Here’s something cool I forgot all about from back in the summer of 2010, when we painted the court yard of the Sure Start childrens centre with children as young as 1 and their parents. Really hard to photograph, however did do a cool little photosynth of the work, secret garden theme…
Have been busy, busy, busy on projects, parties and graphics works. So finally got time to do a bit of an update. Lot’s of exciting stuff booked in for the coming months too so will try and keep on top of it a little more. Thank you for all the enquiries.
Just finished the film project with Positive Futures so should be able to show you the videos soon and have now started a photography project with them based around the Olympics.
On to a few images from January…
Working with years 5 and 6 at Bourne Abbey to create some new artwork for their year hallways and the new ICT learning centre. More images of the work on our Facebook page…
15th Birthday party graffiti workshop for Alice and her friends. Again more pictures in our Facebook album…
Here’s what Alice had to say…
“had an ace 15th party 8 girls doing graffitti, they all said it was such a brill party, had James come and do it in the garage, best time everrr!!!!:) xx”…
Working along side SoundLINCS who provide music activities for young people, I have been running various graffiti taster sessions across Lincolnshire, this is just some of the artwork produced by the young people. More yet again on our Facebook…
Quote from one of the young people…
“Had a great experience today spray-painting. Everyone enjoyed it and it makes you realise how much harder it is than just on paper. Hope we get a chance to do this again! “…
And from Gemma one of the staff..
“For myself it was the one activity that i have witnessed all the young people getting involved with and keeping their attention for the whole two hours which was amazing to see. They all appeared to get so much out of it and really enjoyed it so i hope you will be returning again.
The young people also wanted to say that they really enjoyed it and thought that you were really nice and talkative which is better than some people who have been before that are really shy and hard to talk too. They said that they have never done graffiti before but really want to do it again now you have been as all of them were really proud of their pieces and didnt realise they had it in them, they said they had all gained alot from the experience and hoped you would be coming again.
Thanks James for a truly enjoyable day, i would recommend james to anyone!!”…
The BBC News webiste have done a short write up and added a gallery of images about the painting of the old railway bridges we’ve been working on…
The next bridge in the rejuvenation has now been painted. The bridge is on Bowbridge Lane in Balderton. 8 Artists painted the huge area which can now be enjoyed by anyone using the cycle track. You can read some of the local coverage about the mural work here at The Newark Advertiser and local magazine InTouch. There is also a video of the days painting here. Thanks to Sustrans for giving us permission to paint their bridges too!…
Yesterday we ran a graffiti drawing and painting workshop for an all day art class at Alderbrook secondary school in Solihull, great bunch of guys and a fantastic day. Everyone created an individual board [see our Facebook page]and then we created an Olympics inspired bigger board for display at the school!…
Another quick graffiti board for Positive Futures as part of the film project we’re running, this time in Boston and featured on BBC Look North…
A quick board painted with a hoard of young people at Birchwood Youth Centre last night as part of the Positive Futures film project i’m running across Lincolnshire. Everyone had a great time, got some good footage and the centre have some new artwork to display…
To give us somewhere to paint and show our skills and to brighten up and create a more interesting environment. We have been given permission to paint many of the underside of bridges along the cycle track in Newark and Balderton, the first mural, on London Road has now been completed. You can watch the video of it here
The next bridge will be painted at the end of the month…
Final session of the Firecracker project was last night! We will be starting work on editing all the film footage with a few of the young people in a week or so. Great project and thanks to Acis for having us on board, thanks also to CGP for the great food and to everyone else who turned up to help. Let’s hope we can do it again next year. Will post up the finished film when we’re done…
‘Was delighted to return to Lincoln Castle Academy and paint a volcano mural in the Head of Geography’s classroom with 18 year 7 students. Excellent day, everyone happy with the results, now just to edit the video…