As Christmas was approaching we had a session designing Christmas cards. I brought in a selection of cards available on the market as well as showing them my design from the previous year. The participants then enjoyed designing their own….
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We observed the changing colours of Autumn mixing autumnal oranges & browns. I planned a session drawing & painting pumpkins, squashes & leaves, here’s some of their wonderful creations. Once the leaves had fallen from the trees I encouraged everyone…
I was delighted to be asked to deliver art sessions at Spa Court starting the first week of November following on from the sessions at Dover Court and Cantley Close. At Spa Court it was a quiet start initially but…
This week we have been inspired by the Holi festival. I bought in lots of scarves, of many colours and sizes and we all chose our favourite. We started by working in smaller groups of 4 or 5. In these…
After a fun and lively session last week, we started to learn a couple of Tai Chi movements as a part of our cool down. Everyone became very focused and completely in the zone whilst doing this and whilst we…
Over the summer art sessions at Cantley Close, Derby we have worked on different themes; Landscape, Birds, Still Life, Aboriginal Painting & Rainforests. Everyone has relaxed & now embracing different subjects & techniques with confidence. Over cups of tea &…
In today’s session we have been continuing to learn elements of traditional Indian dance, focusing on Bollywood hand and gesture dance and traditional stick dancing (Dandiya) Today we re-caped all stick dance phase learnt so far and continued to learn…
Over the past two weeks the group have been focusing on story telling using traditional Indian hand gestures and dance as a way to tell these stories. We’ve learnt some traditional gestures and the meanings behind the gestures and also…