Traditional art Big Draw workshop at the Electric Theatre, Guildford.
Tags: Guildford, Electric Theatre, Tablet art, The Big Draw, shrink plastic art, city
Date: 28 October 2014 09:52:57
I'm lucky that my job is often my hobby (and vice versa).
Witness the Electric Theatre Family Festivals, for example :) I get to stand and run around and draw with dozens of lovely kids and their parents and grandparents and, generally, do traditional and touch screen drawings together. I've done various things there on Surface tablet, Hudl and iPad but the sessions which are the most popular are almost always the Shrink Plastic sessions...
On Monday the 'Leccy asked me to run a drawing session with a theme of making cities. The thing that came to mind was allowing the kids to rampage through cities as a monster or a superhero... But I was aware that when you have a dozen kids all asking for help at the same time, not to mention the fact that you'll be tied to an oven cooking shrink plastic for much of the session, on my own, then it all had to be fairly self explanatory and easy to conduct. On a material budget of £30.
So we made masks:
and we made city buildings to be added to an ever growing Electric City...
...which anyone could be photographed in...
but, of course, the major part of the session was Shrink Plastic...
...and, all in all, it was a very lovely five hours of creative chaos, drawing, cooking shrink plastic, chatting and laughing.
Except for when pumpkins were scarily (but fabulously :) ) drawn... Aaargh. Back there soon to do tablet art again and I'm hopeful that's an equally lovely session.