What’s worldwide AND out-of-this-world?!?

If you guessed Cre8’s The Most Realistic Alien drawing workshop, you guessed right!

First in Europe, then Australia, now in South America, our Realistic Aliens continue to enjoy their worldwide tour of planet Earth. Just yesterday, Cre8 team member, Sofia Cabo, Cre8 friend and volunteer, Sergio Andres Castro, and photographer Gustavo Osorio visited a lively group of kids in Bogota, Colombia, at the Fundacion Coprogreso—a child-care center just north of the city in the beautiful foothills of the Andes Mountains.

It was a rainy day, but it didn’t matter…it was time to draw! The workshop began with what we like to call “ping pong”: our collaborative drawing exercise that allows the kids to work with partners to draw single works of art (“ping pong paintings”, as we like to call them). Afterwards, we worked as a group to transform specific drawings into entirely new works of art by adding only a few new lines and shapes. This exercise revealed to the kids that although one person may see something a certain way, another person might see it quite differently. Each perspective is unique and infinitely valuable.

Then came the aliens! With their creative juices flowing, the kids pushed the limits of their imaginations, grabbed their pencils and paper, and drew the most realistic aliens they could. All sorts of new aliens soon touched down. The boys gravitated towards delightfully scary-monster-type aliens (including fire swords and lightning bolts), while the girls stuck to sweeter looking aliens with many eyes and long, beautiful eyelashes. These aliens were unlike any we have seen before, and each was VERY realistic (well, realistic somewhere in the universe at least).

The day ended with drinks, cake, and a whole lot of jumping around. We attributed the energy surge to the power and wonder of collaborative art. But it could have been the sugar. Either way, we had a blast in Bogota!

If you would like to bring Cre8’s The Most Realistic Alien drawing workshop to your local community, contact us by clicking that little green “Contact” thing on the left of your screen. Let’s create!