Familiar and unfamiliar faces

Familiar and unfamiliar faces

Meeting the children for the new phase is exciting. It was great to see Aimee H again. She was able to show the webcam to the younger children from P3 and P4. I recognised some faces from recording children’s voices for the Every Voice in the School piece and some people had come in for portrait sessions last year. They have grown up a lot in between.

Before the first session, I had sent a letter and an 8-page fold booklet to the children to introduce some of the ideas and themes for this phase. They fed back some ideas about the booklet. Some of  them had figured out who the letter was from. I had used some Roald Dahl words like “human beans” in the letter and they caught the link to the book that they were reading as a class: The BFG. We looked at Quentin Blake drawings and experimented with drawing and painting. We talked about words like ‘focus”, “sketching”, “dreams”, “age” and “portraits”. Time, as ever, flew in very fast. The group tuned in immediately and didn’t seem to be phased at all by the virtual connection.

I showed the children examples of Blake’s work and also showed them how other artists used watercolours. We experimented with colour washes inspired by these artworks.

Inspired by the BFG, I had ordered jars to keep the children’s work safe. Everyone has one and the plan is that throughout this phase of work we can use these vessels to store imaginative work of all kinds.

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