Celebrating Lincolnshire's wild plants! Open call for artists (aged 16+) internationally! FREE entry, deadline extended: 9 March 2021
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust is excited to announce an Open Call for artists, amateur or professional, to submit A5-sized artwork for an online showcase where all received pieces will be auctioned. We aim to host a 2021 exhibition (COVID-19 rules permitting) where 30 selected artworks will be projected onto buildings at sites around Lincolnshire. More info here.
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust is excited to announce an Open Call for artists, amateur or professional, to submit A5-sized artwork for an online showcase where all received pieces will be auctioned. We aim to host a 2021 exhibition (COVID-19 rules permitting) where 30 selected artworks will be projected onto buildings at sites around Lincolnshire. More info here.
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Try this! A creative workshop drawing someone we love, and learning about famous artists along the way! Join us any time to take part in this 40 minute session with Tate Kids and artist Joey Yu. https://bit.ly/3qMJmou
Using our bodies to make art! Join artist Harold Offeh, stretch out, warm up and make some arty shapes and prints. Join in and see more from Tate Kids: https://bit.ly/3oRI4ax Play with Collage Follow along with the video to make a collage using bold shapes, and a collage portrait. |
Alford Arts, part of Alford Craft Market, is running a giveaway Sketchbook Competition! Alford Arts will be an Art gallery and Community Arts facility in Alford in the main Market Place – hopefully opening later this year.
All 100 kits have now gone to the entrants. Here are some sketches that have come in - we want to know how you are getting on so please send us sketches along the way.
If you live in Alford or the surrounding area up to a 6 mile radius we have 100 Sketchbook kits to give away with a prize for each age group 10 – 13 years, 14 – 17 years and Adult. Each kit contains an A5 hardback 80-page sketchbook, 12 coloured crayons, a tin of soft sketching pencils, a sharpener and competition instructions.
All 100 kits have now gone to the entrants. Here are some sketches that have come in - we want to know how you are getting on so please send us sketches along the way.
If you live in Alford or the surrounding area up to a 6 mile radius we have 100 Sketchbook kits to give away with a prize for each age group 10 – 13 years, 14 – 17 years and Adult. Each kit contains an A5 hardback 80-page sketchbook, 12 coloured crayons, a tin of soft sketching pencils, a sharpener and competition instructions.
Enter the competition to receive your Sketchbook kit by messaging us via our Alford Craft Market Facebook page or by email to alfordcraftmarket@gmail.com . Requests for kits will be on a strict first come, first served basis. Sketchbook kits will be delivered safely to you by the Alford Hub volunteers so be sure to give us your address. When you receive your sketchbook please write your name, address, email and telephone number clearly on the first page.
A sketchbook is a visual notebook that many artists use to briefly capture the things they see around them, or ideas they may have, which they will then refer to when the time comes for them to start a larger piece of work.
We want you to fill this book of blank pages with drawings of things you see around you at home, in your garden, from your window or on the Internet. Could be a member of your family, a portrait of a friend from a photo, your pets, a group of household objects (still life) or anything you see in your daily life or in your own imagination. How about sketches of sport or fashion or nature?
You have 30 days (approximately to the end of February) to fill the notebook, drawing on the right hand page, notes and dates on the left. You may want to spend more time on some of the sketches and develop them into finished pictures. Use the colouring pencils for this - it is entirely up to you. We will let you know where to bring your sketchbook for judging.
The Alford Arts team will do the judging and they will be looking for originality, good observation, imagination, and diverse and interesting subjects.
For the best sketchbook in each age group the prize will be an Artway Art Kit – a great kit of everything you need to keep drawing, painting and mark making.
We will be showing photos from all the sketchbooks over the coming months on our new Alford Arts Facebook page – you can choose to remain anonymous, or we can use your first name. We will contact you if we want to use one of your drawings on the Facebook page and we may ask you if you would like your sketchbook to be part of a public exhibition by Alford Arts later in the year.
Your sketchbook will be returned to you after the judging has taken place.
The ALFORD CRAFT MARKET, SHOP AND CRAFT CENTRE ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE A NEW PROJECT FOR ALFORD - ALFORD ARTS.
We have been offered a lease on this handsome shop in Alford Market Place, which used to be Lloyds the Chemist and has been empty for over a year.
Situated just next door but one to our Alford Craft Market Shop & Centre it will make an ideal setting for a Gallery and Community Arts Centre to add to the other projects we have set up in Alford.
It will enable us to show the work of some of the best of our Lincolnshire artists and offer an inspirational space for Art classes, exhibitions and special events. Also a great addition to the many visitor attractions we already have in Alford!
We are now searching for grants for the refit, and hope to be open by Summer 2021. It will be something to look forward to and cheer us all up next year. Wish us luck!
We have been offered a lease on this handsome shop in Alford Market Place, which used to be Lloyds the Chemist and has been empty for over a year.
Situated just next door but one to our Alford Craft Market Shop & Centre it will make an ideal setting for a Gallery and Community Arts Centre to add to the other projects we have set up in Alford.
It will enable us to show the work of some of the best of our Lincolnshire artists and offer an inspirational space for Art classes, exhibitions and special events. Also a great addition to the many visitor attractions we already have in Alford!
We are now searching for grants for the refit, and hope to be open by Summer 2021. It will be something to look forward to and cheer us all up next year. Wish us luck!
Here is something to get your artistic side started! There is a 6 week online course from CLIP on Creative Journaling starting on the 21st January, 2021 for £10 - here is the link
Creative journaling is a way of making a permanent record of the good things in life, significant events, your feelings, and your progress towards personal goals. Creative Journaling is a form of mindfulness practice and one of the most powerful tools known to gain personal insight, solve problems and explore new ideas without the pressure to make it look good or make sense to others. There are no rules! You can write, draw, use collage, add photos, anything goes. The aim of this course is to help you start on your own journaling journey by enabling you to develop an understanding of how journaling can benefit you, getting you started with journaling ideas, page layouts and techniques.
Creative journaling is a way of making a permanent record of the good things in life, significant events, your feelings, and your progress towards personal goals. Creative Journaling is a form of mindfulness practice and one of the most powerful tools known to gain personal insight, solve problems and explore new ideas without the pressure to make it look good or make sense to others. There are no rules! You can write, draw, use collage, add photos, anything goes. The aim of this course is to help you start on your own journaling journey by enabling you to develop an understanding of how journaling can benefit you, getting you started with journaling ideas, page layouts and techniques.
