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What craft do you work with?
illustration and mosaic with a specialist emphasis on working with schools and youth groups.
What is your background?
Katie has many years’ experience of working with children and vulnerable young people who through the gift of art are able to communicate, be heard and creative a positive lasting legacy.
Tell us about the creative workshops you run
I work in collaboration and cooperation with the children from schools and youth groups and help them to create artwork for indoor and outdoor murals.
What are the creative processes you like to incorporate into your workshops?
Group sessions are conducted with the children to discuss the project brief and to capture their thoughts and ideas. This Collaboration and brain storming session helps to engage the children, draw on their own experiences and imagination as inspiration.
Once the ideas are collated, a portfolio of images is developed which aids the children in drawing their own single illustrations. These hand drawn single illustrations are created with a number of mixed media art materials such as watercolour, chalk, pastels, pen, ink, pencils and acrylic paint and then scanned in preparation for digital composition.
The individual scanned pieces of artwork are then imported into a multi-layered Photoshop document and composed into the final mural closely supervised by myself. The completed mural can be printed onto any surface (maximum 8ft x 4ft) e.g. aluminium board for outdoor display or Foamex / fabric for indoor display. The image can also be printed onto a range of merchandise such as cards, mugs, tea towels etc which may help to raise future funds for further projects as appropriate.
You can see our work and book workshops here: