It's been a busy week...getting into the swing of being back at school and planning some super short projects to do with the boys as there are only a couple of weeks left until the end of term. My lovely assistant Poppy pointed out that I seem to have a bit of a neon addiction going on which I hadn't noticed but on reflection I can see what she means...
I've been wearing my lovely gorgeous spotty blouse from Whistles. I had a slight disaster with a bottle of fluorescent yellow ink so had to whip it off mid point through the day and dash to the dry cleaners...not very sensible to wear silk blouses in the art room!
Inspired by the wonderfully talented Jill Bliss and the equally splendid Sania Pell...I decided to combine florals with fluro and got the boys to produce fine liner contour drawings onto marbled backgrounds.
I was really pleased with how enthusiastic the boys were and they produced some really beautiful study sheets incorporating lines, dots and patterns from the Jill Bliss nature drawing journal that I bought earlier this year.
I only had two lessons to teach my year 4 boys before school is out for summer so I needed a quick fix...they had been looking at op art and colour for most of the term so I decided to buy some big bright tubs of hama beads so that they could create op art inspired coasters or multi-coloured crazy creature key rings. This idea was met with a few cheers and the boys produced several designs on squared paper before getting their little mitts on the beads...
I had a little practice and was really pleased with the results...I think I will be buying myself a large tub of hama beads over the summer to make some cool coasters...it was such fun and they will look fab on my wooden trunk coffee table. Anyway I'm sure you will agree that dear Poppy was right, it has been a bit of an unintentionally neon week!
