Overlapping group drawings - Wednesday 9th July 2015

The group worked together drawing across the paper with oil pastels, people could move around the picture and overlap each others work. Acrylic paints were used to fill in spaces and paint over the top of the drawing.

 Using pastels on sticks to reach across the paper.

Overlapping group drawing and painting - Wednesday 1st July 2015

The group began by taking turns to draw a mark on a large piece of paper, then worked all together using oil pastels and trying to respond to each others marks. Finally painting and mixing colours over the top of the drawing.

Paintings - Wednesday 24 June 2015

Today everyone did colour paintings. This began with colouring the paper or canvas with pastels and crayons, then with just the three primaries of process yellow, magenta and blue layers of colour were overlaid. Finally artists had the option of using tools like forks to scratch into the surface and reveal layers beneath. A very absorbing session.

Sculptural work with wire and wool 17 June 2015

Response to Rocket Artists performance at Tate Modern. Caroline asked to recycle the wool and tape used in a performance at Tate Modern at the launch of a book on Inclusive Arts Practice.  The intention is to photograph what we do with the wool and share that with the original Rocket artists from Brighton. So see what we did:

Preparing for the Purple Peach club night Wednesday 10 June

Purple Peach has a space theme and our contribution is  all about communication devices. You can see from Jon's head that he is wearing a strange accessory. It's an antennae, as a special head dress for Purple Peach. Meanwhile he and Andrew are writing messages in a coded language. 

Wednesday 27 May afternoon session

 Large free charcoal drawings: Symbols of what you like in the world

Wednesday 3 June. Symbols and hidden signs

For Gary and Joe it was the first experiment with making shapes for symbols