Seeing : Day 10 – P2, Ballydown P.S.
Being brightly back lit, these drawing in particular possess a lovely underwater quality.
Being brightly back lit, these drawing in particular possess a lovely underwater quality.
This was a first for both myself and P2 to experiment with drawing on tissues. (Well actually P2, I discovered this at 10pm the night before while I was doing some extra prep for our time together.) The resulting qualities … Continue reading
P2 then had to imagine they themselves were inside the hedge and had to find a space to look out through between their tissue drawings. Everyone became very excited about the idea of peering out through the drawings.
P2 made delicate drawings of some of the details they had seen within the hedge, using permanent, black pen on tissues. With great delight, they positioned each tissue drawing on a window pane, using a water sprayer. This window was … Continue reading
Relocating the deep, dark and dense places within the hedge. P2 had been asked to imagine themselves as small creature, the size of their little finger nail, living in the deep, dark, dense places within the hedge. The previous week … Continue reading
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5
These are the photos taken by each group down their “telescopes” into the deep, dark and dense. I saved this whiteboard for our final round up conversation. It was quite lovely to hear the intake of breath with excitement as … Continue reading
Back in the classroom, P2 lined up in a train and responded to my asking what they had discovered while out searching in the depths of the hedge that morning. Using Marratech I recorded their replies and have transcribed them … Continue reading
These are the photos taken by the 5 groups, with the flash off. They carefully worked the camera into the spot they felt best represented the words ” deep, dark and dense”.
Red Line Drawing Leaves Ground Covering