Izzy, 9 and Hattie 6 drew their house as a surprise for Mummy. I fetched the girls from school and I set them up with a little bench each to rest the board on, and a cushion to sit on. They were excited about going to their own house secretly instead of coming home with me. Session1: Advance planning (5 minutes for them, longer for me)After planning the project together and talking about the secret gift for Mummy and Daddy, I stretched a piece of paper for each of them and we … [Read more...]
Church Paintings on Exhibition
Everyone finished their church artworks in time for these to go on display in the church during the village fair. There wasn't a lot more to do since the drawing, but the collaged patterns gave the work a good "finish" which is more obvious in real life than in the photos. The last stage was to collage the tissue the girls printed. Originally the idea was to collage the church in the rubbed textures and the grass in the monoprinted textures, but this was going to be too 'busy'; so we kept … [Read more...]
Portrait of the Village Church
My granddaughters, 8 and 6 have now completed 3 "portraits" of houses, and I thought it would be lovely to do the village church. I invited three other little girls from our village who are 8, 7, and 6. Today it's half-term and there was a brilliant blue sky despite it being only 10 degrees, so we started 'thinking and looking'. We wanted to get "a feel" for the subject so we walked up with viewfinders, and they each took a photo on my i-pad. We won't look at the photos again until the very … [Read more...]
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