Beginning the Arts Award Silver - Took Part in an Exhibition

Oasis Academy Media City Pupils Take Part in an  Exhibition at Eccles Community Art Gallery from 18 June until 9 July, 2016, Eccles Town Centre, Greater Manchester.

Four of the original pupils who took part in the workshops run by the artists/tutors during the Autumn Term of 2015,  have been working towards an exhibition of their own in a local community gallery.The workshops offered to a dozen pupils were inspired by some of the ordinary objects from the Exhibition "Out of the Ordinary" of Colin Rodney Burrows' paintings,

The remaining pupils have been developing their painting techniques during the Spring and Summer Terms this year, and, as part of the Silver Arts Award, they have worked together to arrange an exhibition for themselves of their current art work.

Olivia Mankondo, may have been inspired by the Egyptian history of beadmaking when she decided to paint a portrait of an Egyptian Princess.  Tim Broughton, not content with merely showing the pupils how to make beads, was determined to explain the history of jewelry and other artifacts, crafted by the Egyptians.  He even brought in a piece of ancient pottery which had been excavated by his daughter in the North West of England.
















Yoelle Lalaye took a bold approach and decided to paint an impressive snake entwining a female figure on a large. canvas.  Her first inspiration was a reference to evil battling good,  however the title was changed to "Trapped Mankind".  Yoelle obviously took note of the painting workshops, whereby attention was given to the importance of interesting backgrounds, and she has spent many hours painting the individual scales on the snake.


                                                                         



Fanni Jori also paid particular attention to her rainbow-coloured background on the painting below,  Her painting was inspired by her feelings of happiness and the fact that she loves butterflies.  They are so beautifully painted, that she was encouraged to name the painting "The Beautyflies".






Destiny Jones is a member of the team which arranged the exhibition, although she has been busy with prior commitments and was unable to undertake much painting.  She is represented in the exhibition by one of her best works from a previous workshop,  This work features an image of a pendant or a brooch, made by working on several different coloured layers of felt, which have been sewn together and a design drawn on the top black layer of felt, and stiched around the outlines.  The felt has been cut away to reveal the image in all its glory!

                                                                   


A Poster to advertise the pupils' participation in the Exhibition was devised by the whole team and displayed around the school.

Out of the Ordinary - An Arts Award Bronze Course in Clay Bead-making with Tim Broughton

A Course in Clay Bead-making contd.

Tim Broughton, the tutor,  is a jeweler who has been in the trade for 45 years and who now works from a studio in Swinton, Greater Manchester,as well as teaching courses in jewelry and delivering workshops in clay.  A graduate of the University of Salford, Tim also has an active interest in archaeology and antiques.

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Each pupil had a different idea of how to colour their beads.  A set of ceramic paints was provided, as well as cocktail sticks on which to place the beads while they were being painted.  They could then be stuck into some clay, as a support, whilst the paint dried.

Some of the pupils chose to paint the beads with a small paintbrush, although another had the idea of pouring a selection of coloured paint onto some clean water in a small pot.  She then dipped the beads into the the water, with the aid of cocktail sticks, or wire could be used,  and collected paint from the surface, producing a marbled effect.  A variety of paint effects was achieved by their experiments.

Some of the students decided to use the negative spaces and make medallions.

The beads were threaded onto copper wire in the first instance to form a bangle .








Серебристый и медные браслеты.

Then each pupil was measured for a silver bangle and it was recommended that fewer beads were threaded onto the silver in order to show off the precious metal.

The ends of the bangle were formed into a loop using round nose pliers.

Out of the Ordinary - An Arts Award Bronze Course in Clay Bead-making with Tim Broughton

A Course in Clay Bead-making

Tim Broughton is a jeweler who has been in the trade for 45 years and who now works from a studio in Swinton, Greater Manchester,as well as teaching courses in jewelry and delivering workshops in clay.  A graduate of the University of Salford, Tim also has an active interest in archaeology and antiques.

https://www.facebook.com/BridgewaterStudios


Tim told the group about the history of jewelry, and that one of the earliest forms was made with clay beads threaded onto a torq.

The  pupils were then shown how to make beads by taking a small piece of white air-drying clay and rolling it around in the palm of their hands.  They could also roll the bead around on a flat surface if they wished.  Then Tim showed them how to pierce a hole carefully in the centre of the bead with a cocktail stick.

The students were also shown how to make long, thin beads, but these had to be treated with more care, as they could be fragile. The best size for these beads is about a half inch.  Piercing a hole through this type of bead is more difficult than through the round beads.

There was another method of making beads, which was by cutting into a thin layer of clay with shaped cutters.  There was the opportunity to make a variety of shapes and this time a hole needed to be pierced towards the edge of the shape.  The hole needs to be reasonably wide, so that the copper or silver wire fits through it.

The pupils set to work and produced a great number and variety of beads, which were left to dry for a few days....

Schüler von Oasis Akademie in Salford, Greater Manchester, machten Perlen aus Luft-trocknen Ton.

Dzieci produkowany szeroki wachlarz biżuteria z gliny podczas ich pierwszej lekcji.

Une grande variété de perles sont faites par les élèves d'Oasis Academy, Media City, Salford, quand ils apprennent à faire des bijoux avec Tim Broughton.

La gama de abalorios realizados por los alumnos de la Academia de Oasis, Media City, Salford, sólo está limitado por la imaginación!

La gamma dei talloni realizzati dagli studenti dell Accademia di oasi, Media City, Salford, è limitata solo dalla fantasia di questi studenti!

Lapset tekevät koruja!

