Category: Children’s art

Childrens Hubble Drawings

St Peters National School Hubble drawings
Children’s Hubble Drawings
Sketches by Students of St Peters National School Walkinstown Dublin
Photo by Bernard Kelleghan • Details by Deirdre Kelleghan

Gallery of the Individual Drawings

The 20th Anniversary of the launch of The Hubble Space Telescope was celebrated in St Peters National School Walkinstown Dublin 12 on April 23rd. ESA sent me an enormous print of the Carina nebula, the celebration image for public outreach. A drawing workshop to inspire and educate was the way to go. That morning the boys of 5th class at St Peters listened very carefully to my simple explanation of this visually powerful image. The boys used soft pastels on black paper and lovely blending and feathering drawing methods to capture the swirling clouds of gas and dust 7,500 light years from this planet. Great energy and use of color produced some beautiful drawings, it was a very special event. One child said ‘Its amazing to draw this huge thing on my small page’

Deirdre

So Father, So Daughters

Luna - Moon
Sketch by Luna De Wit

Nine - Sun
Sketch by Nine De Wit

Inspired by the hobby of their father, Nine (4) and Luna (7) made two astrosketches. The youngest took the artistic freedom to unite the Sun with the nightsky. It doesn’t surprise me that the oldest put the Moon on her drawing, after all she was named after this celestical object. Hope you like it!

Clear skies
Jef De Wit

Object name: (night)sky
Location: Hove, Belgium
Date: somewhere in 2009
Medium: color markers on white paper and cardboard, color stickers

The Lara Star Systems

The Lara Star Systems

The beautiful visions of star systems dancing in Lara Mayhew’s art, number 1
Sketch by Lara Mayhew, Details by Peter Mayhew

It being the festive season I thought I would post some fun art work by my daughter, Lara (aged 4). This was created in a device known as an “Art spinner” which spins a small card around very fast, and you drop poster-paint onto it with a dropper. It creates all sorts of nice astronomical effects. The challenge is trying to match the effects created with astronomical objects that you have yourself observed. I have my own ideas for each of these, but I’d be interested to see other peoples’ suggestions.

The Lara Star Systems

Lara’s star systems, number 2
Sketch by Lara Mayhew, details by Peter Mayhew

The Lara Star Systems

Peter Mayhew, York, UK

ALCON’s Deadly Moons

”Deadly Moons” at 2009 ALCON
Sketches by the children of New York, Video and Details by Deirdre Kelleghan

Over 30 children and 10 adults attended my Astronomy / Art workshop “Deadly Moons” at ALCON 2009.ALCON is The Astronomical Leagues annual convention.

Deadly Moons teaches a little bit about our moon , and the other exotic moons in our solar system. We learn about moon phases, busy moons , quite moons , Galilean moons, moon exploration and moon terminology . We have fun with moons and create our choices on black paper with soft pastels in vivid colors.

The workshop was organised by the Amateur Observers Society of New York at Hofstra University Long Island NY. Some children came from the Science Camp at the university and some came from Linda Prince’s Young Astronomers Group.

On September 18th 2009 the moons created by these New York children will be on display
at Birr Castle Science Center .

That evening up to 200 moons created by Irish , Russian , and American
children will join a top class display of astronomical sketching in the Exhibition Gallery at Birr Castle.

The children’s work will merge with sketches from Sir Patrick Moore CBE , and other amateur
celestial sketches from the USA, UK, Ireland, Belgium, Italy, Finland, Iran, and Australia .
Dr Carolina Odman International Program Manager for Universe Awareness for Young Children will
open the exhibition and give a talk about UNAWE’s work in the world.

Deirdre Kelleghan

International Year of Astronomy Mural

International Year of Astronomy Mural on U Tube and UNAWE

This mural kicked off on April 23rd and finished on Tuesday June 23rd.
I was invited to give a presentation to the children from 5th class,
followed up with some lunar and solar observing then an interview.

Sarah – Jayne Reid a friend and Arts Facilitator kindly got me involved
and it took off from there. Sarah – Jayne helped the children to express
their ideas on the wall. I did a presentation and some lunar and solar
observing with them.

