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Days Bay Play is an extension of Days Bay Playcentre that offers creative play-based education opportunities to all families in Eastbourne. Days Bay Play has a class 'Bugs and Butterflies: The Art of Insects' for Term Two 2015. Take a look at the details below and enrol now to secure a place!

Thursday 19 June 2014

The Art of Faces for 7-12 year olds


About the Course: This will be a six week class focusing on portraiture, with a chance for children to explore different mediums and styles, learn some techniques and have a lot of fun sketching and painting. The children will learn some of the basics of how to draw faces and look at a few different art movements/artists including Rita Angus, Paul Klee, the Impressionists, and Picasso.  They will experiment with mixing colours, and use different mediums including pencil, pastel and paint.

Enrollment Information:
Artist: Meg Prebble (www.dorapapers.blogspot.co.nz)
When: Six Thursday afternoons from 3.30-5pm, starting Thursday 31st of July
Where: Days Bay Playcentre
Cost: $75 per child, $140 for two siblings.
To Book: Email: daysbayplay@gmail.com





Looking ahead to Term 4: The Art of Mythical Creatures
Meg Prebble will be running another six week class based around mythical creatures -  a theme many young (and not so young) people delight in! This course aims to introduce a variety of mediums, including mixed media collage, pressed flowers in art, sketching and painting. You children will produce a variety of pictures, some bookmarks and cards all based on their version of mythical creatures. Expect dragons, fairies, gryphons and more.  Please email any expressions of interest in this course to daysbayplay@gmail.com and we will keep you posted of further details.