Flutterbyes! Continuing the butterfly theme Andrew encouraged the children to think about the art work that they were looking at the previous session. This session was all about using clay to create butterflies. The children cut their butterflies from … Continue reading
Butterflies Why is a butterfly called a butterfly? This and many other questions about butterflies were generated when we started the next two sessions . Andrew suggested to the children that butterflies have a very short life span and … Continue reading
Portraits Andrew started this session by introducing the children to an artist called David Cushway who uses his own body as inspiration for his art, David Cushway explores the passage and effects of time through his art. Andrew explained … Continue reading
Transmogrification! I was really looking forward to this session the idea of changing the form of the clay and recording it through drawing was intriguing. The children started with a cube of clay which they were to draw. … Continue reading
Session 2 started with a few communication problems , the school internet connection was down and we were expecting an engineer out to fix it so………problem…. How would we communicate with Andrew? With some creative thinking we were able to … Continue reading
Friday 24th January Here we go again ! Virtually There started, with a new class and a different focus. In our planning Andrew and I decided that we would look at time and it’s effects on materials. ‘Change and Duration’ We … Continue reading
Session5 Session 5 January 21st This session started with Andrew showing us the progress on his house. This served as great encouragement to the children. Some children were still drawing on the details onto the house , we had cats … Continue reading
Yikes! I’ve actually started my journal I didn’t think I’d get here as I’m not the most technologically adept person. Anyway here goes… When I heard that I would have the chance of working with Andrew again I was really … Continue reading