WHEN I GROW UP . . . . .

Mrs Hardie wanted to be a vet, a pig farmer and then a journalist, when she was growing up - now she wants to be an artist!  Mrs Milne asked some of the younger boys and girls what they wanted to be when they grew up and I wanted to share the fantastic black pen drawings they created with her, at Birkhill - aren't they fabulous!  

The detail always comes out in this work, as the children are concentrating so hard on line and pattern, as they aren't distracted by the complication of colour at this stage.

PRIMARY ONE AT LIFF DO IT AGAIN!

I am SO impressed with the boys and girls in Mrs Stewart's class at Liff Primary School . . . they never cease to amaze me with their wonderful attitude and gritty determination to have a jolly good go at experimenting with different materials.  More wonderful drawings for their sketchbooks, of leaves (using chalk on black sugar paper and black pen on brown parcel wrap - one of my favourites) were created.  They had to think about lines and patterns and making their drawings bigger - scaling them up, which they have become very good at indeed.  Printing next - so watch out for more wonderful work from the Primary 1 class at Liff!

LIFE IS SWEET!

My pupils have been learning about different watercolour techniques and when to use them in the work they create.  In our first lesson, we used the wet-in-wet technique, to blend together the primary colours and create our own secondary colours.  A wide range of greens, oranges and purples appeared in a variety of tones.  The children then learnt that if they waited until their painting was dry, that they could use the wet on dry technique, to paint the detail, without the edges blurring or smudging.

They also tried holding their brush not just at an angle to achieve a thick line, but also upright like a flagpole, so that they could create some very fine lines aswell.

As always, Mrs Jenkins put up a fine display of the work her P6 class created.  She incorporated their beautiful little paintings into a display alongside the class work they had been doing on similes.      

These look so good you could eat them!  The teachers had great fun picking out their favourites and imagining what they might taste like.  The children took their favourite ones home and put the rest of them into the giant class jar - yum!