Reflecting back to Egyptian era style and fashion, we decided to create our very own pair of Egyptian sandals. Taking inspiration from the cloths shoes and jewelry of the Egyptians. We first created our sandal structure by drawing around our shoes onto cardboard to make sure we had the exact shoe size for each student. From there we cut out those shapes and added our shoe structure on top, so they could be worn for fun. Then it was onto painting, collage and drawing to make

Taking a focused look at vases and vassals from the Roman and Greek era. Vinspace created a lesson on the style, patterns and symbols of Roman and Greek Vases. The class started off by looking at and analysing old photos of vases. From there they drew out their shape of choice, then proceed to fill in their vase drawing with different coloured pastels. We then went onto mix black paint with washing up liquid, to paint over the drawings with. This process allows us to scratch

Taking steps through the Egyptian era we came to one of the most interesting elements: Mummies and Tombs. For this project we created our tombs with clay, building up the basic shape with the coiling technique. Then we moved on to refine the shapes and details of the clay work with our tools. Each student approached and developed their mummies with their own personal style and some even had stories about the life their mummies had lived as Pharaohs. In the second part of this

Taking our artists through history with our Summer Camp Syllabus we have covered many eras of time. One of our top lessons so far was walking them through the Egyptian era all the way back to wall murals, symbols, ancient mummies and tombs. To fully immerse our little artists into the project, we felt it called for some interactive ways of working. So, to create our wall murals; we let them draw and paint directly onto the Vinspace studio walls. This caused great excitement a

To kick-start our pre-history themed classes the VinSpace team based the first set of classes on the Paleolithic arts. We started out first Summer Camp class on Animal Cave painting and sculpting caves together as a team. The class started off looking at ancient cave pictures and drawings to gain inspiration. Then we asked each of them to think and consider what they would draw to communicate their actions of their day-to-day life, whilst drawing in the style of a caveman. We

One of our teachers Jess hosted a wonderful lino print field trip with some students from the European International School. Feeling inspired by famous artists such as Katsushika Hokusai and MC Escher Jess led a two hour workshop demonstrating the how focusing on markmaking and overlaying colours can create beautiful and intricate images. Repeatedly carving into plate gradually adds depth to your design with each layer of new colour you add. The process demonstrates dedicatio

Being art teachers, we ask ourselves every day what we should do with the kids. It was a simple question at the beginning. We were full of ideas and full of energy that we could go with anything. There are thousands things that we want to share with the kids and thousands creative activities that we could do together. Years gone by, slowly, it feels like no more to talk and no more to teach. It’s not the fact that we ran out of ideas or we lost the enthusiasm to teach, it’s t