It was dark and quite cool (the school's heating was on the blink!) which added to the atmosphere. There was a "fire" - or LED lights, tissue paper and twigs - to add to the feel and give us a little bit of light to do our drawing by. The children were all really excited to be given walls and floors to draw on. There was lots of energy in the room and the first couple of groups seemed to need to make marks on as many bits of wall as they could before settling down to some more focussed drawing. The installation has been left up at the school for a few days, so parents, staff and other children can come and take a peek at the cardboard cave.
A day in a cardboard cave.
It was dark and quite cool (the school's heating was on the blink!) which added to the atmosphere. There was a "fire" - or LED lights, tissue paper and twigs - to add to the feel and give us a little bit of light to do our drawing by. The children were all really excited to be given walls and floors to draw on. There was lots of energy in the room and the first couple of groups seemed to need to make marks on as many bits of wall as they could before settling down to some more focussed drawing. The installation has been left up at the school for a few days, so parents, staff and other children can come and take a peek at the cardboard cave.
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Some close ups of an enormous group painting that happened in Lowestoft the other day with children and their carers. It was amazing fun and the whole piece is stunning. We also made a little "istopmotion" time lapse movie of its creation which I will post up here soon.
There's loads of work going on at the Sainsbury Centre at the moment - here Mini Studio are helping out with a spot of painting and decorating.
Recently acquired a couple of overhead projectors. I am intending to use them in workshops but first I let my kids loose on them who invented "OHP wars" ( lovely peaceful game!?). I could see the potential of having 2 or more OHPs set up so that the drawings can interact with each other and become animated. We all enjoyed the scale and the high contrast of the light and shadow and played with creating images and atmosphere. We could have been there for hours - shame about bedtime.
A packed room of 30 dutch language students, who all spoke better english than me. A lively chatty group who got stuck into drawing and making which was inspired by some of the masks in the Sainsbury Centre collection.
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