{"id":1264,"date":"2026-04-21T14:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/woodmuir2\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:16:41","slug":"brighter-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/woodmuir2\/2026\/04\/21\/brighter-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighter Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the weather is becoming brighter and a little warmer we were inspired by our classroom flowers.  We looked closely at pictures made with oil pastels and discussed how great pastels are for drawing and making bright artworks. We practised some pastel techniques before starting to create our flowers! They look amazing, we are all super artists!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/woodmuir2\/uploads\/sites\/7864\/2026\/04\/21141405\/IMG_0203-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/woodmuir2\/uploads\/sites\/7864\/2026\/04\/21141405\/IMG_0203-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/woodmuir2\/uploads\/sites\/7864\/2026\/04\/21141405\/IMG_0203-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/woodmuir2\/uploads\/sites\/7864\/2026\/04\/21141405\/IMG_0203-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/woodmuir2\/uploads\/sites\/7864\/2026\/04\/21141405\/IMG_0203-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/woodmuir2\/uploads\/sites\/7864\/2026\/04\/21141405\/IMG_0203.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/woodmuir2\/uploads\/sites\/7864\/2026\/04\/21141415\/IMG_0202-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/woodmuir2\/uploads\/sites\/7864\/2026\/04\/21141415\/IMG_0202-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/woodmuir2\/uploads\/sites\/7864\/2026\/04\/21141415\/IMG_0202-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/woodmuir2\/uploads\/sites\/7864\/2026\/04\/21141415\/IMG_0202-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/woodmuir2\/uploads\/sites\/7864\/2026\/04\/21141415\/IMG_0202-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/woodmuir2\/uploads\/sites\/7864\/2026\/04\/21141415\/IMG_0202.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/woodmuir2\/uploads\/sites\/7864\/2026\/04\/21141426\/IMG_0201-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/woodmuir2\/uploads\/sites\/7864\/2026\/04\/21141426\/IMG_0201-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/woodmuir2\/uploads\/sites\/7864\/2026\/04\/21141426\/IMG_0201-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/woodmuir2\/uploads\/sites\/7864\/2026\/04\/21141426\/IMG_0201-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/woodmuir2\/uploads\/sites\/7864\/2026\/04\/21141426\/IMG_0201-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/woodmuir2\/uploads\/sites\/7864\/2026\/04\/21141426\/IMG_0201.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the weather is becoming brighter and a little warmer we were inspired by our classroom flowers. We looked closely at pictures made with oil pastels and discussed how great pastels are for drawing and making bright artworks. We practised some pastel techniques before starting to create our flowers! They look amazing, we are all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/woodmuir2\/2026\/04\/21\/brighter-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brighter Days&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7637,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whole-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/woodmuir2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/woodmuir2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/woodmuir2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/woodmuir2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/woodmuir2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/woodmuir2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/woodmuir2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/woodmuir2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/woodmuir2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/woodmuir2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}