Illuminate animation project

This summer the Illuminate group worked with animator Trevor Wollery and sound artist Tom Hill to write and create an animation inspired by objects in the Castle's collection of Chinese Silk. We used puppets of Chinese Opera characters as the basis for the tale and spent 8 days making props and scenery, animating the story and writing music and creating sound effects for the project.
The group wrote their own blog about their project which can be found at http://www.mubu.org.uk/living-in-silk/2011/08/and videos of our sound and animation adventures can be found on our vimeo page http://vimeo.com/user7453282/videos

The making of "The Dragon and the Heavenly Peach" from Illuminate on Vimeo.

Gallery Art group, Lakeside Arts centre

I've started working at Lakeside Arts Centre and am currently running one of their Gallery Art groups. We spent the first half term looking at the work of artist Inge Tong and creating pictures inspired by old black and white photographs.
We've also played lots of drawing games, including a kind of consequences game were we all drew different features and added them to a face....