Hello KCAT artist! We miss you, but we can still do artwork while we are away from each other and we will be in contact with you as much as possible.
Sketch Club
Follow these steps below to join the KCAT sketch club
ONLY IF YOU WANT TO
Step One
Get your art stuff together
You will need –
- a sketchbook
- drawing pencils
- paint
- brushes
Step Two
Join your WhatsApp group
You may need help with this step,
Contact Alice in KCAT alice@kcat.ie
Give permission to Alice to add your mobile phone number to your group
Download the WhatsApp App on your smart phone.
Step Three
Start
Your KCAT facilitator will send you a message on WhatsApp to join the club
Draw or paint a page in your sketchbook.
Take twenty minutes to do it. Put a timer on.
Step Four
Share
When you have done your page, take a photograph of it.
Share the photo to your WhatsApp group.
We hope you can join the club, be safe and stay well and don’t stop making your art!
ZOOM Links
You will need to download the zoom app first here if you don’t already have it:
Now just click on the link – it will ask if you want to open zoom.us
Click ok and you should be in the zoom automatically.
Equinox
Wednesday Morning Open Movement Session with Cindy
Roots 2D
Ceramics
Friday Open Studio
Thursday Open Studio
Wednesday Open Studio
Thursday Acting Course
A bit of inspiration
Need some positivity this January? Lift your spirits with Little Cog’s heartwarming short film Funny Peculiar (★★★★ The Stage), which follows 4 disabled women in quarantine who refuse to be defeated by lockdown gloom.
And now a selection of videos and links to artists discussing how they depict the places of interest to them
TAL R
Danish artist Tal R discusses a body of work he made about Copenhagen
More info of Tal R’s work here
George Shaw
Here English artist George Shaw talks about the paintings he makes of his home town Coventry
More info on George Shaw’s work here
Sol Calero
In this video Venezuelan artist Sol Calero talks about depicting the space between our expectations and experience of places we visit.
More info on Sol Calero here
Josephine Halvorson
American artist Josephine Halvorson paints the small details of her world that commonly go unnoticed
more info on Josephine Halvorson here
Julie Merutu
Ethiopian / American artist Julie Merutu talks about the effect political history has on how we view landscapes in this video.
more info on Julie Merutu here
Cui Jie
Cui Jie’s paintings are based on the architectural landscapes of the 3 major Chinese cities she has lived in, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Beijing.
Images and info on her work here