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26th June 2012

Areas: making of paintings portraits workshops

Last weekend I facilitated a series of portrait workshops in Downpatrick as part of the Down Community Arts art space project. The project aims to offer everybody the opportunity to try art by providing a series of free art workshops taken by professional artists located in public areas.

Below I’ve included the portraits of Katy Perry and Kiera Knightley I did for the workshop along with a speed painting video of how I painted the Kiera Knightley portrait.

The next free portrait workshop that I will be facilitating will be at The market Square in Ballynahinch on 21st July from 10am till 3pm.

Ready for my next student.. © Copyright David McClelland 2012. All rights reservedKaty Perry portrait, acrylic on paper.. © Copyright David McClelland 2012. All rights reservedKiera Knightley portrait, acrylic on paper.. © Copyright David McClelland 2012. All rights reservedPortrait speed painting of Kiera Knightley by David McClelland.. © Copyright David McClelland 2012. All rights reserved

25th May 2011

Areas: character design comics workshops

Last weekend I was one of the many tutors at the Family Fun Weekend at the Belfast Waterfront Hall.

I was leading a comic book workshop for 8-14yrs teaching them how to create their own characters and story culminating in an eight-page comic.  With the help of the http://www.youngatart.co.uk<Young at Art><blank> volunteers we made badges of our characters, which really added value to the comic. 

It was intriguing to see how the children’s stories differed between the age ranges. I noticed that a few of the older children seemed to be hampered by the idea that they had to create something similar to what they’d already seen in comics or on television to make it worthwhile. Whereas the majority of the younger children were happy to experiment with their character and story creating some story lines that were truly unique.

This made me think that whilst I need to create illustrations that conform to what people already understand I shouldn’t allow it to hamper my creativity.
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