This week has been all about the kids requests. Monday they wanted time on Canva. Tuesday was Scratch computer programming and today was Starbucks morning and Uno! Lots of fun was had by all!

Corpse Exquisite

This is a surrealist art game that your will probably have played at some point. You fold paper into 3 sections and one person draws the head. The pictures are then passed around and the next person draws a body. Finally the last person draws the ‘legs’. The idea is to make the section you are drawing as weird as possible and, of course, you don’t know what the finished creation will look like until the very end.

We practiced 4 art techniques, to add texture and shading,  while doing this; hatching, cross hatching, stippling and scumbling (isn’t that a great word).

I hope you enjoy having a look at the kids creations.

Japanese Kimonos

This week we learned about the symbolism and history of kimonos. Then we designed our own kimono thinking about some common motifs in Japanese culture.