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Mencap Saturday Club -Robot Races

It was a beautifully hot day, so we worked outside shaded under a tree, making horse and rider thaumatropes linking in with the Paralympics and built mini robots with walking...

Mencap Holiday Club -Tropical watercolours

I thought I would try the sunset workshop with this holiday group, but instead of using the acetone transfer technique we drew our images through carbon paper, then layered washes...

Mencap Holiday Club -Circus

In the morning the group had been working on circus performances, so I continued by running a workshop making circus thaumatropes and vintage decoupage pictures with balancing performing animals.  

Mencap Saturday Club -Tropical theme

We painted and glazed our decorative clay pebbles with beautiful results.   Then with the theme of summer everyone created watercolour sunsets, layering tropical images of flamingos, palm trees and...

Mencap Saturday Club -Seashell puzzles

I ran a workshop firstly concentrating on clay, making small pebbles and decorative pieces using cookie cutters, and making impressions and patterns from found objects such as cut glass vases,...

Royal Academy Summer Competition

A watercolour painting of Jean Paul submitted to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.