book proposal

Have put a drawing book proposal into the ether - well, e-mailed it to a few agents anyway. I've developed a unique and very simple method for creating easily recognisable pictures and have got to the point where I am tentatively pushing it out there. Probably way above my humble station but you never know.

back from hols

All good things must come to an end - back to school tomorrow!

Whilst on holiday in deepest, darkest France we found these tiny (less than 1cm diam.), vintage mother of pearl buttons at a local brocante. They are supposed to go into my daughter's stash of goodies for her to use in her upcoming fashion & textile studies - but she says I can have some! I'm thinking baubles on hand-stitched Christmas cards - is it too soon to begin producing these and listing them on etsy?

(Wow! - now over 1000 visits - I should go away more often!)

exhibition

Today we had a temporary, informal gallery of work that was produced throughout the school during last weeks Art Week. Different year groups looked at Mexico, Ancient Egypt, Australia, Africa, India - we could only cover things superficially but hopefully some children went away inspired - we shall certainly be going over things in more depth next school year.

School hols are almost upon us, so there will probably be no more posts until the beginning of september as I'll be down in deepest, darkest France with no internet connection.

Have a great Summer!

drummers

More African art - simple printed figures representing Masai Warriors.

We were also visited today by the Kuzari Drummers - Sam & Zozo - a pair of very talented guys who managed to get the whole school involved in some drumming. They finished off our arts week nicely with a rousing assembly and had children, staff and parents all up on their feet.

A is for African animals

Using the 'A is for Art' concept I 'invented' (?) - we drew African animals in our sketchbooks today. All pics started out as letter 'A's - we just detailed them as appropriate to represent each animal. The children were amazed to find that they could easily and quickly draw something that looked reasonably like what it was supposed to.

indian elephant

India today - and elephants (made from the template I concocted a few days ago).

Looks like he's wearing specs!

The howdah is a simple origami box that we learnt how to make ages ago.

aboriginal artwork

Australia today - with a specific look at Aboriginal art. We then attempted to paint our own pics using cotton buds (less messy than fingers!) to apply the paint onto coloured sugar paper.

Our art club sculpture is finally nearing completion.