Information about Digital Scrapbook Drawing Project

Please Read Our Consent and Safety Information

Take A Part Carlow adheres to Carlow County Councils Safeguarding policy and they are committee to ensuring the safety of children participating in our online projects and activities.   Artwork supplied by those 16 years and under require consent from a parent or guardian to publish the material.  Artwork supplied by those 17 years or over requires the consent from the young person.  Please note that you may withdraw consent at any stage in such situations the artwork will be taken down from the project site. 

Take A Part Carlow is committed to facilitating a positive and empowering social space for our participants to create art.  In accessing creative opportunities for our members Take A Part invites you to join Eilish Langton, a socially engaged artist from Carlow, to draw together, via and through internet conference settings such as Zoom or other social media.  In providing these opportunities, we commit to adhering to the following best practices in the interest of safeguarding both participants and artists.  The artist is invited into the participants home and vice versa.  This involves a person who is unknown to other members of the household.  Both participants, parents and guardians of children and the artist should make it known that there is someone virtually present in their home so that everyone’s actions and behaviour reflect this awareness. 

Child Protection Concerns Related to Internet Teaching

Learning to draw over the internet is not the usual way Take A Part creative projects happen.  This method means communicating with an adult outside of the family over the internet.  This is not a practice that should be seen or understood as normal and requires permission and supervision.  

Take A Part Carlow is committed to ensuring that any information gathered in relation to this project meets specific responsibilities as set out in the Data Protection Act 1998.  Under GDBR I understand that this information including works of art produced in relation to this project will only be used for the sole purposes of the Take A Part Carlow project.

I fully understand that by taking part in this online project I give and/or give parental consent Take A Part Carlow the right to display my / or my guardians work and image on their website and for other media purposes related to Take A Part Carlow.

I confirm that all details are correct to the best of my knowledge and I am able to give my parental consent for my child to participate in all activities.  By participating in this online project, I agree to adhere to the Parental Expectations as set out by Take A Part Carlow. 

Types of Art Materials You Can Use

x1 Kohl Watercolor Pencil pk 12 -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd1W_pp9Nzo

These are water soluble pencils.  The core in its dry format is incredibly soft, along the way, depending on pressure you use, you will get a little bit of crumbling, however this is not a problem as those deposits of pigment will dissolve as soon as they are activated with water. Draw or colour with them and use a moist paintbrush to activate the area you want to colour/ shade.

x1 A4 Hardback Sketchbook, 135g, 40 Sheets

Use your sketchbook as a playground, a place to mess around and have fun. Draw in it, scribble in it, make lists in it, Basically use it as a practice ground with no expectations. Experiment with the pencils, watercolour pencils and oil pastels see tutorials at www.takeapartcarlow.com on the Digital Scrapbook Project page. Use your sketchbook as a journal, writing down things that come into your head, what you like and what you don’t like. Add your sketches/picture/torn images from a magazine and soon you will have a vast array of images you may use for further art work.  Be sure to add a brief description and date it.

x1 Kohl Graphite Pencil 2B - x1 Kohl Graphite Pencil 4B

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x1 Staedtler Oil Pastels pk12           

Oil pastels are particularly versatile and possess great expressive power. They contain oil and wax as binding agents. As a result, they do not cause dust and they adhere very well even to smooth paper. Their vibrant colours are similar to oil paints and a great way of starting out in oil mediums. They have superb coverage characteristics and best effects are achieved when the colours are applied thickly. Oil pastels are a versatile medium which stick to a whole variety of surfaces such as paper, cardboard, canvas, wood, stone and even smooth surfaces like glass and plastic.

Any surplus colour should be removed every now and again with a cotton cloth or piece of kitchen towel. In addition to this, attractive, smooth transitions of colour can be created by smudging. Oil pastels are not really suitable for detailed work. However, the crayons can be sharpened a little (it is recommended to place them in the fridge for a while beforehand). Another alternative is to take the desired colour and apply it to a piece of e.g. card, partially dissolve it using a brush dipped in solvent and then paint any details on using the brush. Highlights and shadows are emphasised as a last step using black and white crayons.

Albino Brush # 4 & Albino Brush # 8

Ideal for using with watercolour pencils and other paint mediums.

x1 A4 Plastic Carry File with Handle

Ideal to store all your work for safe protection x1 12” Ruler

x1 Sharpie Marker (fine point)

The Sharpie Permanent Markers are ideal for this project and can even mark on most hard-to-mark surfaces. Suggested use on plastic, metal, cardboard, vinyl, and leather and glass surfaces. These permanent markers have an alcohol based ink that is water and fade resistant. Sharpie Fine Point Markers are the safest pens to use.

x1 Nature Study copy

We have included the nature study copy as another tool to help you really see more things to inspire you. Spending time in natural environments can benefit health and well-being according to many experts. The amount of greenspace in one’s neighbourhood to nature exposure can reveal some interesting discoveries and they can be recorded in the copy by writing about them or sticking leaves into it.

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More about the project

#LOVETODRAW Ireland Ireland is a project developed by Voluntary Arts Ireland in partnership with Take A Part Carlow, Glucksman Gallery Cork and Artlink Donegal. It is an online drawing programme and will involve artist-led drawing workshops with a range of community groups and an exhibition showcasing the visual results at an exhibition in the Glucksman Gallery during November 2020. Led by artist Eilish Langton and the objective is to create art that represents the community that will live on beyond the art project. Selected Participants will receive a “Take A Part Carlow Art Pack”. The art pack will enable participants to engage and collaborate more easily. When participants receive the pack, they begin to access a series of online workshops, designed and lead by Eilish.

These final works may go on exhibit in public and form part of a future project with Voluntary Arts Ireland, #LOVETODRAW IRELAND.

For more details please see www.takeapartcarlow.com

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Acknowledgements

Page 155 from Carlow Folk Tales permission kindly granted by writer Aideen McBride.

This Is Poetry, HL, Brian Forristal & Billy Ramsell:  p270 2018: Forum Publications LTD, Little Island, cork

Carlow Folk Tales by Aideen McBride & Jack Sheehan; p155, 2014, History Press, Dublin  aideenmcbride@gmail.com

Ginnie by Ted Greenwood: p52, 1979, Chaucer Press, Suffolk, UK