بچوں کو مٹی جپنوں

Out of the Ordinary - An Arts Award Bronze Course in Fantasy Figure Drawing with Astrom Chang

Fantasy Figure Drawing 

Astrom Chang is a graduate of the University of Salford School of Art and Design.  His work at the University was of a more traditional kind, though, from an early age, he was learning the art of fantasy and superhero figures.

Astrom has been a professional illustrator during the past ten years and has collaborated recently with an established author on one of his picture novels, as well as inventing his own superhero.

He  has also delivered drawing workshops to youth groups and school pupils, however, at present he is concentrating on his figure drawing, mainly out and about around the  local city centre.

Website: http://astromchang.deviantart.com/

TV interview with That's Manchester:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry3lNfgUr4A&feature=share

In the Oasis Academy workshops he distributed diagrams from which the pupils could copy,  in order for them to "flex their artistic muscles" before creating their own drawings.  One was of a young woman's face and the other was of a figure.  It was recommended that these two diagrams be copied on a daily basis before attempting any drawing.

A rudimentary lesson in perspective was offered to the pupils, some of whom had heard of it but found it a difficult concept at first.  Astrom showed them the two point perspective and explained why it could be useful in drawing the figure three-quarters on, within some kind of a setting, such as a city-scape.

Astrom then demonstrated the basic skills of drawing a superhero's figure using, in the first instance, geometrical shapes such as oblongs, circles and cylinders to make the skeleton and then gradually building on this to achieve a more resolved figure.

The pupils then invented their own characters, and some even wrote a story.  The importance of these workshops was to stress the necessity for an artist to practice drawing every day, if possible.

Вчителя герой - Stan Lee. Stan Lee придумали відомого коміксів Marvel Супер-герой. Чи знаєте ви, що Супер-герой?

Les élèves de l'Académie Oasis aiment connaître les techniques de dessin et de perspective avec Astrom Chang.

Es ist wunderbar zu sehen, wie leicht und schnell Astrom zeichnen kann, nachdem er so viele Jahren seine Faehigkeiten praktiziert hat.

Según Astrom, ahora hay algunos brillantes ilustradores hembra usando sus habilidades para cambiar nuestra perspectiva sobre la fantasía narraciones en comic book art.

Out of the Ordinary - An Arts Award Bronze Course in Needlecraft - Claire Hignett

Needlecraft with Claire Hignett

I had booked a recent graduate, Lauren Heakin to teach model-making in this mid-session, which was to collide with the half-term holidays.  Fortunately for Lauren, she had landed a post in commercial television, but unfortunately for us, she was unable to join us.

We were extremely fortunate, however, at very short notice, to engage the services of a very fine needle craft tutor, Claire Hignett.  The following is a snippet from her professional CV:

"My work fits very well into the heritage sector. Recent residencies at Islington Mill and Ordsall Hall Tudor Manor House have used the fabric of these buildings, their contents and stories to create a permanent piece at the hall and and an Installation - Secret and Sacred- in the gallery at the mill. I have also worked on a project with DIY Theatre Company "Picking up the threads" and with St.Clement's Church in Ordsall both funded through the Heritage Lottery Fund As part of the Happy Museums project I was involved in running a small art project at the Imperial War Museum in the North and I currently work for Retracing Salford on their recently acquired archive of glass plate negatives from the 1950's, again funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, "

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/claire-hignett-a2a15736

For the project which Claire had devised for the course, the pupils were asked to draw ordinary objects of their choice.  

 Next they were given five squares of felt 300 x 300 mm in different colours.  The pupils were allowed to choose the colours to use, except that one layer had to be black.  Each felt piece was layered on top with the black square on the bottom.  The pupils were asked to stitch around the edge of the square through to the bottom layer, in order to keep the layers together.  Each individual design was transferred to the top layer of the felt sandwich.  The pupils were asked to stitch around the outlines of thier objects and then to cut part of the design away so as to reveal a different colour and a part of the design as a whole.  One young person, Olivia,  was asked if she wanted to embroider a design on to reverse applique piece.

One or two pupils took their work home over the half-term holiday in order to work a little more on the felt designs.


There was a range of very different designs, all brightly coloured. and the results were stunning!

Destiny cutting out her design

by Olivia

 by Fanni

 by Destiny

By Naomi

Français: Les élèves ont essayé leurs mains à la couture. Certains d'entre eux n'avaient jamais fait ça avant et trouvé difficile même pour enfiler une aiguille. Toutefois, ils ont persévéré et sont allés de l'avant pour créer de superbes oeuvres d'art. L'un d'eux, la verseuse, a été transformé en un petit coussin.

Deutsch: Die Schülerinnen versuchten ihre Hände zu nähen. Einige von ihnen hatten noch nie getan und fand es schwierig, selbst an Gewinde eine Nadel. Nähen braucht viel Geduld und Entschlossenheit, und es ist ihnen zu verdanken, dass die Schüler nicht aufgeben, und alle haben ihre eigenen kleinen Meisterwerke

Polski: Uczniów spróbowało swoich rąk podczas szycia. Niektóre z nich nigdy nie zrobił tego przed i okazało się, że trudna nawet do nici igły. Sewing trwa dużo cierpliwości i determinacji i nie ma już na swoim koncie, że uczniowie nie poddawac i wszystkie utworzone własne małe arcydzieła

Español: Los alumnos trataron sus manos en la costura. Algunos de ellos nunca había hecho esto antes y le resultaba difícil incluso para enhebrar una aguja. Costura toma mucha paciencia y determinación, y es a su crédito en el que los alumnos no se dio por vencido y todos crean sus propias pequeñas obras maestras