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mrs crosbie mrs crosbie wednesday 1 april 2015 the corbie part ii the corbie part ii the corbie such a good poem and such a great subject i love crow images so full of life and movement the children appreciate the sini ster qualities that the bird represents it s also a great way to learn the words of the poem i like to use words in a piece of artwork and sometimes do so in my own work i think that is a natural thing for a child they use a mixture of words and images to express themselves from an early age and are used to books having complementary illustrations along side stories in this case we used the words of the corbie poem and sounds that the crows made as a background and texture for the drawing of the bird we used thick and thin black felt tipped pens for the written work berol are the best the children are allowed to ignore all the rules of writing you can imagine how well that goes down with the pupils and unpopular with their class teacher i become by ignoring spacing the rules of capital letters and even spelling to the children are able to keep the words flowing and create texture and pattern the contrast between thick and thin lines and large and small words start to create a sense of distance too the qualities of the felt pens allow the children to create shadowy trees by painting wet tree shapes the ink from the pens and the water blend together to make spooky grey silhouettes one to remember for halloween the class then created a crow shaped stencil tricky cutting and using soft drawing pencils the scribbled through the opening it is important that the pupils do not outline the shape of the crow but let the ends of the pencil texture define the edge of the shape encourage the pupils to make the pencil lines follow the directions of the feathers we also added yellow beaks and beady eyes to create a vocal point posted by maureen crosbie at 07 33 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels birds black pen corbie crow drawing feathers halloween illustration poem spooky stencil the corbie wash whitehils primary wednesday 18 february 2015 lets get the paint out some of my class teachers still have a fear of getting the paints out who can blame them who wants paint all over the maths jotters and have to face the wrath of the angry cleaner who is trying to scrub the paint from the table without the use of chemicals but i love paint days and so do the pupils this series of lessons were done to revisit all the type of paint techniques that they may or may not have visited before it soon becomes much more than that each school is different and i just work with what they have but generally i try and set up at least 5 different activity areas paint either brushes of different sizes simple printing blocks rollers bubble wrap my old favourite sponges etc also the available paper a4 is generally big enough and should be various colours and tones the trick is to limit each area to one activity eg one type of brush and two colours the pupils really have to work hard to exploit the possibilities of the combinations make sure you limit the paint to a few colours white to avoid the production of brown another lesson be aware you need to be prepared for the children to produce many pieces of work organise the drying and make sure that every piece of paper is named language can also play a part in this lesson the children can consider the experience as a series of ing words it s a really worthwhile exercise in another lesson the pupils will create a pile of circles of various sizes and arrange them concentrically in different sizes we looked at the work of hundertwasser for inspiration some children added lollypop tree trunks to the finished work some of the classes brought in pizza boxes that we painted to arrange the circles on this gives an extra dimension and elevates the finished piece into a canvas i have also used the painted paper sheets to create african masks so come on get the paints out its worth it you will produce so much more than just a mess posted by maureen crosbie at 02 33 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels african masks airlie school collage composition eassie hundertwasser isla school newtyle school painted paper painting pattern printing shape texture trees wednesday 3 december 2014 post it portraits with a car still half full of post it notes we set about using them to create self portraits we took photographs of the pupils pulling faces this was to remove all the facial symbols that the children would usually rely on when drawing a face and create interest and asymmetry the students divided photographs of themselves and copied them on to the notes using pens or pencils and using all the skills that the had gained in previous exercises it s not a new lesson i have seen it done before but it really works so well and gives the children such confidence at a crucial time in their artistic and intellectual development it still amazes me to think that these children have achieved such a high standard of draftsmanship at such a young age some fun was had with some of the spare pieces too and some of the younger classes recreated another masterpiece would van gogh have been proud too posted by maureen crosbie at 12 04 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels class work drawing enlarging observational drawing portrait postit notes southmuir primary texture tone van gogh more post it drawings we then started working with a number of post it notes with groups of curved lines like little rainbows or nobows as the children were calling them because of the lack of colour sometimes we added the post it notes to a larger piece of paper and extended the lines creating linear patterns and helping the children with their pen control and allowing them to express their own designs some classes wanted to try and join their pieces together on the wall and of course some pupils got their rainbow even the younger classes got something from this lesson black felt tips you just can t beat them sometimes i find it hard to use anything else posted by maureen crosbie at 08 34 45 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels black pen composition line northmuir school pattern postit notes whitehills primary post it drawings i spent far too much of my summer holidays worrying about what angle my drawing programme should take in the new term 8 schools 21 classes 575 pupils a lot of equipment to resource and travel around with so my big idea need a small scale post it notes pencils and pens the pupils were delighted to have small bits of paper to work on and enthusiastically developed different textures tones and patterns some classes used pencils others biro pens the idea was to display them in a block of 4 and i thought the slightly temporariness of the display would be quite appealing and a bit different classroom environments are not always conducive to the sticky qualities of a post it its always best to add glue i regularly came in to school to a snow storm of post it notes all around the room read more posted by maureen crosbie at 07 54 14 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels biro pens newtyle school northmuir school pencil pencil drawing postit notes texture tone older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me maureen crosbie kirriemuir angus an art educator and artist working currently with people living with dementia view my complete profile labels 3d 3 african 1 african masks 1 airlie school 5 animal 1 applique 2 auchterhouse 1 birds 2 biro pens 1 black pen 3 blitz 1 blueprint 1 bookbinding 1 bookmaking 1 books 1 burn s day 1 calligraphy 1 card 1 castle 2 chalk 1 charcoal 1 christmas 1 circle 1 class work 1 collage 5 collograph www gallusglass com 1 colour 5 colourwheel 1 composition 2 contour drawing 1 contrast 1 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