Term 2 - Week 2

In Term 1 we worked a lot on Kirk's manual skills but it is only now he is showing some marked progress. In April we did a fortnight of watercolour paintings to improve his dexterity and to give him more confidence to create. Here are a few  samples. Some amount to little more than colouring in while others are fun and random.

Monochrome Shades: Pen & watercolour

Marbling : Shaving cream & watercolour

BATIK: Watercolour & dribbled wax

BATIK: Watercolour and painted wax.

Still life: Water tank

Pen & Watercolour

Landscape: Sunset

THEY CAME

As I mentioned in the previous post, "They Came"  is an exhibition by HolyGreenCow currently on show at BRAG and it gave us the opportunity to play around with her technique so Kirk made this; A GIANT ALIEN KITTEN flying on a BIPLANE, TERRORISING a woman! ARRGHHHHH!!!!!

Kirk thinks this is hilarious and so did I at his age. I spat my milk across the dinner table and rolled on the floor laughing when I saw Kitten Kong on The Goodies. So what are we learning here? SCALE!

Week 9 - 11

WOW! That disappeared quickly! Sigh...it's always the way at the end of the month when I'm grant writing.
 I think you've basically got the picture of what we do each week (endless reading, writing & maths) so now I will just write up the highlights.
HPE: The seasons continue to turn so swimming had its last day, soccer had its first day and we had a pleasant time snorkelling with Bern & Mum & some local home edders. Kirk is enjoying kids club and is interested in the bible stories & ethics they do. Not so good at involving himself in the games and craft but I am sure that will come.
Science: The dragonfly project is slowly growing and in a few weeks I hope we will have something worth showing off. I borrowed mum's camer to take some photos but they are very difficult to photograph. So when the new camera arrives we will have to do the whole "camera man in the wild" thing.  The tadpoles are now testing their legs on dry ground so Kirk's science observations are almost finished. Bernie took him to draft stage, typing it on the computer - unfortunately he made it extremely difficult for them both by by acting as though he didn't know how. I'm finding this behaviour frustrating so I think I might try contracts.
Art: Brian taught us some pencil techniques and today we did a BRAG workshop applying various watercolour techniques and had a good look though the gallery. I was especially taken with the satirical exhibition inspired by 1950 sci-fi movies, "They Came" by Holly Green Cow and Kirk thought it was hilarious so I think we might have a go at the technique once the camera arrives. Samples soon!

Underwater Scene using watercolour and collage techniques made at  BRAG with teacher, Michelle.