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By Olga Gerke
Art gym - the same way you workout every day you have to retrain your eye and brain to unleash creativity and escape dopamine fuelled feedback loop
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Pop up art gym - after work/lunchtime, with perspective to becoming regular feature and rent a room for regular workshops. Up to ten easels with paints, brushes and lots of things to draw/paint. you work out every day, but what about your eye? everybody can click on FB, how about creating unique experience, developing your eye and brain with help of Betty Edwards technique, creating a sketch in your lunchtime or after work?... How long does it take? from 10 minutes to an hour. What level you should have in drawing? Any level, if you can write you can draw. You have to just to have courage to try something new. If you based in city centre, if you work in Spinningfields or Deansgate area - try it today!
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Why it's a great idea:
Lots of people are trapped in "dopamine fuelled feedback loop", we receive 90 % of information through eyes, but we neglect our eye's "fitness" and instead of beauty of 3d natural objects we see... well, how many times you liked today babies photos, cute kittens pics or tantalising pics of ocean? yep, 1000 times - instead of seeing - and expressing what you see - real beauty of this world. To reverse the process you have to take control of what you see, and drawing/painting is an old and trusted method for it, you dont need special abilities, if you have eyes and can write - with Betty Edwards' and other techniques its proven that you can paint. Join us and start WORKOUT FOR YOUR EYE AND BRAIN. Un-glue your eyes from the screen, see instead - faces, landscapes, sky and flowers. ( workshops are short and aim at busy people at lunch breaks and after work)
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How will the money be spent?Total £2,877
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Total £2,877
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VolunteerThe project would involve children of all ages and families celebrating nature in one of Manchester green places,. Imagine artistic picnic under the trees where you can be creative, get in touch with nature and show your artistic skills or try new things, we will provide entertainment and enrichment for your children of all ages . Art supplies will be provided or you can bring your own.
We came long way since may when we had our first promotional meeting in Proper Tea near Manchester cathedral. dressed up as Edwardian tea party we painted indoors and outdoors and it was an amasing meeting of likeminded creative people. Since then we had up to ten workshops where i and my group of friends provided kids and adults with basic art instructions and encouragement, we painted and sketched indoors and outdoors, to go and paint nature and human figure in nature surroundings. We aim to have our plein air art school launched in September and have workshops/lessons every week, with core group and drop in options
Project Owner: Olga Gerke The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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