating colourful and unique images on paper; the workshop is for all abilities and ages.
Designed especially for parents/ carers and children to enjoy together, so bring the whole family/ team/ tribe and get stuck in!
~ Age: universal (with a parent / carer)
~ Cost: £8 (all materials included)
DRESS FOR MESS!!!
*Booking Your Place, email us: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Easter Flower Baskets with Kim Harrison
This Workshop is Cancelled
14 April 2017
Time: 10am to 12pm
Come along and join in the Family Fun on Good Friday 14th April 2017, with Florist Kim Harrison of ‘Lavenders’
Create your own Easter Flower Basket for your home, or maybe a special Easter gift.
Each group will design and make a basket, using beautiful, seasonal flowers from Holland.
*Each group will have their own work station:
~ After a brief introduction from me, we will start by fixing the oasis to the basket
~ Then we will start to green-up, by adding foliage to create the outline of your design
~ Everyone will then begin to add seasonal flowers
~ There will also be ribbons and decorations available
Age: 8+ with supervision
Cost: £25 per family (all materials included)
*Booking Your Place, email us: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Design, Create & Frame for Kids with Bonni Southey
13th May 2017
Time: 10am to 1pm
Trained initially as a fashion designer and illustrator, expressing a love of textiles and a ‘magpie’s eye’ Bonni Southey offers this wonderfully creative workshop for children.
The workshops are fun, relaxed, empowering and bring a meditative quality to the time spent creating the beautiful, finished artworks which result.
During the workshop, children will be:
~learning the design process
~experimenting with a wide variety of materials and text
~exploring colour and texture
They will then create their own framed picture, with Bonni’s guidance and helpful tips.
Age: 10+
Cost: £25 including all materials
*Booking Your Place, email us: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Manga Drawing for Kids: 5wk Course with Donna Lewis
Saturdays 3, 10, 17, 24 June & 1 July 2017
Time: 10am to 12:30pm
This five week course, with artist Donna Lewis, will cover Manga drawing, techniques and specialist equipment.
This course is designed for beginners and children with experience of drawing.
Each week, we will focus on different features and characters, and then apply these to your work-in-progress.
You will receive step-by-step instructions on how to design and create your characters, with helpful tips along the way.
In the final week, you will create a hand-drawn storyboard, using all of the elements and skills you have acquired during the course.
*As part of the course, you will receive a City Arts Drawing Pack.
Includes:
~ A3 Drawing Book
~ Conti a Paris HB Drawing Pencil
~ Staedtler Eraser
~ Black Fadeproof Fine Liner Pen
~ Bulldog Clip (for drawing on location)
~ Storyboards
Age: 10+
Cost: £100 (concessions £80 & payment plan available)
*Booking Your Place, email us: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Father’s Day Canvas with Sarah Moorcroft
SADLY, DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, WE HAVE HAD TO CANCEL THIS WORKSHOP.
11 June 2017
Time: 10am to 2pm
Come and design & create a unique, personalised canvas for your Dad or Carer.
You can paint, draw and use mixed media on your canvas – be as creative as you like!
This is a workshop for the whole family, all ages are welcome, with adult supervision.
Age: All Ages (with adult supervision)
Cost: £8 (all materials included)
Booking Your Place, email us, : info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
