sketches

We are fortunate in our school to have a music programme where every child has the opportunity to play an instrument. My class are currently playing cornets. Today in art we had a go at sketching them.


I was really pleased at how well most of them turned out - after only a very brief snippet of instruction of how to represent something behind something else.

ideal stocking filler

'A is for Art' booklet back in stock in time for Chrimble! An ideal stocking filler for young or old at an incredible price!
Am just wondering why this book sells exceptionally well whilst other stuff in the shop seems to languish. Any thoughts welcome.

owls

A parliament of owls.

drawing music

Yesterday I tried to enthuse the class into representing sound visually. We started off by drawing single sounds/instruments - cymbals, a banjo, bongos etc. We looked at the work of Mondrian, Kupka and Kandinsky. Then we listened to various pieces of music and had a go at portraying them as images. This is one of the pieces that was done in response to 'Shake, Rattle & Roll'- you can clearly see the inspiration of Mondrian's 'Broadway Boogie Woogie'.

pudsey

A couple of raffle prizes for the 'Children in Need' day we're having on Friday at school. Should have taken it before I put them in frames, to lose the flash.

Ink & pencil crayon on paper, 18 x 13cm.

scribblz

Whilst keeping my fingers crossed for a successful outcome with my wonderful 'can't think why no-one has done it before' book idea, I managed to do a couple of quick scribbles in my pocket moleskine.

Pencil underdrawings, inked over.

off to the agents/publishers!

I've decided to send the idea and a dummy book off to various agents and publishers to see if the real, hard-nosed, bottom-line commercial world thinks there is any mileage in it. Failing that, I'll seriously think about self publishing- 'cos I think it has potential ( as incidentally does Korky Paul, who very kindly said it was a 'great idea'!!).