Today we talked about the upcoming visit to see David Hockney’s I Draw I do Exhibition at the Mac (tomorrow)

We talked about looking and layers

David Hockney is totally preoccupied by looking. He has illustrated 6 fairy tales from the brother’s Grimm….the first story is all about a princess who can see everything and everywhere, a young man wants to marry her and she says she can only marry someone who is able to escape her view, he gets 3 chances to conceal himself and eventually he manages to hide where she can’t see him.

We examined Hockney’s drawing technique, how he builds layers of mark-making, and how he can reveal the hidden boy in all of his pictures by masking him in semi-transparent layers:

We are going to experiment with processes inspired by David Hockney’s techniques.

We have been practicing drawing in layers on the collaborate whiteboard

On our trip to Mount Stewart in the undergrowth Curtis found an arrow, with feathers , his avatar now holds the staff of the blue flame.

Andrew’s photographs were of mushrooms, leaves and a tree – here we are trying out some layers

Dean draws cartoons of characters with special powers and attributes, his symbol has axe head horns, but there are more characters coming into play on the whiteboard…

We have been working with physical layers in the classroom//studio, Tyler is in the jungle

and so is Lara

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I made myself an avatar and drew myself Visiting Coney Mountain

Lichen Surviving