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Level Best Art Cafe in September IV

Level Best Art Cafe in September IV

 

 

 

 

23rd - 30th September 2020

 

 

 

 

 


 

Out reach in Castle Park with James Robinson

 

 

 

 

 

 

light pad tracing & colouring by Robert Green

 

 

 

 


 

lunch in zone 1 with Robert & Stephen

 

 

 


 

drawing & painting Darth Vader by Stephen Davoine

 


 

drawing Lord Of The Rings by Stephen Davoine

 

 

 



 

printing from tablet by Robert Green

 

 

 

light pad tracing Robert, Josh & Stephen

 

 

 

 

Josh Wilsher portfolio – “Gill Man vs Werewolf” poster
work in progress

 

 

 

 

 

 


Level Best weekly menu

Good Morning everyone!  Here is our Menu for the week of 28 September 2020.

  • MONDAY:         Pasta Bake, Fruit Crumble
  • TUESDAY:        Vegetarian Chilli, Lemon Meringue Pie
  • WEDNESDAY:  Tomato and Mozzarella Pizza, Orange Oat cookie
  • THURSDAY:     Thai Red Quorn Chicken Curry, Strawberry Cheesecake
  • FRIDAY:            Tuna Pasta Bake, Sticky Toffee Pudding

Cakes - £1.30 a slice,   Tea/Coffee 50p,    Squash 25p,    Hot Chocolate  85p,      Juice 50p.

The main course can be purchased separately at a cost of £4.00   

Desserts range from £1.00 to £1.50
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

allotment group pose with graffiti on the Wivenhoe trail
Simon, Connor, Daniel & Andrew

 

 

 

Horticulture walk in the woods & Wivenhoe trail walk

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A morning in the woods narrated by Daniel Lewis

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Level best Outreach session love our local walks! Wivenhoe trail is a favourite where shall we walk next?

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Artco outreach at Brightlingsea with Jane, William & Sam

 





 

 

See video of Jane, Sam & William here & here
 

 

 

 

 

 

RDB Reviews; An interview with Ryan Balkwill discussing;

Marvel's SpiderMan Season 2

 

 

 

 

 

chicken curry by Daniel Lewis

 

 

 

 

 

fish pie by Angus Wilkinson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Level Best Artco upcycled fabric with Felix Rogers

 

 

 

 

 

Artco studio serigraph prints

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

View from Rookery House

Site of the old Gellar's Butchers on St John's Street Colchester, the new location for The Level Best Art Cafe,

currently being renovated for our use some time in the future, the upstairs flat which we own is a space where out reach sessions can happen with a limited number of trainees and staff who do not require the kitchen or other facilities at Level Best Art Cafe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

homemade chicken and mushroom pasta bake by Daniel Lewis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

drawing the Infinity Gauntlet & an orange step by step
by Jamie Croft

We now have 2 pages on our website dedicated to drawing characters & things respectively step by step.

Jamie has learned to use these resources and can now draw with them self-directed.

Staff will draw the same subject along with him online.

 

You can visit these web pages with close to 80 step by step guides at these links.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

colouring Daffy Duck & Jerry by Christina Waldron

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

painting Lord Of The Rings by Stephen Davoine

 


 

painting Transformers scene with a Bumble Bee theme
by Ben Andrew

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

water colour painting by William Turnbull

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Artco studio light pad tracing by Christina Waldron

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Artco Level Best drawing compilation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

portrait painting by Sam Carter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RDB Reviews: an interview with Ryan Balkwill discussing;

Project Power           Showbiz Kids

The Punisher    Season 1      &      Season 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stuffed mushrooms by Dale Northcott

 

 

 

 

 

 


homemade stuffed mushrooms by Daniel Lewis

 

 

 

 

 

 

lemon meringue Pie by Rebecca Clinch

 

 

 

 

Darryl Brown chopping onions

 

 

 

 

Naomi Turpin grating cheese

 

 

 

 

vegetarian chilli by Subanki Sivarajah

 

 

 

 

drawing a movie poster “Gill Man vs Werewolf” by Josh Wilsher

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

drawing & colouring primary forms by Felix Rogers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

portraits by Sam Carter and others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

painting cows by John Mansell

 

 

 

 

 

 


painting Lord Of The Rings by Stephen Davoine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Green researching

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

homemade chicken casserole by Daniel Lewis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

carrot and kale sauté by Sarah & Jamie Croft

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

stuffed mushrooms by Angus Wilkinson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

veg stew and dumplings by Dean Smith

 

 

 

 

 

 

Level Best group skype chat
with Kyriaki, Angus, Darryl & William



 

 

 

 

Missed the beginning
of our report?

 

 

Check out what we did in week 1 here

 


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CONTACT
LEVEL BEST

Level Best Art Cafe,
D'arcy House, 3 Culver Street East
Colchester, Essex C01 1LD

01206 366 059
LEVELBEST@DACONTRUST.CO.UK

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