Disney Art Inspiration February

February whizzed by in a blur! We had a taste of Summer in Florida and was able to research ideas for our children's festival cafe, if you want great service it is the place to go.  

The Disney parades were inspirational and I came away with so many ideas for future art workshops.

Patterns - Colour  - Detail

Look at those legs!

Disney's It's a Small World was designed by artist Mary Blair, and her designs have inspired me to add my interpretation of her designs to the cafe tents.

Travelling gave me time to doodle in my notebook...

...and has inspired a new series of paintings called Wild Women. More news on these very soon.

Artists teaching the Arts - Creative Collaboration Em and I!

Me and Em started our Saturday creativity workshops together back in 2010, as we are both really passionate about creative learning.

I am really pleased that the very talented Emmaline Shaw is now able to bring her own creative skills to schools, through our workshops, as a drama and creative literacy specialist.   

So now we offer drama and creative literacy to our arts workshops.

Just so you know *We are excitedly jumping about shouting in the voice of Miranda's mum "Such fun!"*

We want children to be as excited about the arts as we are.  We want them to be inspired to start creating art, poetry or drama for themselves.

Em Shaw in da Studio

So we develop bespoke workshops, we can look at your curriculum and create some great art and drama or creative writing, which might link to that term's subject learning in some way.  Or not... it doesn't have to, it could just be for creativity's sake. 

Artists in Schools

I am grateful to have been able to share what I love doing, with 3 classes of 30 children this week.

We created our own versions of Escher's Metamorphosis, Zen doodled bunting, created clay tiles and portraits and fantasy caricatures in the style of Paul Kidby... all at 100 mph. Oh and a bottle top mural too.

Going back to school, I learnt that I love the music of Iceland's Sigur Ros, especially Hoppipopolla. Thank you Miss Hare for sharing.

I learnt that I love being my own boss and the importance of specialists going into schools to teach what they love.

A lot of skills were learnt at a fast pace and a lot of excitement and pride in what had been created.