Night Skies, Stars and Christmas Robins. Week 3: Continuing with the theme of night skies, we revisited the collaborative piece made during week 1. The painted collage background which we covered in beautiful marks creating textures and patterns by applying paint in different ways was used as the backdrop for our nighttime scene. We spent …
Night Skies, Stars and Christmas Robins. Week 2: Continuing with the theme of night skies, we turned our attention to the beautiful sunsets (and sun rises) that we are blessed with around Angus and Tayside. Often my Facebook feed is filled with amazing photos of fiery skies and I wanted to take advantage of the …
Night Skies, Stars and Christmas Robins. Week 1: What better way to mark ‘clocks go back’ weekend and saying goodbye to British Summer time, than celebrating the beauty of the night sky?! We spent a while looking at photographs taken with a long exposure, which showed off the amazingness of our galaxy in all its …
Modelling: Modroc, wire and papier mâché Day 1: Lots of ooey-gooey fun this holiday block trying out different kinds of modelling. First off mod-roc and forming simple shapes around bowls. Lots of concentrating, trying to get on smooth surfaces and shaped edges. We also started forming the basic shapes for the toadstools, starting off with …
Exploring Patterns Week 3: The final week saw us use the large collaborative painting to make patterns based on mosaic and patch work patterns. The children were encouraged to think about colours again – hot and cold colours, contrasting and complimentary colours. I had spent some time before the workshop cutting the drawing up into …
Exploring Colour Week 2: We spent this workshop exploring colour – hot and cold colours and looking at how different colours contrast with one another. We used the patterns, shapes and marks made during week 1 and used watercolour paint to ‘colour-in’, using cold colours for the objects and foreground and warm colours as the …