Art Smart Balham

Art Smart Balham Art, textiles and crafting for kids to develop creativity, confidence and conflictive ability.

🌸 Art & Design Club Creations 🌸We had a lovely time in Art & Design Club this week creating beautiful flower gardens fro...
15/03/2026

🌸 Art & Design Club Creations 🌸

We had a lovely time in Art & Design Club this week creating beautiful flower gardens from clay, all inspired by and linked to our Natural Forms project this term. 🌼

The children have been learning the fundamentals of slab rolling, cross-hatching, and how to use slurry to securely join clay pieces together. It’s been wonderful to see their creativity flourish while developing new clay-building skills.

Such imaginative and thoughtful work from everyone – well done! 🎨👏

Hands in motion, ideas taking shape! ✨Children make colorful faces from pipe cleaners, building dexterity, patience, and...
08/03/2026

Hands in motion, ideas taking shape! ✨
Children make colorful faces from pipe cleaners, building dexterity, patience, and playful problem-solving along the way.

20/02/2026

📸✂️ KS2 Photography Club – Cut, Create, Transform! ✂️📸

Our young photographers explored collage techniques inspired by artists like David Hockney — transforming a single photograph by cutting it up and rearranging it in their own unique way.

There was no right or wrong way, just creativity and experimentation.

👀 Look closely
✂️ Cut boldly (big, small, careful or rough!)
🔄 Rearrange — flip it, overlap it, change the focus
🖇️ Stick when composition looks great

The results are imaginative, thoughtful and completely individual. I love how each child reimagined their image!

20/02/2026

Over the past 4 weeks in our Natural Forms project, we’ve been building observational drawing skills through flowers 🌸

We started by making our own viewfinders to zoom in on tiny sections — really training our eyes to see shape and detail. Next, we used light boxes to accurately record outlines and understand proportion.

Our final challenge? Drawing from direct observation 🌿 Translating a 3D flower into a 2D image and capturing shadow and tone.

The progress has been incredible. From grid studies to final pieces in pencil, oil pastel, fine liner and watercolour, the children have shown such confidence and creativity ✨

Creating a World Book Day mermaid costume with my student was such a rewarding experience! 🧜‍♀️✨We explored working with...
20/02/2026

Creating a World Book Day mermaid costume with my student was such a rewarding experience! 🧜‍♀️✨

We explored working with multiple layers of tulle and net fabric to build a beautifully full skirt, practised gathering techniques for a decorative finish, and also carefully sewing stretch fabrics on the sewing machine. So proud of the focus, patience and creativity shown throughout — amazing progress! 🧵



03/02/2026

🎨✨ Loads more fun at Art Textiles Club! The children have been hard at work bringing their ideas to life, translating sketches from paper onto fabric. 🪡🐦 Their appliqué bird designs are already looking amazing, and the embroidery embellishments are adding such a fantastic, personal touch!

27/01/2026

The natural forms project is well underway, as pupils learn to use light boxes effectively to support pencil tonal studies and expressive oil pastel work.🌿

13/01/2026

From thread to creation! Fun sewing classes for kids! 🌟

I’ve been a bit quiet on here for a while, but I’m hoping to be more consistent with posting this year – a small New Yea...
13/01/2026

I’ve been a bit quiet on here for a while, but I’m hoping to be more consistent with posting this year – a small New Year’s resolution of mine.

This photo captures the children at Thomas’s diving into the design process for their embroidery hoop wall hangings, inspired by Clare Youngs. Such a lovely start from everyone.

Fun with our new LED pads, hoping for a few likes as the girls are hoping to be competition winners! 😊 +kidsdrawing
07/08/2024

Fun with our new LED pads, hoping for a few likes as the girls are hoping to be competition winners! 😊 +kidsdrawing

Looking forward to seeing these beauties on display in the coming weeks, they will form part of a community textile art...
22/06/2024

Looking forward to seeing these beauties on display in the coming weeks, they will form part of a community textile art installation.

Made with lots of love, care and patience by my girls . 🥰

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