Since our last session Ruby posted us on our photographs.  We spent ages looking through them and picking out our own ones.  It was really exciting to see all our photos, especially the ones others had taken.  That was great fun!

Ruby skyped us again today and we used a new programme on the laptop and Ruby was able to upload pictures directly to our whiteboard, it was really cool!  She showed us lots of pictures of landscapes including pictures from Van Gogh.  We all picked a photo and we looked at it and talked about the shapes and colours we could see in them.  Then Ruby explained to is about a picture she wanted us to draw.  We drew a picture based on the photograph we were looking at earlier.  We drew pictures of trees, animals, houses, rivers and lots more.  Ruby explained to us about using a variety of textures on our pictures so we used lollipop sticks, wool, different types of paper and lots of different colours.  We used the lollipop sticks to make fences & doors & things like that.  We used the wool to make clouds and patterns in the sky.  We used card & different types of paper to layer together and make stems and parts of buildings.

We really enjoyed today’s session, it was really exciting and lots of fun to use our photos to draw a picture.  We’re really looking forward to our next session when we will get to work some more on our picture.  Ruby said she is going to post us on another parcel with different types of paper, photographs and a few more bits and pieces in it to help us with our pictures.  Hopefully we’ll get them before mid-term break next week!