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Sheila Ceccarelli

Sheila ceccarelli

Sheila as a Swift by Tobi Meuwissen

Co-Founder

Sheila Ceccarelli studied sculpture at Norwich School of Art and later at the Royal College of Art. In 1999 Sheila formed AccessArt with her friend Paula Briggs and together they built and co-directed the organisation until October 2020.

“We’ve put swift boxes up this year and enjoyed watching them all summer. That’s my favourite bird at the moment.”

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AccessArt Drawing for Mindfulness Prompt Cards

AccessArt Drawing Prompt Cards

Detail from Flowers in a Glass Vase, by Jan Davidsz. de Heem (c) The Fitzwilliam Museum

Be Inspired by Flowers in a Glass Vase by Jan Davidsz de Heem

Studio - Colour - Fitzwilliam Cupid and Psyche

Inspire 2020: Introducing Colour and Egg Tempera on a Gesso Panel

Year One boy at Hauxton Primary School drawing leaves with pastels with Pamela Stewart for Inspire

Inspired! ‘The Tree’ by Year One and Two at Hauxton Primary School

WILLINGHAM BOYS COLLAB PAINTING (1) Inspire Fitz

Cupid and Psyche: How a Fifteenth-Century Renaissance Panel Became the Most Loved Painting in Cambridgeshire

Looking at Cupid and Psyche by Sellaio in The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

Inspire 2020: Teachers

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‘Meet and Make’ Teacher CPD Event and Resource Share

CMY - Working big - SC Artworks with Scola Acrylic Paint

Painting a Bluebell Forest in Cyan, Magenta and Process Yellow on a Large Scale

Inspired by Edgar Degas: Printmaking, Drawing & Sculpture at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge with AccessArt

Inspired by Edgar Degas: Printmaking, Drawing & Sculpture at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge with AccessArt

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Making Sculpture Inspired by Degas

Using the pipette to drag ink across the drawing

How to Make Beautiful, Liquid Drawings Inspired by Degas

"L'Avenue du Bois" - The Avenue of Trees in the Bois du Boulogne, by Degas, Edgar; French artist, 1834-1917; Black carbon ink on India paper, height 118mm, width 161mm, circa 1880.

Making Monotypes Inspired by Degas

The following week, Portia set to paint her BFG

Handle with Care! Why Teaching Art to Primary School Children is Still Important

Colour Mixing with different water based painting mediums - SC

Exploring Primary Colours and Progressing from Powder Paint to Gouache and Acrylic

The BFG by Portia

Year 3 Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake Homework

The AccessArt Village at Brentwood Road Gallery - working with year nine students from Frances Bardsley Academy - SC

The AccessArt Village and How a Small Idea can be Big

Still life elements in candle light - Exp teenagers - SC

Composite Still Life Studies in Candlelight

Finished house - free standing - by a year five pupil at Berry Hill Primary School, Mansfield

Making an Ink and Wax Village with Pupils in Mansfield

Portia's Lyre - Ancient Greeks - Sc

Making a Lyre Inspired by the Ancient Greeks

Drawing for Mindfulness at Chesterton Community College, Cambridge

Drawing as a Tool for Wellbeing at Chesterton Community College, Cambridge

Pupil at Ridgefield Primary School and her 'Archer Fish'

Fabulous Fish

Under the Water Mirrors - SC - Ridgefield

Under the Ocean Mirrors

Finished Oyster - Ridgefield

Making Shells

Ta dah! And now to see if they float!... SC Ridgefield

Making Boats that Float Out of Everyday Materials

Example of one more constraint Susie Olczak

Sculptural Constraints Workshop by Susie Olczak

Horizontal: Now drop the pencil so it's lying horizontally across the paper

The Anatomy of a Pencil

Some of Astrid's sketchbook entires _ Sketchbook ideas SC

Using Sketchbooks to Take Ownership of Ideas

Bluebell forest by teenagers at AccessArt's Experimental Drawing Class

Be Inspired to Inspire

Reid drawing steel and glass with Melissa Murray

Drawing with Objects by Melissa Pierce Murray

Scolaquip - Experimenting with canvases - SC

Teenagers Paint a Canvas with Scolaquip

Mayan Project SC

Mayan Tabletop Eraser Printing Project

Playing a game of association with drawing, documented on a mobile phone with photo burst app

