on the way to Dublin to meet Mr Boyle
thinking about islands of predictability in a sea of chaotic unpredictability.
thinking about islands of predictability in a sea of chaotic unpredictability.
Today I got drawing 23 instructions for drawing from the children at Our Lady of Lourdes: Erin 1. Draw a circle in the middle of the page. 2. Put in a big spot in the middle of the circle. 3. … Continue reading
We had a short session this morning where children showed their charcoal drawings and talked about the instructions they created for making them. I was able to hear and see tantalising snippets between audio/visual freezes We have got the over … Continue reading
Well today’s session was very much in the dark, we couldn’t get into a virtual classroom at all. I asked the children to use charcoal. This is the first time they used it. Teacher Tony asked children to touch smell, … Continue reading
testing drawing no 3: extended version: charcoal version
Self generating drawings: Last week’s session looking at Cesara Pietroiusti’s “untitled Drawing no. 039″ Ideas of (de)generation, corruption in repetition accumulation and erasure More Recipes for Drawing In tomorrow’s session I am planning to go monochrome Walking a line: exploring Paul … Continue reading
We worked with an adaptation of Cesara Pietroiusti’s “untitled Drawing” – first of all checking what we understood from the original instructions and responses: I made a version so each child had a copy: Lot’s of interesting ideas came up I … Continue reading
I was amazed to see the amount of work Mr Doyle’s class had been doing. There were multiples of of everything, inspired from fractals and geometry – paintings and sculptures all about pattern, scale, tones and colour, rhythm and repetition. … Continue reading
Children when making instructions were quite ambitious…building time machines and portals were part of the equation…. children tested instructions and passed them on to another group (at the start of the day we had played Chinese Whispers, incredibly there was … Continue reading
After Lunch the children remembered their mornings work in five words and made some fabulous sculptures using the action words