College Rules My September

Oooh - sorry to have been so elusive - the start of term is BUSY BUSY BUSY - and I have been so very very very tired at the end of each day - energy for anything other than children, teaching and the odd 'Fitsteps' class has all but disappeared... 

Therefore - I'd like to share some fun stuff we've been doing with the students.

This week our forty-four open minds and creative souls spent the day working very hard to make one hundred drawings in just one day - I love that!  Lots of styles, techniques and materials - plenty of approaches to making a drawing were explored...

Here's the Maths:

4 people, 

+10 groups,

+11 zones, 

+10 drawings in each zone; 

+10 zones visited by each group

= 100 drawings

Themes were: 

'Let's Get This Job Done - DIY'

'Stationery Still Life'

'Woodland Wonder'

'Letterform Chalk Drawings'

'Car Park'

'Hey, Good Looking, What You Got Cooking?'

'Following In Your Footsteps'

'Patchwork'

'Monsters'

'Urban Recovery'

'Ten Green Beans Hanging On The Wall':

Last week our students became human photocopiers - as they enlarged and replicated gorgeous 'mid-century modern' book cover designs from all over the world. They had to work together to mix up batches of paint and attempt to match up their personal quarter enlargements - to create the whole. They were given A6 images and had to paint on A1 - finished articles are double A0...MASSIVE! Here are some of them - and the originals. They make an amazing impact on the walls of our little old Hub:

There are more but maybe they're for another post....

Lastly, something different...

I was checking emails tonight and one from Etsy flew in with a link to an article about this seller and her ethos. There was this little video of her made a few years ago.

I found it quite inspiring and want to share it:

I rarely feel in control of my life so it feels like a place - a life - a million miles from mine - a dream..