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kids art project at the raigmore community centre ,inverness
One day somebody asked me if i had found anyone with talent whilst doing my workshops.I was happy to answer that i’d never met anybody without.
When we r painting a collective wall we need v different skills, some kids got good motors skills but v slow, some are messy but fast, some creative but low attention, some are loud but got ideas…
It’s all about TEAM WORK.
Graffiti Art workshop for the children’s hospice association scotland (CHAS)
Children’s Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS) is a Scottish charity that provides the only hospice services in Scotland for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.
graffiti workshop for HDCD,Straffpeffer Community Centre
Graffiti Sketching with kids who have difficulty with movement and with specific aspects of learning.
More info on HDCD website http://www.hdcd.org.uk/
graffeur.com
i am curently working at developing a french version of fresh paint workshop,the site called graffeur.com is still in construction,
here is a quick preview http://graffeur.com
Bienvenue sur le site graffeur.com,ici vous découvrirez les differents services que l’on propose,
atelier d’initiation au graff,création de logo,déco tout support,graff performance,fresque intérieure et extérieure,et enfin sur toile avec des lettrages ou des portraits personnalisés.
En espérant que vous aprécirez le contenu.
Si vous ne trouvez pas ce que vous recherchez sur le site,envoyer moi un email , je serai heureux de vous aider dans votre démarche.
banner workshop at hilton community center, inverness
Young carers are children and young people who provide care for a sick or disabled relative at home. The person they care for is often a parent, but it could be a grandparent or a brother or sister. Young carers are usually in lone parent families and may come from any social or cultural background. The parent may have a physical disability or a mental health difficulty, or dependence on drugs / alcohol.Check out their website at http://www.forhighlandsyoungcarers.co.uk/
graffiti workshop for arts development tutors,transition extreme,aberdeen
Today [Friday, 26 June] Transition staff, arts development tutors, local youth workers will meet and work with visiting artist Marc Delaye to learn practical skills as well as forging partnerships for future work around tackling the problem of graffiti.
Design and spray painting workshops will be held from 10am – 4pm tomorrow [Saturday 27 June] at Transition Extreme which will give anyone 14 years old and over the chance meet and work with graffiti artist Marc Delaye from Inverness along with arts development tutors, Transition staff and youth workers.
Aberdeen City Council community arts officer Margaret Stewart said: “The wall can be used by anyone at any time on the understanding that the artwork applied is not offensive and that the graffiti is kept to the designated wall.
“We hope the wall will to be used and evolve, presenting exciting and inspiring spray artwork legally, showing these artists in a positive light.”
Places on the workshops are free for anyone aged 14 and over. Places are limited so booking is essential by telephoning Transition Extreme on (01224) 626279.
Arts development is part of the education, culture and sport service provided by Aberdeen City Council. It is an arts organisation led by professional arts practitioners enabling individuals, small groups and whole communities to learn skills that create lasting changes to life. The team works in partnership to create sustainable and inclusive learning opportunities, encouraging all citizens to realise their potential.
For further information on the project, please contact Margaret Stewart, community arts officer on (01224) 523640.
graffiti workshop in Tarves,Aberdeenshire
Young people give their drop-in centre The Hut a make over
TARVES youngsters have been rolling up their sleeves over the Easter break to spruce up their drop-in centre.
The portable building beside Tarves Primary School – known as The Hut – is now home to Tarves Youth Group and the result of a project started 10 years ago.
Over the past week, the 25-strong group has been giving its base a revamp.
Team members joined in an artists’ workshop at the start of the week and continued their working holiday transforming the outside of the building with spray-painted designs.
Youth worker Helen Maniukiewicz said: “I have never met such a motivated group. They just want somewhere to call their own and are so keen. The Hut now has a bright, new look reflecting their interests.”
She and fellow youth worker Rosie Sturton, who have been helping with the project for about two years, have seen a steady growth in the number of participants, aged 13-21, involved in regular Monday and Wednesday evening sessions.
