Bryan Eccleshall
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Keswick Pencil Museum
Each child was given a fragment of a picture, a small pice of watercolour paper and some water soluble coloured pencils. The resulting drawings were assmbled to re-make the original image: Castlerigg Stone Circle. Really.
Over the years I have been asked by schools, libraries, Sure Start and others to run workshops. These have been mainly for young children, though I have also done some Teacher Training.
To the left are some images of the work produced and brief explanations of what was going on within those sessions.
Recently I have also been employed as a guest lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University to run drawing workshops on BA courses.
As a general rule, I like to find a strategy that involves and engages everyone in the group and often results in one large piece of collaborative work rather than lots of smaller pieces.
My emphasis is less on teaching a technical skill and more on helping people find new ways of looking, understanding and creating.
If you want to get in touch with me regarding any workshop you would like me to run, email me by clicking here.
Esthwaite School
Pupils were played somw music and simply asked to paint what they heard. This was created listening to Miles David' Kind Of Blue.
Esthwaite School
During Autmn we collected leaves and then drew round them as starting points for designs. The colours used were inspired by the leaves themselves.
Workington Library
LS Lowry visited Workington and drew the pithead. We each took a part of photograph of that building (redundant but still standing), and using newspaper and paint made a giant version of the image.
Esthwaite School
A photograph of David Beckham was cut up and each child was given a section (without knowing the subject). After the picture was assembled we had a lot of fun working out who it was.
Esthwaite School
After a week or two of brainstorming and planning, we desinged a "Cool School". This detail shows classrooms in pods that would be accessed by lifts and exited using slides and rollercoasters.
Inset Training
A map of Cumbria was cut up and each teacher was asked to colour it in using bold colours and design strategies. No-one knew what the final image would be until it was all put together.
Esthwaite School
A visual diary. Each child was asked to find a way of visually representing the day they had had. This image show how different lessons - and playtime - were compartmentalised.
Esthwaite School
For an Art Day we made a giant Green Man. Different groups coloured paper, cut shapes and assembled the image. When finished the face was about five feet tall!
Esthwaite School / Inset Training
One member of a small group was given a postcard of a piece of art and asked to describe it (as if on the phone, so no hand gestures), to the others. Each of the group tries to draw the image from the description alone.
The top image was created by a teacher on an Inset Training sessions, the other by a child at Esthwaite School.
Rollover the images to see what they were based on.
Esthwaite School
From images cut out of National Geographic lots of new animals were created and collaged onto a huge panorama. Here we see just two of the creatures, with their names.
Esthwaite School
By creating a colourful design and placing it between two hinged mirrors complex and beautiful mandala-like images were created.
Retford Oaks School Cluster
This was a large ongoing project called "It's Good To Be Me". Each child had a tower that was as tall and as wide as they were to decorate. They coverd the tower with imagesabout heir life. Maps, letters, photographs, paw prints, wallpaper etc..
It resulted in 100+ towers being shown at BendInTheRiver Gallery, Gainsborough.
Esthwaite School
Children were shown the proportions of the human face and then asked to draw portraits of each other using this knowledge. This, inevitably, is me.
