Childrens' Workshops
WORKSHOP – DRAWING DRAGONS (and creatures – mythical and otherwise)
I have taught this Dragon Drawing with many children over twenty years or so. It is always successful and pretty easy. Kids are always quite delighted at the level of drawing they can achieve.
It requires nothing more than a pencil, eraser and paper – but can equally well be done with a crayon.
Children love drawing animals. That is the single most popular subject we have seen in our studios. They also love magic and magical creatures. The Dragon fulfils both.
Young Children are also pleased to be taught to draw to a decent level. The method we use makes that easy for them to achieve. They have a product to be proud of. That’s so important for any artist!
FURTHER ANIMAL WORKSHOPS
We could also deliver a set of workshops on other animals – the principles are easy to expand:
Horses, Unicorns, Zebras = same principles of all (ever-popular)
Rabbits, Deer – again = same principles – just longer legs and necks for the deer.
Elephants – very much loved!
GEORGINA ROBERTS – Workshop Presenter
Georgina a successful painter and actress. During her acting career, working as a member of ‘Gecko’ in devised drama performance, she delivered workshops for the company, as she has done for many organisations. (NT; ‘Tender’ and Trestle among them).
As Cathy Bird’s daughter, she has delivered and organised art sessions over the years and presented art/drama/movement workshops herself. The children completely relish her input and Georgina knows the Jessops Farm Studios workshops inside out.
Georgina will be the presenter of most workshops from the studio.
About Cathy
For the last fifteen years, Cathy Bird has run her very successful children’s art sessions from her studios in Kent. There, children from five to A-Level discover the creative freedom of being allowed to draw, paint and model whatever they want. In an almost unique set-up, the children are given the run of a professionally- equipped studio with help from tutors to bring their imaginative ideas to life. The walls of the room are alive with at least a hundred paintings and drawings, in all styes and media, to inspire them.
As a result, sessions have been very popular and often over-subscribed. Cathy’s response is, “My many years of teaching in many forms have convinced me that all artists learn and progress faster when they are working on something they really want to create.’
Cathy Bird is someone who has always loved teaching. As she says ' It's hard to explain to anyone who has not experienced it, just how wonderfully rewarding I find my teaching work. It is just a total buzz to walk into the room and enter a world of creativity.'
After graduating from Art School. Cathy spent several years painting portraits and landscapes in Malawi as well as running a small nursery school.
Later moving to the Gambia, Cathy worked for two years with young, unemployed Gambians creating original Batik pictures for hotels and the tourist market. This resulted in a small industry which, thirty years later, still survives as an art form in the Gambia.
Returning to the UK saw the start of over twenty years’ as an Art teacher and it was only on retirement that she began painting again for herself. In 2006 she decided to bring herself up to date with an MA in Fine Arts in Canterbury, Her time is now divided between her own work and being an art tutor for a wide range of aspiring artists in her own Kent studios.
For the last fifteen years, Cathy Bird has run her very successful children’s art sessions from her studios in Kent. There, children from five to A-Level discover the creative freedom of being allowed to draw, paint and model whatever they want. In an almost unique set-up, the children are given the run of a professionally- equipped studio with help from tutors to bring their imaginative ideas to life. The walls of the room are alive with at least a hundred paintings and drawings, in all styes and media, to inspire them.
As a result, sessions have been very popular and often over-subscribed. Cathy’s response is, “My many years of teaching in many forms have convinced me that all artists learn and progress faster when they are working on something they really want to create.’
Cathy Bird is someone who has always loved teaching. As she says ' It's hard to explain to anyone who has not experienced it, just how wonderfully rewarding I find my teaching work. It is just a total buzz to walk into the room and enter a world of creativity.'
After graduating from Art School. Cathy spent several years painting portraits and landscapes in Malawi as well as running a small nursery school.
Later moving to the Gambia, Cathy worked for two years with young, unemployed Gambians creating original Batik pictures for hotels and the tourist market. This resulted in a small industry which, thirty years later, still survives as an art form in the Gambia.
Returning to the UK saw the start of over twenty years’ as an Art teacher and it was only on retirement that she began painting again for herself. In 2006 she decided to bring herself up to date with an MA in Fine Arts in Canterbury, Her time is now divided between her own work and being an art tutor for a wide range of aspiring artists in her own Kent studios.