Arts and Minds: A ‘Heart-Work’ Conversation

By Sheila Ceccarelli (artist) and Yael Pilowsky Bankirer (Psychotherapist)

Week two with students at Cambourne Village College as part of the ‘Young People’s Pilot’, coordinated and managed by Arts and Minds, a leading arts and mental health charity in Cambridgeshire.

Teenagers were introduced to graphite, charcoal, masking tape and acrylic paint as mediums for communal expressive mark making. A collective drawing was produced, whereby students were encouraged to work in collaboration and in response to each other.

This session was also about building up a repertoire of mark making experience and a vocabulary for working together.

Three separate ‘canvases’ were produced by three different groups.

Back to “Heart-Work” Arts and Wellbeing Project

First Marks

Graphite, Charcoal and Masking Tape

Arts and Minds - Cambourne VC - Week Two - SC

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Sketchbook Exercise: Drawing Brushes with Charcoal

Filling a Sketchbook: Sketchbook Exercises

What is a Canvas?

Making drawings which compete with the background

Making a Charcoal Animation

Inspired by the animations of William Kentridge

Making Ruler Drawings

Using 2 grades of pencil and only straight lines

Drawing Brushes with Charcoal

Using varied marks to capture the qualities of brushes

Many thanks to Pink Pig International for the sketchbooks

Filling a Sketchbook: Ruler Drawings

50 Minutes Looking and Sketching Autumn Leaves

Monoprinting with Oil Pastel and Carbon Copy Paper

Paula Briggs introduces children in her drawing class , aged 6 – 9 to drawing fossils and carbon paper as a medium for monoprinting.

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

What is a Canvas? Exploration Activity

Teenagers Use Touch to Draw and Explore Small Objects

“Feely Drawings” or Drawing by Touch – a 5 minute drawing exercise

This short icebreaker or warm up exercise, led by Paula Briggs at the Drawing Workshops for ages 6 to 10, encourages the children to relax into their drawing session.