After my real visit to the school (quite a while ago now- falling a little behind on the blog to be honest) the class made the most amazing drawings based on the journey drawings we made the first day. We spent a good bit of time taking some photos of the drawings using the webcam and had a wonderful discussion comparing and describing the two huge drawings.  It was a good intro to using Eluminate as an interface – how to draw with, take photos, and add text.

Our chat lead us to texture. I looked around my studio and the class looked around their classroom for different textures.

We left the session for a while to go and explore different textures around our environment by taking rubbings.

The above images are from my studio (well, my apartment actually as the internet is down in my studio) Using newsprint and a blue oil pastel I made some rubbings from tiles, wallpaper, wooden step, and more wallpaper.

When the class came back they brought up their brilliant work for me to see over the webcam.

I loved the rubbings that we were collecting – and wondered about using them as the bases for making drawings.

We broke up again for a while to try to make very detailed drawings from the rubbings we had taken.  The above image was my attempt.  I left the class working away on their drawings until the next session.