Art Courses 2012

Artist led courses for adults of all levels of experience at Chisenhale Art Place Education studio on Thursday evenings,7-9.30pm.

Fee for six week courses: £90 payable at first class.

Drawing into Painting.

A six week drawing and painting workshop.

Starts January 12th.

We will create paintings developed from a range of drawing media and techniques, and use these to inspire new work. We’ll also look at contemporary and historic drawings.

Chisenhale Art Place  64-84 Chisenhale Road E3 5QZ

For more information please contact Kate Hardy at:  k.hardy@kcc.ac.uk

Lots of tea and chat provided

All workshops are Free, everyone welcome, including beginners.

Jon George started with the first two weeks, showing the group an unusual technique of using a glue and chalk mixture to prepare a surface on which to paint. The mixture was used to cover a wood background, layer by layer until enough was built up to provide a smooth surface making it lovely to paint on. In the second workshop the group learnt how to make a special paint mix, produced using colour pigment, egg yolk and water called egg tempera. The richness in colurs created was wonderful and much appreciated by all.

Kevin Harrison’s three week workshop embraced the enormous fun of using wood to make sculptures.  All enjoyed the knocking and sawing and hands on experience of working with wood, creating some astounding works of art.

The last workshop session for this year will be led by Charlotte Mew, so no doubt there will be a wonderful surprise in store for everyone. The workshops are open for all ages and abilities and are a rare opportunity for everyone to experience professional art making techniques from experienced artists.

All welcome.

Last year in the autumn term at Lawdale school, Lisa Nash, visual artist and film maker created a  five minute film “The Vampire Bullies” with teacher Justine Kavanagh and Year 5 children,  because of  the huge success of this film project, the school starts it’s second film project this term.

In the first week, the group discussed their experience of film making before they started to brainstorm about what kind of film they would like to make.  Will it be a thriller a mystery, or maybe a romance?  As the children’s school year will be based on the London Docklands, they decided to somehow tie that in with their theme for the film.

Many of the children were interested in how filmatic “green screens” work, so Lisa decided to give them experience of how to use it for one of the sessions. The children had enormous fun using this technique, and were impressed with the special effects that can be created and are eager to use it for their film project.

When it came to developing the story there was much debate – but by the third session a story soon began to appear. They then had to develop the characters and agree on the final script. Then, despite having the theme, characters and the script there still was no title, so in recent sessions  the group worked on possible titles.  They also  rehearsed parts of the script, before auditing for the main six characters before Lisa and Justine.  After the final casting, in which everyone was happy with the outcomes,  attention was turned to costumes.

The days have been long, but everyone agrees they don’t want to go home at the end of each day, even though their brains are frazzled…….

Shooting will start soon!

Join artist Emma Gunningham for a six week course exploring the numerous possibilities of collage making and discovering ways to link it to painting. Emma keeps her classes small, so she can work individually with each student.  The end results will always be varied, as students follow their own themes.   You will need to bring your own paints, brushes and canvas, but some materials will be supplied. The six week course costs £90, payable on the first evening.

To find out more or to book a place contact Emma directly tel 07940 563 063  or  emma@salamanda.net

The popularity of’ ‘The Art Of Growing’ workshops continues; for the past six weeks we have had the benefit of Malcolm Jones and Alicia Paz’s wealth of artistic knowledge. The first four workshops were held by Malcolm Jones and continued with developing our knowledge of landscape painting which had first been introduced to us at the beginning of this year.  In the first session we spent the morning scouring the local area for inspiration; some of us took photos while others made same sketches of favourite views.  Some also brought pictures from personal collections to incorporate into their work and created some amazing imagined landscapes.  The end results were Fantasy Worlds that contained not only real places from both past and present but also imagined places.  It was astonishing how the work produced reflected such diversity.

In the last two weeks we were introduced to Alicia Paz’s extraordinary technique of collage.  Again, strange and wonderful worlds were created; this time using mixed mediums of images cut from magazines, newspapers and painting, combined with the use of  acrylics and pastels.  The theme we used in the first week was trees, a subject which is a favourite with Alicia Paz.  We explored the influence trees have on both our myths and everyday life.  The work we created reflected these influences and produced fascinating paintings.  For the last session we used the same technique but this time to create portraits.

Everyone attending these workshops expressed how much they valued the sessions and felt priviliged for having the opportunity to learn from such skilled artists.

We are a free, friendly, community art club facilitated by professional artists from Chisenhale Studios who run workshops in drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking. We also take short, inspirational artist led walks exploring the local parks and canals. New members of all ages welcome, including beginners.

Wednesdays 10am-1pm

September 7^th, 14^th, 21^st and 28^th      

Join painter Malcolm Jones for a four week project using photographs and paint to explore our personal response to landscape.

October 5^th and 12^th

Join artist Alicia Paz in workshops exploring our mystical relationship to trees using paint and collage.

After a successful Private View of the work produced from last years workshops at the View Tube, the Art of Growing began anew on the 20th of July with Emma’s portrait classes. First for practice, we sketched Barbara who kindly offered to model for everyone, and who was so patient she stayed in position for well over an hour. Everyone used charcoal in order to get the gist of shading and outline. Emma took photos of us which would be the source for reference for our self portraits. The following week, with the aid of  a projector, we drew an outline of ourselves using the previous weeks photographs straight on to the canvas. We then started the process of painting using acrylic and brand new paintbrushes which were a joy to use. This week some of us who were struggling with the shading learnt the technique of turning the painting upside down which takes the attention of the eye away from the outline on to the detailing. Some had already completed their portraits,especially Barbara who initially without anyones notice began doing caricatures of everyone and once we realised we all had a good laugh!

Join professional artist Kate Hardy for six Thursday evening workshops to explore varied visual subject matter, and examine methods of working with built up colour used by contemporary painters using watercolour, acrylic, oils and collage. Participants will make six paintings, using a range of media and techniques exploring  additive layers of colour and mixed media.

The workshops will take place on 15, 22, 29 September and  6, 13, 20 October 2011 from 7-9.30pm.  The fee for the six workshops is £90 payable on the first evening.

Contact Kate for more details on 07946814317 or katehardybow@hotmail.com.

On Friday 30th September, Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd October , our 40 artists studios opened to the public, alongside the two arts organisations, Chisenhale Gallery and Chisenhale Dance Space.

Additionally, family and adult art workshops took place on Saturday and Sunday and there were guided tours of the artists’ studios both days.

Saturday 1st Oct

1-2pm Painting workshop in the Studio Education Space.  Artist Uliana Apatina and members of the our community “Art of Growing Club” ran a free drop-in workshop exploring painting to music.  Suitable for adults and accompanied children.

2-5pm Family Day at Chisenhale Gallery.  Join the Gallery for a free artist led drop-in art workshop  inspired by James Richards’ exhibition.  Suitable for all ages but children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

Also from 2pm in the Studios, there were guided tours running through the afternoon when artists gave short talks in their studios about their work.

 Sunday 2nd October

1-2pm Painting workshop ran again in the Studio Education Space, with artist Uliana Apatina and members of the our community “Art of Growing Club” .

2-4pm Family Day at Chisenhale Dance Space. Leading professional dance artists delivered a dynamic free workshop for ages 7-12 years in the iconic dance space.