SOUTHSIDE WORKSHOP,  SATURDAY 25TH JUNE

Thanks to all the brilliant Southside shoppers who came to join us at the #wispwarriors 'art shop' on Saturday 25th June!  Zaid, Ricky-Lee, Zeba and temporary WISP warrior (Zeba's cousin) Faiz, all did a fantastic job drawing people into the workshop and helping to create some great collages,  working alongside the most wonderful Wandsworth public! Can't wait to see the giant print that is going to appear very soon above Boots and Argos, featuring the WISP students artwork alongside some of the collages created at Southside. 

'It was an amazing experience. I loved it!' Zaid

'This is a fantastic place to be with children.  Wonderful people. Lots of fun!!! Love it. It's great. Good interaction.' Southside 'shopper'

'It was enjoyable and I think we should do more events like this!!! 

Your favourite student, Ricky-Lee'

'I know this project will be a success. I look forward to seeing the result.  Thank you for the amazing time that reminded me to believe in myself!' Southside 'shopper'

GREEN SCREENING AND STOP MOTION CONTINUED ...

'Today we learnt about how to do time-lapse and green screen and have fun.' Zeba

'The best part of the workshop was the green screen.  I hope we can do it again!'  Daniya

'I enjoyed working with my friends.' Rahman

'I enjoyed 'Stop Motion' the most because I've never done it before and it's really cool.'  Ashanti

Not long to go before the launch event at Wandsworth Town library on 17th May! Watch out for some of the students wonderful green screen artwork on the first floor in the teenage area, 17th - 21st May!

ANIMATING PORTRAITS CONTINUED ... 

‘Today we finished off our interesting animations.  It was a really fun experience and fascinating to finally learn how to make animation. We used the app called AC (Animation Creator) to draw our animations.’ Tamkien and Anna

‘I’m proud of my background pattern.’  Chloe

'Today I enjoyed a lot because we were doing art and I love art.' Iqra

'Next term I would like to work in groups. It’s better if you have different 

opinions so that you can develop your ideas’.  Sakina

‘I am very excited about the festival.’ Zebe

ANIMATING PORTRAITS CONTINUED ... 

New students Lucas, Julia and Chloe join WISP Warriors 

and begin to make portraits of their own.

          

Zeba creates a wonderful animation using a 

variety of materials to say what she wants.

Fawwaz moves the sand to create a great animation effect.

CREATING PORTRAITS TO ANIMATE ...

We first planned everything in our sketch books and improved our plan as we went through. Our sketch books were used as a record of our ideas.

Some of us used photocopies of patterns 

from books to create the background.

We looked at our portraits and talked about what we liked.

'I enjoyed it ... I felt like an artist!!"  Zeba

'I liked the patterns that we copied out.'  Ana

'I make a portrait and I untidy my shirt.'  Abdullah

'It was calm!'  Fawwaz

'I enjoy it and I like it, very beautiful.  I am Tayyaba.'

PHOTO PORTRAITS

We looked at some artist's portraits in the library to get ideas.

We discussed how the background of a portrait told us more about the person.

We liked the portraits by Yayoi Kusama and Yinka Shonibare.

We took photos of ourselves that we thought would portray our characters.

WANDSWORTH ARTS FRINGE PUBLICITY

Local artist Sam Haynes has been working with students from WISP since February, creating a series of short animations focusing on the theme of identity and change in relation to place.

Hamit taking a green screen photo of Tamkien and Tayyaba 

for the Wandsworth Arts Fringe Festival publicity

Vera and Andrew having fun creating portraits  

We wrote things about ourselves to come up with ideas for the publicity.

'WISP Warriors' is an international video installation introducing the young students from Wandsworth Interim Schools Project. New to the borough, they have something to say, 'Hello! Jebaleko! Cei me jaei! Hallo! Hola! Bonjour! Ba woni!'



Today was....

'SUPER, FUN , AWESOME, INTERESTING!'