Busy week. Tablet and Traditional art workshops ahoy...

Categories: artwork, youth-work, events

Tags: brushes app, Guildford, Nomad Brush, Digital Art, Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, Dagi stylus, University of Surrey, Surrey Sports Park, iPad 4, Flowpaper, Lightbox, Woking

Date: 14 November 2013 08:16:37

So things are officially a little busy at the moment in Kercalton.

For a start we're coming to the end of the lovely Lightbox series, which I'll be sad to see end, where I've been leading a ten week tablet and traditional artwork series for 8-10 year olds. They are and have been an ace group to work with. This week we did scraper artwork on glow in the dark board, shrink plastic consequence characters, tablet artwork liquifying faces and, from the ones we did last week, added a bit of colour sparkle to the face mashes I'd printed out for them.

All in all a very lovely session.

Following that I've been at the Surrey Sports Park doing a multi school Teentech event with my students. Basically we rocked up with a range of tablets, stood them up in a range of easels and let people have a go. And it was corkingly good throughout. My students were absolutely fantastic and the school aged students and teachers seemed to have a whale of a time. Hurrah indeed.

Teentech is the brainchild of Maggie Philbin (although there's probably a lot of people involved in the doing of it as it seems a HUGE endeavour) and she popped over, very kindly (and much appreciated) as we've done a shedload of events where nobody takes the time to say hi, and had a photo taken with the team.

(obligatory bunny ears pic).

Some of the artwork produced, in 15 mins, by some of the school age first time tablet artists...

And then, at the end of the day (which was lovely but oh my flip was I tired and a smidge stressful *CoughArrivaLackOfBussesCough*) I had ten minutes to sit and draw.... Only problem was had absolutely no idea what to do! So, if in doubt for an idea ask a student and between us we came up with the idea of the University of Surrey ('cos that's where we was) logo:

... as a Pokemon evolution. fifteen minutes later (well, packing was going so well by them so I felt like I could take the extra time... :) ) this was on the screen.

(iPad 4, Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, Dagi and Nomad).

I would have LOVED to have put the pic above on the big screen (like what we did a year or so ago in the very same hall with Sketchshare....)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geOW3RwRcjs&feature=youtu.be

but it was an iPad 4 and Lightning port and I didn't have a that to VGA connector :( Boo.

But apart from that... Excellent day. Woop.

(edit: and, by request, here's the Uni/Pokemon logo without text...)