Art workshops / Gweithdai Celf

GCSE Art Club
Royal Cambrian Academy, Crown Lane, Conwy
£12 for all 3 sessions

26th January 5 - 6.30pm
Work in your Sketchbook with mixed media. (Bring your sketchbook along with magazine cuttings with text and images).

This workshop will encourage students to explore and create personal pages in their sketchbooks, by using an array of different techniques of mixed media and collage.

The key element will be the discovery of using different paper surfaces to work on, for example envelopes, maps, paper bags and text cuttings from magazines. Fabric, photographs and other materials combined with their drawings will create interesting compositions in their sketchbooks.

In this session we will look at and discuss a range of artist whose work is mixed media. Artist such as Luned Rhys Parri, Jim Dine, Ivor Davies, Peter Blake and Tracey Emin

9th February 5 - 6.30pm
Design your own CD cover.
The aim of this workshop will be for students to re-design a selected number of CD covers. We will look at a group of illustrators and graphic designers who create a broad range of styles in both traditional and contemporary CD design including Julian Opie and Jamie Hewlett (Gorillaz).

The workshop will emphasise a strong sense of composition and design and the use of illustration as a tool of communication.

23rd February 5 - 6.30pm
Design a piece of contemporary architecture.
This workshop will explore the world of Architecture design from drawings to 3D Marquette buildings. Students will look at and discuss the work of Antoni Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright, Daniel Libeskind and also the Olympic stadium in Beijing (Birds Nest). The aim of the workshop is to design a piece of architecture, thinking about structure, scale, environmental and urban aspects.