• Iyear1-cats spent Monday and Tuesday at Hazeldown Primary School in Teignmouth Devon where I was given an overwhelming welcome, as they use my drawing videos a lot and felt they already knew me!

    I kept forgetting to take picture. I managed to get a picture of year one showing their Cat & Dog Drawings without showing any faces and too picture of the work of some of a Year Three.

    They are a doing an ancient Greece project at the moment, so I showed them how to draw the Parthenon, with Euclid watching on. Some people get perspective straight away, while others have a more interesting interpretation of the concept!

    Either way these are all amazing drawings for Year Threes. I loved how one boy inverted his drawing so he could draw the roof, because that’s what he thought was the most important part – very clever. Each drawing follows exactly the same instructions but each shows such individuality and personality – I love doing this!

    Well done everyone – you all worked incredibly hard and carried on even when you thought it was all going wrong – if you keep drawing, it often all comes together at the end!

    Below is my first Euclid video to get you going on some Ancient Greek geometry.

     

  • A couple of weeks ago I visited Mowmacre Hill Primary School Nr Leicester during the day I did several drawing sessions with the children, but only remembered to take pictures of one of the sessions, which I’m pretty sure was Year 5.

    I asked if there were any dancers in the class and gained a volunteer who proceeded to throw some shapes. One pose was great and I asked here to hold it a minute while I drew her. Someone said she looked like an ice skater, so I added skates and a rink and an audience and so a figure drawing turned into an illustration.

    I drew it all again, step by step and was this time followed by the rest of the children and here are the results – wonderful, I think. All of them the same pose, but all different according to the personality and style of the artist. Well done and thanks for a great day!

  • I hadn’t realised that my Viking Vik colouring sheet and masks had fallen off my site.

    It’s Up Helly Aa in Shetland next week and they want to do some drawing activities in the library. I’ve quickly made the Longship page to colour in and revived the colour in masks. Click the picture to download the PDF sheetsVik_maskWulf_maskViking-Ship-Col-Shtsmal

     

     

     

     

     

    If you want to draw some other Viking Vik Stuff, Here are the videos – Have fun!

    \And here’s a video to explain what UpHelly Aa is all about!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5euzvdqdD0