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 →

After Lunch the children remembered their mornings work in five words and made some fabulous sculptures using the action words