Using Mobile Phones to Make Animated Films

Carnival mask - SC

Making Paper Masks for Carnival and Mardi Gras

Melissa - Glow in the dark - teenagers - SC

Teenagers Experiment with Glow in the Dark Paint and Rice with Artist Melissa Pierce Murray

Belvue

AccessArt helps teachers at Belvue School to get ready for a Drawing Week

Belvue week three

Play and Placement: Teachers Explore Approaches to Drawing

Belvue - week two - SC

Teachers Explore Pattern, Shape & Texture with Charcoal, Graphite, Masking Tape and Pastels

Belvue_INSET -week 1 - SC

Teachers Battle it Out in Conversation with Marks on Paper

Building - Cambourne - week eight - SC

Arts and Minds: Building to the Limit

Clay - Cambourne - week nine- SC

Arts and Minds: Manipulating Clay with Water

Collage - Cambourne VC - SC

Arts and Minds: Constructing the World with Collage

Arts and Minds - Cambourne - week six - monoprinting - SC

Arts and Minds: Expressive Monoprinting on a Big Scale

Arts and Minds - Cambourne - week five - SC

Arts and Minds: Drawing for Mindfulness

Arts and Minds Cambourne Village College - Week four

Arts and Minds: Feeling Through Drawing

Arts and Minds - Asemic Writing - week three -SC

Arts and Minds: Asemic Writing and Invented Text

Arts and Minds - Cambourne VC - Week Two - SC

Arts and Minds: A ‘Heart-Work’ Conversation

Arts and Minds - Week 1 - SC

Arts and Minds: Time to Introduce Ourselves – A Sculpture Challenge

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Teachers Explore ‘Line and Shape’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge with AccessArt

Print Revealed

Teachers Play with Plasticine to Make Prints in the Education Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Browsing the Print Collection

Gathering Marks and Tearing Paper to Appreciate Prints by Goya, Turner and Cornelius at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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Making Sculptural Interpretations of 18th Century Portraits at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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Using Drawing to Get Closer to 18th Century Portraits at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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Making Sketchbooks at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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Using Sketchbooks, Drawing and Reflective Tools in the 20th Century Gallery at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Teachers explore armour with Kate Noble

Thoughtful Drawing and Mark Making in the Armoury at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Construction lanterns - SC

Making Giant Withie Lanterns

Experimental Drawing - SC

50 Minutes Looking and Sketching Autumn Leaves

Letter to Self - SC - Miluka

Teenagers Write A Letter, A Postcard, A Poem or A Narrative in Invented Text

Drawing with touch - SC

Teenagers Use Touch to Draw and Explore Small Objects

'R' for Reid - SC

Time to Introduce Ourselves – Initial Sculpture!

Careful control of spiral

Drawing Spirals

Hands

Brushes, Rollers and Dabbers – Year 4 Pupils Use Mixed Media to Make Mark Making Tools

And for some a fully immersive experience!

Our River – Year Five Pupils Build a Communal Drawing in Four Steps

Measuring and mounting work

Choosing, Mounting, Showing and Celebrating Art Work by Teenagers

Graffiti floor - teenagers SC

Graffiti Floor – Teenagers Have a Silent Conversation with Pen and Mark

Pupil explores composition with cut out shapes and stencils

Year Three Pupils Explore Stencils, Composition and Expressive Mark Making with Oil Pastels

Teachers begin their Exploration!

Monoprinting Inspired by Goya, Turner and Cornelius in the Education Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Mark making in response to other marks

Teachers Make Mark Making Tools and ‘Battle it Out’ with Ink on a Spring InSET Day

lola explores Poison Tree, William Blake

Using Monoprinting and Sketchbooks to Explore GCSE English Literature Poetry

Emma scores her coil ready for the next layer

Rowan: Clay Coiling Techniques to Make Penguins, Tweety Pie and a Dalek too!

Developing a group of drawings - student goes on to switch between processes and drawings

Water and Rock: Teenagers explore building drawings with graphite and modroc

Hedgehog mask by a pupil at Milton Road Primary School

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week Three

Pupil from Milton Road Primary School makes her animal mask 3D

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week Two

Catholic Martyrs Inset

Teachers Start the New Year with Sketchbooks

Lepeord

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week One

Drawing a flame

Drawing Flames

Squeezing clay

How To Clay Play

And a dog

Long Legged Animals by Years 3 & 4 Making Club

Finished work by Derek

Red to Green: Wax Resist and Scraffito

Luke, learner at Red2Green delighted with his finished sculpture in the Arts Council funded Aspire to Create project

