An enthusiastic group of 17 budding young artists attended Mat Tait’s two hour comic creations workshop at Richmond Library. Mat talked the group through the process of creating a comic strip which involved script writing and learning how to use different shots for effect just like in a film to tell a story. Each young artist wrote their own script and then as an added twist they had to swap their script with a buddy and illustrate the other person’s script. The finished outcome was a six panel black and white comic strip. At the end of the workshop Mat took the comic strips away to put together a comic book of the groups work.
- Local Marahau graphic artist Mat Tait giving Liam some inspiration for his comic strip illustrations
Young artist at work
Lizl Matthewson returned to us these holidays and ran two fun art workshops which saw children create their own portraits using mixed media. Mirrors, paints, pastels, bubble wrap, magazine photos, crayons and scissors were used to create the personal masterpieces. We had 20 children aged between 5 and 9 years attend the morning workshop and 12 young adults aged between 10 and 14 attend the second workshop after lunch.
Lizl getting the girls started on their self portraits
Getting messy with paints was a highlight for some
The Band Jam in the Imaginarium was also well attended and very popular with six young aspiring musicians. Paul McConachie taught the group how to record a song using guitars, vocals and GarageBand on the iMac.
~ Heather
