July 2019
Planet Food Cafe (CC)
Launched on the 10th of January 2019 - the newest affordable, inclusive cafe, opening for all of us, to help reduce food waste and put edible food on your plate ! Also loads of fresh produce will be available on a weekly basis. The cafe uses food donated from local stores and businesses, that would otherwise be discarded, and it is used to create a 'Pay-as-you-can' lunch each Thursday 10:30-2:00pm. Alongside Fair Trade Tea and Coffee, Southland's Methodist will also…
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Seek Summer School Week 1
Painting the city, drawing on history Taking our inspiration from the historic walled city of York, we will begin the week drawing on location. From this gathered material, students will develop their work through pastel and paint, exploring colour and compositional possibilities within the studio. Students will learn to build up an image through layers of washes and glazes to achieve depth to the picture’s surface. The culmination to the week will be in producing a resolved final painting that…
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Seek Art Summer School – Week 2
On The Waterfront The bridges over the River Ouse in York give us the subject matter for this inspirational week. Initially working on location, you will have the opportunity to collect the valuable visual information from the changing nature of water and its reflective qualities, to the immovable bridge structures that span it and link the city together. The subsequent three days of studio-based work will give you the opportunity to develop these initial studies through a variety of drawing…
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The rich diversity of nature will be our focus for this week of drawing and painting. Rowntree Park off Bishopthorpe Road will give us our location to study nature from the traditional order of a Victorian park. In contrast, we will capture its seemingly chaotic abundance, giving order through exploring the fundamentals of composition, colour balance, linear and tonal structure and rhythm. We will use a variety of media including pencil, pastel, oil and acrylic paint to explore the diversity…
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