Red to Green: Making Sculpture

Learner at Red2Green drawing a skull on loan from University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology

Red to Green: Steps to Observational Drawing

Nikki revealing his print

Red to Green: Monoprinting

Tutor's Jeanette and Sharon at Red2Green look at Andrew's work

Red to Green: Block Printing

Learner at Red2Green using graphite to take rubbings of lace and natural materials

Red to Green: Taking Rubbings and Making Compositions

Working with wire at Red2Green

Red to Green: Patterns in Nature, Line and Wire

Window dedicated to naturalist Leonard Jenyns at St. Mary’s Swaffham Bulbeck - photo by Aspirations learner

Aspire to Create: Inspired by Nature & Empowered by Creativity – Red to Green

Student examines his work and looks at the detail captured by the clay

Red to Green: Casting

Experimental drawing windy day

Windy Day Drawing: What was it really all about?

miluka's pleated form

3D Drawing with Paper: Texture – Surface – Structure

Production of still life drawings

Bold Autumn Still Life

Exploring form and function at D&T and Making Club

Years 3 and 4 D&T and Making Club

40 Minute Cardboard and Double-Sided Sticky Tape Engineering Challenge

The goat stars again.

Teenagers Improvise a Shadow Puppet Play

Pupils took it in turns

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animating Articulated Beasts

Hedgehog

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Articulated Beasts

Finished articulated lion by Innes

Articulated and Animated Drawings by Teenagers at AccessArt’s Experimental Drawing Class

Eagle by Reid - Student at AccessArt

Sculptural Birds in Flight by Teenage Makers

Pupils very pleased with themselves! And jolly well right that they should be!

Brave Young Makers: Year Three Pupils at Ridgefield Primary Transform Materials into Birds and Insects

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Pattern and Collage: A Whole School Workshop at Monkfield Primary School

scrap store ribbon

A Wealth of Materials in Scrapstores

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Making Sea Sculptures at Culford School, Suffolk

Make a Sketchbook, Ideas Book or Travel Journal this Summer!

Draw your mum from memory - Drawing prompt by teenager at AccessArt's Drawing Class for Teenagers

Teenagers Make Prompts to Overcome White Page Syndrome

Printmaking with Salvaged Sticky Back Aluminium Foil, Mixed Media and Cardboard

Students from AccessArt's Experimental Drawing Class drawing the street

Street Drawing: Exploring Vanishing Points with Masking Tape

Horse

Animal Sculpture and Collage with Students at Philip Southcote School, Surrey

Ingo gathers his felt together to start to form with his hands

Teenagers Make Small Sculptures: Exploring Felt-Making and Transforming Materials

Looking at detail and drawing with black pen

Houses from Around the World: International Day at Monkfield Primary School

Exploring Materials: Merino Wool and Water and Making Felt

Students work frantically while the plaster goes off1

Exploring Materials: Plaster and String

Make sure that the the blender is unplugged and use a rolling pin to push the paper down into the water 1

Exploring Materials: Paper and Water and Making Paper

Clay Shona explores1

Exploring Materials: Clay and Water

Gothic Revival: Craft Techniques for the Class Room Inspired by the Leach Firm of Cambridge

‘Pouncing’: A Simple Technique to Transfer Patterns onto Plaster Tablets

How to Make a Tessellated Design

Izzy works on a big scale

Using Sketchbooks to Inform Larger Work

Izzy develops her ideas and introduces new elements

Sketching from a Source and Using Photocopies to Develop a Sketchbook Approach

Adam's print revealed!

Making Big Monotypes with Sheila Ceccarelli

Drawing someone drawing

Sketchbooks: Drawing Someone Drawing Something

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Walking Sketchbooks

Teenagers Work on an Art Project for the Community

Teenagers Work on an Art Project for the Community

Ingo's shoe

Using a Folded Sketchbook to Get Drawing!

