LRRH

Today in FS2, by pure chance(!), they were looking at Little Red Riding Hood!
We had a go at drawing reversible images - where Granny becomes the Big, Bad Wolf if you rotate her.
Nb. she has spots and bags under her eyes 'cos she's not well, even though she's putting a brave face on! 

bears cottage

In FS2 today we continued with our 'G & 3 bears' theme. Using simple origami we made the cottage 3d so that it could stand and have both an 'outside' and an 'inside'!
The idea can be adapted for many traditional tales - 3 little pigs, Handel & Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood etc. It can even be made to pop-up! 

This is the mock-up I did.

fs1

In FS1 (our 3/4 yr olds) today we made gingerbread man 'sculptures' out of craft sticks. Googly eyes, a button and some black felt tip dots completed the look.

Meanwhile I've been playing around with a slightly different style/method of creating my 'doodles'.

BIG NEWS!

My book is almost just about as near as damn it to be published! The publisher is in the throes of sending it to the printers so hopefully it'll be out in time for Xmas. Can't wait to get my hands on a real proper copy. Yay!

Not sure why blogger crops the pics!?! But you get the gist.

sketch

Played around with a Little Red Riding Hood idea the other day and came up with this;

It's supposed to show the wolf pretending to be a tree whilst an unsuspecting LRRH walks calmy by! Lots of redrawing and judicious use of sticky white labels.

I like the way a shaft of sunlight happened to find it's way across the picture when I took the photo!

story progress

Have been playing around with the idea of 4 stories running at the same time on the same page. 1st draft of a well known traditional tale has been put to paper and a colour sketch of the first page illustration roughed out - can you tell which story it is? Would really appreciate any comments on the concept - not sure if I'm putting too much thought and effort into a non-starter or not.