The hut team now plans to organise bag-packing sessions at local supermarkets to raise more cash to repaint and renovate The Hut inside.
The home-from-home features a lounge and kitchenette where the young people can get together socially to dance and play music, do homework and cook their own snacks.
The group members, who raise all the funding for the hut, plan to hold their own Tarves Has Talent show in Melvin Hall later in the year.
They will be putting up posters once details have been finalised.
Miss Maniukiewicz said: “The hut is a real success and an example of what could be done in other communities across the area.”
workshop with special needs kids for SOAR project ,helmsdale
Very Special Children
The following is an excerpt from KinderArt: Born to Create © Andrea Mulder-Slater, Jantje Blokhuis-Mulder
- Whether your child is particularly active, hearing or visually impaired, or developmentally delayed, always point out the achievements that she makes. Always, always, always, focus on the positive and not on the concepts not yet mastered. You have all the time in the world.
- Find yourself a support group by contacting other parents who are in the same situation as you. Find out what works for them. Share your triumphs and your failures too.
- Remember at all times that special needs children do not misbehave on purpose. They want to please you. They want to feel important and worthwhile. Sometimes they may experience difficulty carrying out a task because they have too much energy or because they simply feel frustrated and cannot focus on the task at hand. Be patient and let them know that you are proud of their efforts.
- Keep a record of your child’s achievements. This way you will be able to easily recall the events and experiences that you both enjoyed the most. This will also help you to remember those activities which kept your child’s attention and those which did not. …..read more at http://www.kinderart.com
on going recycling mural project,inverness
we started today the recycling mural,
at the cameron community center in dalneigh,
nothing unusual paintin in between showers
thanks to paul and ryan for their help…..
graffiti workshop at scalloway youth club,shetland
Scalloway Youth Centre was daubed with graffiti this week.
The police were involved, as were staff from the NHS and the SIC, but there were no arrests and no complaints.
In fact the culprits have been highly praised for their efforts.
The graffiti art was designed, planned and applied to an area on the inside of the building b y members of the youth club as part of an approved community programme to enable them to express their creative talents and find an outlet for their energy with the assistance of youth centre staff and a visiting artist.
The idea was conceived and co-ordinated by local youth worker Laura Saunders, who provided members of the youth club with a range of options for creative projects and assisted them in realising their goal and overcoming the challenges involved. The youths chose to pursue the option of graffiti-style murals.
Laura said: “We wanted them to experience urban culture in a positive way. The majority of the group are 14-16 years old and this was a means to help them decide more about what they want to do in life and help them to steer clear of anti-social behaviour. This can help them decide things like if they want to go to college or university and for them to experience the kind of things they would south.”
Visiting artist Marc Delaye has travelled up from Inverness to assist, supervise and instruct the group. He has a long track record of projects such as this in Scotland and France. Classified as a spray-can artist, he specialises in banner making, t-shirt stencilling and mural design as well as graffiti. Running the workshops in Scalloway over three nights, he also provided the centre with some of his own signature art before leaving.
The project was funded from the local action fund of the community safety partnership, which Laura contacted. The partnership includes the Police and the NHS as well as the SIC. Though always available to help them, Laura was keen to stress that the youth group, from Brae and Sandwick as well as Scalloway, rose to the challenge and filled in all their own forms and did their own research. “They’ve been having a ball and getting on so well. There’s some really good artists among them and this is giving them confidence.” The murals, in the upstairs billiards room of the centre, are entirely developed by the youth group and combine Scalloway related themes with Manga-style cartoon art.
free 4 day Urban Art workshop led by French graffiti artist Marc Delaye
Last week young people from Gairloch enjoyed a free 4 day Urban Art workshop led by French street artist Marc Delaye. With his assistance the participants designed and painted 6 murals and made a new outdoor sign for the den youth café, learning about perspective, colour, volume, outlines, vanishing points and lettering as they worked.
The event follows on from a successful public art workshop held in Kinlochewe earlier in the year. Due to the amont of interest it was decided to progress this initial workshop into a 4 day workshop as part of the Wester Ross Summer Activity Programme.
