Millennium Gallery

There is usually a good turn around of exhibitions at the Millennium Galleries and I try to take Daniel to as many of them as possible. We haven't been for a while, but as he didn't have Spanish this week, we took a bit of time to see the current exhibitions before meeting up with Jonathan,

There were three exhibitions we haven't seen, Graphic Nature, Kateřina Šedá: Líšen Profile and the Ruskin Collection. As a result of the seeing some of the detail of Ruskin's paintings and drawings, Daniel is going to have a try and get the same style using one of his plants as a study.

We still need another visit to catch up with some of the other exhibits but this will keep us going for a little while

April's Art Workshop-Mosaics

Yesterday was a great workshop.  We did some mosaics, most done using recycled products.  Some of the children incorporated air drying clay.  Some pictures of the workshop can be seen here.

As our masterpieces were still wet when it was time to leave, they've been left in the office for safe keeping until next month,   Pictures will be taken when they finally come home.

Can't wait to see what the theme will be for next month.

Art-March 8th

Theme this time-Sustainability in three groups-artistic, everyday and technological.  Artistic and creative thought was shown to be important to come up with new ways of sustainable innovation.

This was followed by a visit to the local park where everyone participated in exercises to enhance sensory perception-1-walking round getting snapshots of the park, 2-collecting five natural objects of interest and making up a story about them, 3-drawing a sensory map of the area.

Once back in the classroom, the children collaborated to draw a sensory map of the park, using symbols, pictures and words. 

The session ended with us watching the following video Using Natures Genius in Archtecture