Children’s Art School are interested in looking at the content that is produced for children’s magazines and asking children to cast a critical eye over the things supposedly produced for them. We will then ask them design their own visual magazine that will be printed professionally.

Pelham After-School Art Club (Autumn Term Project)

This term at Pelham Primary Schools’ art club we will be commemorating Pelham’s willow tree, before it is sadly felled to make room for much needed classrooms.

We started by documenting the tree in preparation for the project. We drew quick sketches and made rubbings outside in fine liner, charcoal, wax and pencil. We looked up into the canopy, at the shapes of the brances, and the texture of the bark up close. We took impressions of the bark by pressing  clay into the surface of the tree.