• castleThis is the last of my entries inspired by my two day drawing event at Talbot Heath Schoollast week. It already seems a long time ago!

    Year Two had been studying castles and had drawn knights but they hadn’t drawn a castle.

    castle-3We discussed what was required in the drawing. As I drew a castle, we decided that we needed a Keep and an outer wall with a moat and portcullis and a drawbridge. Slit windows, a flag and a swan in the moat were other important considerations.

    castle-2We also decided that the drawing would be better with an arial, 3d view rather than a 2d sideways view, even though it was going to be much harder!

    The children did brilliantly! I don’t think they realised quite how difficult the drawing was. Sometimes it’s best not to know but to just get on with it!

    castle2Many thanks to everyonefor a couple of great days!

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    Have you come across that shop called Tiger? It a bit like a mini Ikea, stuffed with stuff you never knew you wanted, and probably still don’t, all at a price that makes you think, “oh, what the heck, I might as well get it anyway!”

    My daughter recently bought me an iPhone microscope from there. It simply clips onto the phone. A light comes on, to illuminate the object. Simply place the silver part over the object and you are focussed.

    I thought it would be fun to do a tiny drawing and see how it cam out. I like the round framing of the picture. It gives it the look of an old image, trapped inside a rock crystal ring, as worn by a fourteenth century saint!

  • lobne-dogI did a lot of drawing with Talbot Heath School last week. When it was Year 5’s turn, they had been working on a poem called Lone Dog by Irene Rutherford Mcleod. We discussed how they imagined the dog and they had quite a wolfish image in mind, so that’s what we drew.

    lone-dog-2I didn’t get to see the poem until half way through, so decided to put the moon in the background as a frame for the title and leaving space at the bottom to write the poem or quote a couple of lines.

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    lonedogI used a polystyrene sphere to explain how to see and draw the head from different angles. The nose is basically a box built on the front of a sphere. You may see evidence the planning drawings.

    Here’s a video showing how to draw something similar that I did some time ago.