Category Archives: Paper Decorating
Announcing: Summer Camps!
Isadora’s Workshop at l’Observatoire
Summer is upon us. Although there will be no camp this June, there will be two new camps this July, and two more in August. The number of participants is limited to 10, so make sure you sign up early!
In line with the new direction taken by Isadora’s Workshop, there will be more tinkering, more science and more discovery in these completely unique art-based workshops. Another novelty is that guest artists, scientists or tinkerers will make their appearance, giving the whole workshop new momentum. Art needs inspiration, so we are going out to get it, and coming back in to do it!
If you want to look at past workshops, check here.
And here are the workshops for this season:
Explorator’s Camp (July and August camps)
Come be a Robinson Crusoe for a week. Learn basic skills for the outdooor. Rope lashing, map-making and navigating, making objects from wood (wood-carving), documenting the world around you… Being an artist in the wild can be hard work, but is very rewarding!
Run by artist-scientist Isabelle Desjeux, these camps provide structured time to learn a skill and open time to discover and perfect personal interests. A guest artist will make an appearance, providing a different perspective!
Making friends is also a great part of the camp and we invite parents to join us on Friday, from 11:00am onward to come and view an exhibition of the works, and meet the new friends. Bring some food to share and we’ll have a picnic – outside if the weather permits.
Book-Making Camp (July camp only)
Run by artist-scientist Isabelle Desjeux, these camps provide structured time to learn a skill and open time to discover and perfect personal interests. A guest artist will make an appearance, providing a different perspective!
Print-Making Camp (August camp only)
Come spend a week re-discovering the ancient art of printmaking. From using naturally-collected material like leaves or wood to new recycled materials like milk-cartons, foam or lino, you will be given the opportunity to try different techniques and experiment with your own. Each participant will be given ample space for exploration and the opportunity to pursue their favorite medium.
Run by artist-scientist Isabelle Desjeux, these camps provide structured time to learn a skill and open time to discover and perfect personal interests. A guest artist will make an appearance, providing a different perspective!
Making friends is also a great part of the camp and we invite parents to join us on the very last day, from 11:00am onward to come and view an exhibition of the works, and meet the new friends. Bring some food to share and we’ll have a picnic.
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Submit this form for further information:Tintin, the 3 little pigs, and other original stories: Book-making week
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- Solenne, demonstrating the “TV”
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- Loïc, finishing his po-up book.
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- Malo and Solenne, using stamps for decorating inside their finished books.
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- The art table, in between two sessions
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- The material for decorating paper
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- Detail of the production.
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- After one week, children produced sets of notebooks, a Tintin mini-series, concertina books and even a “TV”.
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- What you can do with the decorated paper.
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- A pop-up book (detail)
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- Boxed books and concertina books
Holiday Workshops
Making Clay Creatures with the children, Photo Credit : Rubin Hashim
March is here and the children need a break. You’ve been asking for them, so here they are… open-studio workshops are back!
My studio will be open for easy, drop-in sessions. Just choose which day you’d like to come and come and join a small group of like-minded 5-12 year olds. The projects listed below are starting points – who knows what you’ll end up inventing! All the material is provided. Just bring an open mind.
On offer for the week of 14th to 18th of March 2011:
Wednesday is Make a Book. Learn the basics of book-making, design a few books from an A4 page, and come home with a colourful notebook.
Thursday is Polymer Clay. Learn how to make colourful patterns using polymer clay. Invent your own! Make marbles, beads or small creatures.
Friday is Clay Creatures … and their house. Make a polymer clay creature and then make them a house / flying saucer / jungle… to sleep in!
Fee:
$40 per child per session.
Book 2 (children or sessions) and get %10 off
Book 3 (children or session) and get 20% off!
Interested? Call 92734991 to book or send me a message, using the contact from below.
October: book workshop and holiday camp
Hand-decorated papers
What’s black and white and red all over? Not the books you make at the workshop, that’s for sure.
Bookmaking Workshop
This month’s parent-child workshops explores the concertina book. Choose from hand-painted papers for the covers, and colourful paper for the inside. After building the basic book, try to make it go further, using a needle and thread. Colourful result guaranteed. And you might be able to put your photographs inside too, or leave it blank, or cut it up some more!
Happening at 5, Hay Market
Saturday 13th 11th October, 2-4pm
4-7 years old must be accompanied by an adult.
Fees: $45 (single); $50 (parent-child team)
Holiday Camp
To coincide with the French School (LFS) and UWCSEA Holiday, there will be a 4-day printmaking camp 28 – 31st October.
Open to children from 7 years old, the workshop will only take 6 children this time. So, please sign up early!
A week with the children from Sok Sabay
If you are wondering why there are no workshop this school holiday, why the latest drawings from the drawing classes haven’t been pinned up, why I didn’t give any feedback on last month’s (very exciting) beads’ workshop, and why my very own work doesn’t seem to be progressing very fast, I owe you an explanation. Last week was “Art Exploration with the Children of Sok Sabay”. The premise is that these Cambodian children, who live in a Home in Cambodia, called Sok Sabay, come once a year to Singapore for a holiday and fund-raising week. And, boy, did these children work hard! I have been lucky enough to get invited last year to provide them with the inspiration, material and space to create art, and produce a piece to be sold at a fund-raising auction at the end of the week. The resulting acrylic painting can be viewed here. This year, I was delighted to see some of the same faces again. But the challenge was one step higher. So I enrolled Sophie Fort, as a children’s workshop specialist (She runs Wonder Art) to help channel all this raw energy. The result was as follows (click on the picture above to see the whole album):
Day 1:
27 “children”, 5 – 21 year olds, in the garden, in the studio, at the press. All of the older children and some of the younger ones got to produce their own paper print, and print on the press. Some played games and some did their own drawings, colourings and collages.
Day 2:
8 Teenagers (all girls!) invaded the studio with determined energy and learned the technique behind “Paper Decorating with Paste”. They all produced many colourful pieces.
Day 3:
Skipping their planned outing to the Bird Park, 5 determined teenagers stepped into the studio at 9 am, and left at 5 pm after hours of real art exploration. By this time, the girls understood that they were producing material to be incorporated into a very large collage. The themes of the collage being “Jeu de l’Oie”(a traditional French board game), and Journey, the girls chose images of their country, as well as personal images they liked to make prints from. For the background, they chose strong colours associated with Cambodian dancers (tones of red, orange, purples and gold).
Day 4:
On the final day, Sophie came to help put the piece together. Maïté Garnier, a friend who had helped with the children from Day 1, was also present to help. The children were not present on that day since the collaboration consisted of them producing the raw material, but Sophie and I producing the final Collage. Saturday Night, Auction time! The piece was finished on time Friday night, varnished and ready to be presented to the public on the next day. It was very successfully auctioned off – the children contributed through their hard work and dedication to raising money for buying a house for them all in Cambodia. From the hours the girls spent in the studio, there were also notebooks produced as well as original prints, that were sold on that evening. What a great week!
Finally, a warm thank-you to Judy de Mouillac for allowing us to work with these children, and for naming the final piece “Jeu de Joie”, Sophie Fort for working with me and contributing great ideas to the project, and Maïté Garnier for lending a helping hand and feeding the hordes at the drop of a hat!
