Upcycling our Sketch books with The Junior Artists Club

We took our sketch books and added personal touches to make them unique. This included adding recycled, buttons, ribbon, screws, old flowers, and clothes pegs. Working with Carole Trenaman

Trying out Mixed Media effects

The Junior Artists tried creating different effects using different background materials to complement their subject matter. Then they drew their subjects on acetate and placed them over the background to achieve some depth.

Working with Project Co-ordinator Carole Trenaman.

Echo Environmental Awards 2013

 What a brilliant time we all had at The Echo Environmental Awards ceremony.

The Junior Artists Club won
 Keep Learning Young Environmental Stars Award.

 The Junior Artists Club was represented by Zoe Hough (artist); her mum Wendy; Carole Trenaman (project co-ordinator); and Jude Cooke (HAA Educational representative).

The ceremony took place at the Isla Gladstone Conservatory. It was a wonderfully atmospheric building and absolutely packed with a wide variety of business delegates, community members, educationalists, and press and media representatives.




We were on a table with representatives from


Black Frost
Friends of Garston Park &
The Printroom Uk Ltd

Wonderful sunset

The Printroom UK Ltd won Carbon Champion Award

The picture we chose for our advertising is from a beehive design created by Karen Edwards

An Ode from a local poet

 Oh! To be in April!

 

You can always tell it's April

By the sound of falling rain

That mystic, mournful music

As it trickles down the drain.

 

We're told we should be thankful

For the kiss of April showers

As it washes all the grass clean

And prepares the soil for flowers.

 

There's another side to April

Which doesn't bode us good,

When that mini, manic maelstrom

Turns the lawn to liquid mud.

 

When mice hide under hedges

And hedgehogs take to ground,

The birds are wet and hungry,

The worms have all been drowned.

 

Within a week, or maybe two,

A million latent seeds

Will germinate and procreate,

To fill the world with weeds.

 

Then while I'm fighting anarchy,

Armed with my trusty hoe.

Behind me, surreptitiously,

The grass begins to grow.

 

I ease my taut and breaking back

And nurse my aching bones.

I think I'll call the builders in

To lay some paving stones.

 

I'll build a concrete jungle

Where I can sit for hours,

Snug in a concrete garden shed

Secure from April Showers.

 

Copyright Thomas Vaughan Jones 

Photos of Halewood Park Triangle by Carole Trenaman

Only 'Yoking'

 Today the children made some Easter eggs and Easter Baskets.  The eggs were boiled and dyed with 'Natural' colouring agents including, vinegar, red onion, turmeric and 'natural' food colourings.  They stuck a variety of materials to the eggs as a stencil such as stickers, elastic bands, ribbon, lace and lots more.  The end results 'Eggstravigant'.  They also learned in the process which dye worked the best and we also learned the difference between free range and caged hens.

Messy Madness

Tonight the kids @halewoodsarts are doing a bit of everything and anything.  Tonight is a chill out night were the kids can do whatever they like.  The boys have decided to make some quirky aeroplanes and the girls drew some interesting horses and cats.  They have decided to experiment with materials and objects and have come up with some great ideas as usual.

Painting on Canvas

Becky Bryson; the talented artist, came to work with the children tonight to produce artwork on canvas. We first practiced on paper drawing faces and animals, and then we transferred the pictures to canvas using black marker and paints. There were some beautiful self portraits, footballers and even dinosaurs!