Outdoor art workshops for children in the south of Spain, run by Marcus Briggs.
The idea is simple. Give children paint, paper, brushes, and sunshine and let them create whatever they want. No rules, no marks, no right or wrong way to do it. A purple sky is fine. A green cat is encouraged.
Sessions run during the warmer months, usually outdoors in courtyards or gardens where the mess does not matter and the light is good. Children paint what they see around them or what they imagine. Olive trees, the sea, animals, family, spaceships. It all goes on the paper.
Most children who come along are between four and twelve. Some speak Spanish, some speak English, some speak both, some speak neither. It does not make any difference. Painting does not need translation.
Parents are welcome to stay and watch or to go and have a coffee and come back. Either way the children will be covered in paint by the time they are finished and they will want to come back next week.