Hopefully it speaks for itself
There is a short description on the U Tube site

Full version on here vimeo.com/5319106
the full version has an interview with Sarah – Jayne Reid at the end.

—
Deirdre Kelleghan

Outreach Coordinator IFAS
http://www.irishastronomy.org/
http://www.deirdrekelleghan.com/

Deadly Moons

Deadly Moon 1

Deadly Moon 2

Deadly Moon 3

Three of the many “Deadly Moons”
Sketches by Irish childern, text by Deirdre Kelleghan

imageshttp://picasaweb.google.com/skysketcher/DeadlyMoonsInLibraries#

Here is a link showing a fraction of the moon drawings produced by Irish Children who took part in my Deadly Moons Art / astronomy drawing progam. When I show children the moon in my telescope they often say ” That’s Deadly ” meaning ” That’s cool” or That’s awesome, so when I wrote the program the title wrote itself almost.

The aim of the progam is to inform young children about the many wondeful moons in our solar system including our own facinatng moon. The chidren who produced the works were aged between six and twelve.

In most cases black paper and soft pastels were used. Some groups used crayons or felt pen on white paper. The majority of children were unaware that there are other moons besides our own. The majority of children did not know that there are robots in space.

All of the children enjoyed the program,the use of pastels and the total visual eperience. Every child learned something about moons and all had lots of fun using their imagination and creativity.

Deadly Moons is now available as a download from UNAWE ie Universe Awarness for Young Children. UNAWE is a cornerstone project for International Year of Astronomy 2009

Deirdre Kelleghan
President
Irish Astronomical Society 1937 – 2007
Public Relations Officer IFAS
Oscail do Shuile D’iontas na Cruinne
Open Your Eyes to the Wonder of the Universe

Star Child

Nebula

Nebula
Watercolor by Ashley, age 10 and Details by Deirdre Kelleghan

This beautiful watercolor painting of a nebula has won a prize in the ESO’s Catch a Star 2008. The artist, a young lady, is a pupil in Saint Andrews Junior College in Blackrock, Co Dublin Ireland.
I was delighted with every Irish entry this year,each child will get a certificate of merit.
I am particularly proud of Ashley’s work. Well done Ashley !!!!!

Saint Andrews is a school member of the Irish Astronomical Society

Deirdre

Deirdre Kelleghan
President
Irish Astronomical Society 1937 – 2007
Public Relations Officer IFAS
http://www.deirdrekelleghan.com/
Oscail do Shuile D’iontas na Cruinne
Open Your Eyes to the Wonder of the Universe
http://homepage.eircom.net/~irishas/index.htm
http://www.irishastronomy.org/

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50 Years of Space Exploration in Art

Space in Art 

This image shows just a fraction of the art I received for my Space in
Art Celebration. Young Irish school children celebrated 50 years of space
exploration through art.

Space in Art, an exhibition of the work of over 150 children took
place in Gonzaga College Dublin on October 4th.
This was a combined effort from St Andrews NS Blackrock, St Peters NS
Walkinstown, Griffith Barracks NS Dublin with summer project work from
Donore Avenue and Bridgefoot Street children, Dublin city centre.
Wonderful expressive celebratory art in paint, pencil,
glitter,collage,3D, oatmeal, you name it, it was there in truck
loads.Moons (even Iapetus), Planets, Stars,Shuttles, Rockets,and of
course Aliens all in abundance, all bursting with colour and energy.
This exhibition will travel to Birr to take part in the 2007 Whirlpool
Star Party which is a convergence of all things astronomical in
Ireland and abroad. Space in Art was a symbiotic explosion of children’s
work along with a talk on the future of space exploration by Dr John Mason.
Many thanks to all the teachers, pupils, and other individuals who took part.
This event came from a  partnership between The Irish Astronomical
Society and South Dublin Astronomical Society.
Deirdre Kelleghan

Deirdre Kelleghan
President
Irish Astronomical Society 1937 – 2007
http://www.deirdrekelleghan.com/