The increase in people interested in our classes is a confirmation of the work we have been developing.
Last June we facilitated three mornings dedicated to the arts at CERCIPóvoa.
Between the 6th and the 13th of October, in Italy, the first drawing workshop organised by Blind Contour, our collaboration with artist teacher Melissa Morris, took place.
This weekend (22nd and 23rd of September) the Imagina Festival: Arts for the youngest.
Blind Contour is the name of our collaboration with artist Melissa Morris.
Once again we were happy to be invited to collaborate with a local primary school to do scenography for the yearly theatre play.
This school year we had two strong courses running for nine months.
A day of learning at the Ethnographic Museum of Lousã with Cerdeira, Arts and Crafts School teachers.
Last month we started a series of new events at Sol School in Alverca.
We recently gave a workshop for children at the CSPDS (Social Centre for Sobralinho's Development).
We are now well past the middle of the Drawing with Colour course and it's been amazing to see how much work the group has done.
During the month of April we gave two courses at the stone village of Cerdeira.
We are half way through the Portrait II course. We have now dedicated three lessons to drawing portraits with dry pastel.
The students explored ways of integrating figures and ground using different materials and techniques.
We've only just had the first class of the course and already so much work has been done!
Before we all pause for Christmas and New Year, the fourth session of the Human Figure Drawing course focused on the observation of hands and feet.
We've just come back from a five day workshop spent in the village of Cerdeira. A small stone village, near Lousã, Portugal, restored and built with the purpose of hosting artists and craftsmen.
The last weekend of the course Drawing in Nature was dedicated to ways of capturing the atmosphere of a place.
Leonardo da Vinci formulated the rule that reveals how trees grow. He offers the image of a rope that unwinds itself. Each new group of branches shares the thickness of the previous one.
Saturday afternoon was dedicated to stories and games with children about Van Gogh's painting.
The first weekend of the Drawing in Nature course was spent studying textures and details in nature. These images show a series of monoprints done by our students while observing natural objects that they gathered. The focus was on finding the right marks to describe the different kind of textures.
Here are some images of sketches and prototypes from the work we're doing with the primary school at A-dos-Loucos. We've been invited to help out with the production of a play that tells the story of a well kept secret in the oasis. Lizards, camels, scorpions, a centaur and a giant serpent are all characters that will populate the stage.
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