Students at AccessArt's Experimental Drawing Class look through their work

Looking, Talking and Celebrating

Thinking and Making

Jasmine works with spashes of spring colour painting cherry blossoms

Colour Mixing with Cyan, Magenta and Yellow Colour Mixing

Eloise working

Colour Mixing with Cyan Magenta Yellow

Stilts

Cardboard Sculptures

working with wire and paper

Drawing and Making Flowers

Kitty works in charcoal with invented forms and spontaneous mark making

Teenagers Explore Expressive Drawing with Charcoal and Soft Pastels

Eloise works into Chaya's drawing again

Drawing to Music

Isla rolls out acrylic paint onto acetate for monoprinting

Using monoprint to Create a Textured Collage: Toy Farmyard and Woodland Animal Still Life

Libby placing her minimalised drawings on the wall as she completes them

Minimalising: Using Simple Line Drawings to Explore Sculptural Form

Winter Still Life

Winter Still Life

Sea Turtle, by Tilly

Skull Sculptures: using Paper and Tape to Interpret Form

Students draw skulls, on loan from University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, in candle light

Drawing Skulls in Candle Light

Finished study of a Dog Skull by Kitty, aged 11

Drawing Skulls in Black Pen

Amy's 'Sea Urchin', A1 in charcoal

Drawing Shells Big in Charcoal

Shell from University Museum of Zoology

Drawing Shells On Loan From The University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge

Amy and Kitty working

Asemic Writing: Expressive Mark Making through Invented Text

Adam drawing bubbles

Drawing Bubbles

Portrait of a class

Drawing Portraits: Celebrating Class Success!

Ines by Eloise

Video Art Using a Compact Digital Camera

Nina takes a photo of her puppet on a devise

Animating Puppets Using Mobile Phones and Tablets

Nina

Making Puppets with Mixed Media

Making a Sculptural Mask

Making a Sculptural Modroc Mask

Battle of the strokes

Group Painting Activity: Teenagers ‘Battle it Out’ with Acrylic Paint

Adam's final piece

Still Life Drawing in a Cubist Style Using Carbon Paper

Mia's final enclosed space: Newspaper and art straws

Making Sculptures: Enclosing Space

Mono printing - By Nina

Making Mono Prints For Teenagers

Lottie's finished sculpture

Reaching the Limit: Making Tall Sculptures and Stretching Materials

Working with vertical

Standing Up! – Making Vertical Sculptures and Working from the Base

All about you

Draw Together: Autobiographical Drawing

Drawing space - Drawing alone or together

Draw Together: Drawing Space

Student working - Drawing feeding making - tree growing from the paper - on the wall

Experimenting with Mixed Media and Exploring Materials

Drawing cloth - tonal shading

Drawing Cloth with Water Soluble Graphite

Anna moves freely between drawing in space and drawing on paper

Landscape Sculptures in Wire and Mixed Media: Working Through Ideas

Integrated process of visual note taking

Drawing and Making: Drawing to Feed Making – Making to Feed Drawing

Mia's Lanterns

Making Lanterns with Tissue Paper and Wire

Negative space - by Amy

Drawing Negative Space

Exotic Insect on loan from the insect room at the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology

Drawing Insects Big

Drawing of a 'Scorpion' from the University Museum, Cambridge, Handling Collection

Drawing Exotic Insects from the Insect Room in the University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology

Halloween Still Life - Roses

Halloween Still Life Using Acrylic Paint

Insect in pen in continuous line

Drawing Insects in Black Pen

Lottie makes her wire 'drawing' inspired by her continuous line drawing of a moth

Drawing Insects in Wire and Tracing Shadows in Black Pen

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Drawing Birds with Mixed Media: Creating Effects with Oil Pastels, Crayons and Ink Washes

Wolf by Jasmine

Experimenting With Batik – Using Hot Wax and Dyes on Fabric

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Drawing Insects with an H Pencil

Sara's finished piece

Teenagers Teach Teenagers How to Use Stencils to Make Acrylic Spray Paint Prints

Sara finished

Making a Stencil from a Picture

Drawing Shiny Cutlery!

Drawing Shiny Cutlery with Charcoal

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Withy Sculptures

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Making a Carnival Mask

Bug!

Making Insect Sculptures

Fish

Making a Festival Feast from Modroc

The finished puppet

Making a Marionette

Charm Bracelets

How to Make Charm Bracelets

Finished blind contour drawing of lace

Making a Blind Contour Drawing

Bird made from newspaper and modroc

Making Modroc Sculpture

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Acrylic Painting: ‘Food, Glorious Food’

Gestural Mark Making with Acrylics

Gestural Mark Making with Acrylic Paint

drawing faces: chalk drawing

Drawing Faces: Introducing Chalk and Compressed Charcoal

Visual arts planning portraits: Drawing Portraits without Looking at the Paper

Look Up, Not Down – Portrait Drawing Exercises

Charcoal Finger Palette Portraits

Finger Palette Portraits – Fingerprint Drawing

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