Our First Workshop
St. Elvan's Art and Photography Workshop
After the crazy year that was 2021, Cynon Artsy Lens & Nature Unleashed are proud to say that we have completed our first workshop.
With lockdowns and restrictions changing every week we have tried our hardest to organise workshops last year, but we can confidently say that we are now currently on track to start a very productive 2022.
With that kind help of St. Elvan's Church we were able to put together a 1 hour workshop on Saturday 22nd January.
Our theme for this workshop was "Light". Linda, Carol, Kevin and Alyison showed the children around the magnificent stained glass windows of the church.
Alyison showed the children how they could use different shapes to create their own stained glass window effect. Linda brought crepe paper and laminate to allow light to shine through some of their drawings.
Kevin and Carol helped the children decide how they wanted to arrange their shapes and cut them out ready to be laminated.
While some of the group coloured in their stained glass windows, Wendy took the other group up into the mezzanine for a demonstration on how light works with a camera.
She showed them some of the early cameras that were made and how light can pass through different glass to make cool effects in a picture.
She showed them how light is split into different colours like the rainbow, with red being at one end of the spectrum and violet at the other.
She showed them warm and cool tones and how they affect the final image.
Wendy then took her group downstairs to guide them through close up photography, colour and shapes. Giving them plenty of inspiration to snap their own photos.
