The Education Centre in association with Kings Place Music Foundation and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment will be hosting a day of free drawing activities for families.
Fully booked
Supported by cartoonists, artists, illustrators and designers, the day is an opportunity to learn more about the wide range of art that contributes to the Guardian and Observer and to take part in a range of drawing and craft activities.
All sessions are designed for ages and abilities and your family will be able to:
- take part in a whole range of drawing, art and creative activities.
- design cartoons, caricatures and cartoon strips.
- learn new drawing techniques and tips.
- make some crafty creations.
- participate in a drawing activities inspired by live classical music.
- listen to talks by professional cartoonists, artists and illustrators.
Each session runs for two hours. The morning session starts at 10.30 and runs until 12.30pm. The afternoon session starts at 2pm and runs until 4pm.
This event is aimed at families and all children must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
Fully booked
Below are some comments from families who took part in last year.
Martin Rowson' s talk was brilliant and he was a very friendly illustrator.
Brilliant! The variety of different activities was inspired. So nice that grown ups could join in.
Just a quick message to say a big "thank you" for the cartoon day – both my son and I really enjoyed the morning spent with you, particularly
with Kipper Williams who was really encouraging to my son: he has been
practicing his cartoon witches ever since! We have attended for the last
couple of years and will certainly come along next year.
What I liked the most was the musicians played the piece I made.
Really great – the fact there was a varied selection of things to do was great. Hector says "It's awesome.!" Thank you, we've really enjoyed ourselves. Hector particularly liked drawing with Sally Kindberg.
We really enjoyed the caricature workshop with Martin Rowson.
I liked the printing and the comic making. It was fun. Oh, and the Guardian planet front of a newspaper thing.
The thing I liked the best was everything. I liked Chris Riddell a lot but I also liked all the activities in the Hall. I can't wait to come back!
I liked my shark I made in the deep-sea drawing activity.
I liked Halloween cards with Kipper the best!
The Mono prints were fantastic as was Chris Riddell. We loved writing music and the musicians playing it. It was a great morning. Many thanks
We loved writing music for the musicians, printing, dox matrix, newspaper front page and meeting Martin Rowson.
We all had a great time and my friend's kids thoroughly enjoyed themselves. We particularly liked the Reverse Postbox and the pigeons and Kipper Williams did some amazing cards.
What a great opportunity for my daughter to interact with art and music. My daughter (2 1/2) is very proud of her pigeon.
We loved minute miniatures, hang out your washing, comic strip monsters and alien invasion.
I really enjoyed the dot making because it was very challenging. In order to create a successful picture I had to painstakingly place many stickers on to a large grid. It was my favourite event.
I liked the monsters (cartoon strips) and the frogs (frog diving) as I like creative things to do.
The Picasso plates and all the drawing things were good.
Owl making was great. Thank you very much!
I liked the 3D cubes (geometric drawing) and the monster comic strip maker.
My favourite thing was making my own print drawing.
I liked the light box and the Halloween witch.
Monster cartoons and Tom Daly frog pictures were fab.
I especially liked the drawing the rest of the witch in the Wenlock room with Angela!
I loved the reverse postbox.
I really enjoyed the alien front-page cover. It took ages but the finished result was AWESOME. Thank you so much for everything.
I made a good pigeon today and it was really fun using all the different materials and then writing a special message in them.
Mono printing was my fave but I also liked the cartoons.
I liked the dot things 10/10. The aliens were really good and the teachers were really cool.
I loved the Chris Riddell talk. I really liked the spotty things and the aliens were awesome. 100% Legendary!
My favourite things were making who you are masks and the monster comic strip.
I really really enjoyed making a brain in the who do you want to be? activity.
My three kids all loved the snail table, the monster cartoons and the dot matrix.
I liked mono printing, frog diving, pigeons, and the washing line. It was all brilliant especially Andrew Logan.
What I liked about the Big Draw is that it lets your imagination flow into you art so it can run wild.
