6 sept

What we were making/doing:

Today we were making prints using stencils, heat blocks and other things. We were looking at the work of print makers and street artists, talking about how to make prints and images with what is around us and how to improvise

Artists we were looking at:

Banksy

OBEY

What we learnt:

We learn some printing techniques such as block printing and stenciling to create repeatable and variable images. We were also talking about how some artists use the same images over and over to create a memorable icon and use these tools for political voice

30 aug

What we were making/doing:

We were making animations using chalk, modeling clay and flick animations with paper. We made characters to animate and discussed how to make a short story with our animation. We also ended up making some drawings for outside the gallery (who knows why!)

Artists we were looking at:

Blu/Muto

Aardmann

What we learnt:

We learnt about the moving image being made up of lots of still images moved a tiny bit every frame. We learnt about how to make objects appear to be doing certain things and moving. Check out our animations at the bottom of the blog!

23 aug

What we were making/doing:

Today we were decorating our art club t-shirts (we'll need them for messy stuff later!) with our names and other drawings! we made text art using 3D cardboard structures, arranging them in different ways and we also came up with a massive palm tree and some pretty awesome interchangeable characters too. We were introduced to out new art club sketchbooks and how we can use them for jotting down visual ideas and making whatever genius ideas and whatever mistakes we want

Artists we were looking at:

Jason Rhoades
Jenny Holzer

Bob and Roberta Smith

What we learnt:

We learnt about documenting installations and how some art is temporal, changing and how some sculpture even requires hands on interaction with the viewer and public. We talked about how text can be a really interesting thing to use in art as it means different things to different people

Some things we had to say about art this week:

'that palm tree is like the one in the picture behind and we had no idea it was there!'
'I'm going to make inventions in my sketchbook'

art club at aberdeen art fair 13 & 14 aug

on the 13th and 14th aug we were really happy to meet a whole bunch of new kids at the free art club drop in sessions we held at the aberdeen art fair at aberdeen music hall. here's some of what we got up to!