We all have a hero in us

Past event

From 11.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.

Today we live in a world where both knowledge and many forms of entertainment are visually constructed (visual culture). What we see is as important as what we hear or read. Seeing is a way of thinking.
The starting point, the trigger for this workshop is precisely what we saw and what marked us as children. We all have a special character or characters, a cartoon series, or a film that marked us in our childhood and that perhaps contributed more than we think to our way of contemplating/interpreting the world. We are not talking about a trivial issue, the TV/images we watch during our childhood will be one of the most solid memories in the future. Cartoons are indebted to their time, which means that the creators imprint on them the pros and cons of the historical moment in which they lived. Their characters and personalities are solid and well-defined, representing basic emotions: sadness, joy, anger... And a scale of solid values such as generosity, responsibility or solidarity... All of this awakens the viewer's empathy.

The workshop will deal with the idea of working with the vast array of characters that make up the children's imagination and that today reach them through the diversity of audiovisual platforms available to them, unlike the children of the “Mazinger era”.

The idea is to create a large collective mural-type work where all the characters chosen by their authors live together. We will work from drawing and painting, and in the process we will learn many other things such as the secret behind the colours or composition. We will learn some very cool artistic techniques such as the stencil or stencilling, stamping, collage and we will also experiment with waste materials and found objects that we can use to create this great mural.

We will do all this as a team helping each other. If you want to spend a magical week just sign up for this workshop and your dreams will be queued up to be painted.

Taught by Alfredo Omaña

Visual artist and teacher specialising in Art Education for Children. He holds a PhD with a specialisation in painting from the University of Salamanca. He combines his artistic activity with the development/research of an independent project in the field of children's education-creativity known as “EL TALLER espacio de creación/espacio de educación” which develops its activity in the field of Art and emotional education. She directs and curates Children's Art exhibitions in collaboration with the Domus Artium contemporary art centre in Salamanca (DA2).