The Highland Council’s Gairloch Youth Work Team successfully applied to Youthlink Scotland for funding to enable this and other new activities to take place in the area over the summer.
Fiona Downie Youth Development Officer for the area said: “Everyone got involved right from the design stages. Participants had to conduct some research and choose which style they liked best, then collectively as a group they chose what colours and images to use. Everyone worked well together and produced high quality work in such a short timescale it was terrific to see everyone develop their art skills and work part of a team.”
graffiti workshop in tomatin
PUPILS SPRAY PAINT THE WALLS
A group of Millbun Academy pupils have embarked on an urban art project to jazz up their local youth club.
Along with some Daviot primary School children,they have had a unique opportunity to decorate their hall at Strathdearn in Tomatin using graffiti-style-art.
Around 20 pupils learned from inverness based urban artist Marc Delaye,who helped the youngsters develop their skills.
Dougie Mackay,youth development officer for the Millburn catchment area,said:
” i was asked to take the project as the kids wanted to decorate their hall in away which was different to anything before.i knew artist Marc Delaye and asked him to give a couple of workshops to the kids.
“they seemed to really enjoy the experience.at first they cut out scrappings from magazines and tried out different designs and then they progressed to the wall itself.
“it took 4 days to complete and all the pupils worked very hard.they’ve painted across 3 walls altogether and the finish looks pretty amazing.there is a 3D effect to some of the walls which also looks very good”
graffiti workshop at evanton skatepark
graffiti workshop with pulteneytown peoples project,wick
Meanwhile, graffiti artist Marc Delaye held his third workshop at PPP last week.
The artist worked with over 36 young people over the two-day event with two-hour sessions taking place so Marc could work with small groups to help them design and paint the wall.
Children were identified through the school and came along with teachers, and there were also sessions for children who were on study leave.
Mrs MacNab explained that in the past Marc’s visits have been very successful and the demand was high to bring him back again.
She added: “Those involved in the Carnegie Project have been working hard at landscaping the PPP gardens and the murals on the wall finish off their project. Children get a chance to learn new techniques from the skilled artist and the finished result is fantastic.”
GRAFFITI LESSONS ALL IN A GOOD CAUSE
FRENCH ARTIST SHOWS YOUNGSTERS HOW TO BRIGHTEN UP STREETS
In what might be seen as an unusual move,a french artist has been teaching youngsters in the merkinch area of inverness how to draw graffiti.
It is not the crude paint-spray daubing on random walls that so angers some people however,but a more upmarket version as a method of brightening up the streets.
The teenagers have come up with a brightly-coloured eye-catching design which has been painted on the wall which encloses nicol s gap site on Grant Street.
The bold painting spells out the word Scotland and also includes a Scottish flag and a thistle.Marc Delaye,37 who is originally from Avignon in the sout of france,held several workshops before completing the mural itself which involved around eight youngsters from mp33 the local youth drop-in entre.
Mr Delaye said:’I think the youngsters got a lot of enjoyement out of the project’
‘We’ve had a lot of good feedback.In fact one woman stopped her car to get out and have a look’
Anne Sutherland of the merkinch partnership community group said:’An important element of the project is that it involves the artist working with local young people.
‘The boys worked very hard in the preliminary workshop sessions and on the wall itself and in that respect the project has been a great succes’.
‘There has been very positive feedback from the local community on the design and the colours used on the wall,which has certainly brightened up the area of Grant Street’.
The group will now be working on a similar project at Thornbush road which will have a jungle theme.An other mural was completed at Glendoe Terrace last year.
PUTTING COLOUR INTO THE CARSE,glendoe terrace inverness
KIDS GET BUSY WITH ART PROJECT
Residents on an Inverness housing estate blighted by vandalism will soon open their doors in the morning and think they have landed on Bondi beach.
For a french artist and local school children have transformed the gable end of a business premises ravaged by graffiti on the carse industrial estate into an image of an exotic paradise complete with swayingpalm trees and muscle-bound surfers.
