Intergenerational Art Project
The young people from the Amp project (Ancoats and Miles Platting youth action) engaged with members of the Have Your Say team and project member's parents in an inter-generational arts project.
The project was a taster in all the various arts medias for example; oil on canvas, water colours, portraits and mosaics.
Hopefully the skills that the participants gained through the project will help stop people saying "I can't draw". Well! From the work that was produced (and soon to be exhibited) there is strong evidence to support the fact that they can draw extremely well in fact.
Thank you now over to Ryan, one of the young people with AMP ...
Our first session with Debbie the artist was drawing still life. The subject was fruit on a plate. We drew the outline with charcoal then we coloured it with pastels. Then we went on to water colours and painted a beach scene. At another session we were using oil paints, we all tried to do self portraits. Oil painting on canvas takes a long time to dry, so we left them for a few days and went on to use acrylic paints on canvas boards, we could choose what we wanted to draw. At another session when the portraits were drier we worked on them again to finish them off.
We also had a go at Mosaics and everyone who was at the sessions finished them.
Debbie also told us about health and safety, because the tiles used for mosaics are sharp and she warned us that we could get a nasty cut if we didn't take care.
The ages of the people on the art course were between of eleven years and sixty years, and everyone said they enjoyed it.