Final Real Visit and culmination of  our project was a revisit to Mount Stewart. Another kind of layering, Spring superimposed on memories of our Autumn first visit, final meeting on first meeting.

Since our first visit in September of last year our whiteboard conversations have led us to the fabrication of fantastical costumes, we have drawn ourselves into Mount Stewart layering photos, drawings, observations and avatars. Our avatars have mutated in our drawings, they have been superimposed on images from our Autumn trip, they have turned up in collages and iPad drawings. Patterns and colours have informed our ideas and we have developed narratives using layers on the classroom/virtual whiteboard. We looked at David Hockneys exhibition in the Mac “I draw I do”  we took photos and experimented with layers on iPads. We read the story The Sea Hare, about the Princess who could see everything and the boy who had to hide. We looked at camouflage and thought about being visible and being invisible. We drew pictures that showed our ideas using layers. The avatars we have invented for ourselves have morphed through all of these drawing and research stages and have ended up being expressed in costumes:

We had a glorious day and loads of action Blending in and Standing out at Mount Stewart

blending in and standing out at Mount Stewart