‘There s been a lot of negative publicity about this area recently so it s nice to see something positive happening and it s great to see so many children involved,’declared Glendoe Terrace residents association chairman Dawn Beaton.
‘The painting will certainly cheer me up when i open my door in the morning and i am sure it will give many residents something to brighten up their day after the dreary summer we have had to endure so far’
The scheme to cover up the unsightly graffiti at the premises of Begetube uk,an underfloor heating company,was a joint venture prompted by the local community warden,councillor Peter Corbett and merkinch partnership officer Anne Sutherland.
‘We were lucky to be put in touch with french artistMarc Delaye who lives locally and he has been fantastic throughout the duration of the project.’Dawn explained.
‘He met with the youngters and discussed some ideas and this is what he came up with.We moved towards this idea of a happy tropical beach scene which will certainly brighten up people s life.
‘Marc has drawn the fine detail and we have 11 local children between the ages of 12 and 16 who are filling in the colours.
‘He s been very enthusiastic talking things through with the children and they have really enjoyed working on the project and obviously when it s finished they wil be very proud of what they have achieved.
‘A couple of yobs did pass and said it would not last long,but we certainly hope it will.
‘it s a lovely mural which has transformed an area which was covered with disgusting graffiti and obscene language.
Ms Sutherland said the interaction between Marc and the kids was’ fantastic’
‘The children have got a lot out of experience and it will certainly make a difference to the lives of residents inGlendoe Terrace’,she stated.
art project at the bridge ,inverness
THE BRIDGE – AN INTEGRATED VOCATIONAL TRAINING FACILITY
Highland Council recognised that alternative forms of education are needed for some pupils, for whom mainstream education does not suit, to realise their potential. The aim was to bring these pupils back into an education environment different to a school, which reflects where they might be in future years and which provides them with all the support services they may need under one roof, thereby promoting integrated cross-service working.
This led to the decision to establish an intermediate vocational training facility in Inverness, close to Inverness College and situated within a light industrial area where the potential of working with small businesses could be maximised. Highland Council leased a newly built showroom/office unit in the Longman Business Area. Specialist teaching accommodation is provided on the ground floor in the form of a light workshop, computer room, flexible teaching accommodation, quiet rooms and support teaching rooms. On the upper floor, office and teaching space for support services is provided for the Pupil Support Service, Youth Action Service, New Community School Approach staff, Through Care and After Care Service, Home Tuition Service and Looked After Children Support Staff.
graffiti workshop,collaboration with Dan Cottam,Kingussie highschool
Graffiti Artists at work, pictures by Eilidh McLeod
graffiti workshop,grantown/spey primary school
BUGS BRING A TOUCH OF PRIMARY COLOURS
Giant beasties have been found crawling around granton primary school, but there is no need to call rentokil- the bugs are the creation of inverness graffiti artist and the youngsters of the town.Marc Delaye and a group of 11 to 15 year olds have been giving a colourful new lease of life to a ramshakle shed in the grounds of the primary school, which was formerly a classroom.The four sides of the building have been covered in images of gigantic, brightly coloured bugs surrounded by exotic plants and grasses of all different, shapes and colours.Funding for the project which was completed on thursday after several days of hard work, has come fro m the highland council, and childrens servic e s workers from grantown and aviemore were involved in bringing the project to life.Head teacher at the school, Mairi Robertson, is delighted with the result.”the shed was a classroom many years ago, and has been an eyesore for a long time”she said. “the children will all be delighted when they come back from their summer break next month and see the transformation.”we are really grateful to allthe youngsters who have been involved in creating these wonderful beasties. i must admit when i walk past the mural it helps put a smile on my face-it just has that sort of effect. i just hope it does the same for everyone else.School neighbours george and mabel paton have also been admiring the new artwork dreamed up by spray can artist delaye and the local yougsters.”it is really colourful and a great improvement on what was there”,mr paton said from their house which overlooks the shed.Jane Wilson,children services worker for grantown,said that the project had caught the imagination of the youngsters.”they have been so focused and hard working…
