Bright Sparks

Bright sparks, creative hands, young minds. Working with three local artists - Colm Docherty, Sam Jones and Sandi Kiehlmann.....

...local kids explore their creativity - discovering textures, drawing and sketching built  and natural environment, using natural materials as artistic tools and resources and more....

These workshops were run as part of the beautiful and extraordinary Julie Brook exhibition at the Burgh Hall Dunoon - art inspiring art inspiring our bright sparks.

All images are ©Burgh Hall Dunoon and Powan Ltd - If you would like a print of any of these or other images on the blog or to find out more about my work, please contact me at www.therainboweffect.co.uk or powanmedia@gmail.com for details on sizes and prices, and please feel free to post a comment! Feedback is always gratefully received - thanks for reading!!

Embra

Cold, grey, dreich but beautiful - skylines and roofs making exquisite shapes in the glowering sky, astonishing architecture, pigeons with attitude and kids bouncing with vigour, vim and gallusness. This was half-term, that was Edinburgh.....

All images are ©JeanDonaldson/powanmedia - If you would like a print of any of these or other images on the blog or to find out more about my work, please contact me at www.therainboweffect.co.uk for details on sizes and prices, and please feel free to post a comment! Feedback is always gratefully received - thanks for reading!!

Lights, Camera....

...Action, during a fun filled, immensely creative two day Workshop for ARC (Arts and Recreation Club - wonderous Summer School for local kids at Glendaruel Village Hall!). Film and Photography Fun was the order of the day, second year for some of the bright young things, and they threw themselves into it with relish.

By the end of the second day the kids had developed, story-boarded, rehearsed, filmed and edited a thrilling, chilling Zombie Horror (Zombie Glen), whilst a Heist Movie is in the can but still getting it's final edits; there were also a multitude of fantastic and inspiring stills images. Can't wait for year three!

For further information on kid's Workshops please contact me at powanmedia@gmail.com and to find out more about my work please visit my website at www.therainboweffect.co.uk. 

Animating Teens

Dunoon - it's a hive of creativity, didn't you know? Recently, a group of talented teens got together at the fabulous Burgh Hall to create an original piece of animation for the forthcoming, inaugural Dunoon Film Festival. 

Working as a team, with some help from a few willing adults and expertly guided by experienced film maker Iñigo Garrido of OaksBark, the kids spent a productive day working through the creative processes that go into making a short piece of animation.

The finished piece will be screened during the festival, which runs from 14th to 16th June - having spent the day documenting the workshop and seeing the kid's enthusiasm and creativity, I can't wait to see the results!

For more information about the fantastic Dunoon Film Festival and it's adventurous and inspirational programme of films, events and iconic 'Stars in Scotland' exhibition, hop on over to dunoonfilmfestival.org

So.....how was it for you?

Christmas and Hogmanay done and gone, time to take stock of  2012 after a bit of breathing space/perspective. 

So, good? Bad? 

For me, a bit of a mix - lots of great photo-ing (events, commissions and a glorious wedding); a fantastic holiday with family and friends in deepest Suffolk, lots of cooking and baking, catching up with old friends and relatives from distant shores; plus, on the down side, a partial toe amputation-ouch! 

Anyway, here's a tiny selection of my favourite images from last year and roll on 2013 - Enjoy!