introducing .......

..... our new family member, the art wire! We've been intending to do this for sometime, to provide somewhere to display/keep artwork. And now it's here. And it's magnificent! It goes all the way round the learning room, so there's lots of room (although it seems to be filling up already!). So, from Tess & Brodie .... 'good job Daddy!'.

To celebrate, I thought I'd do a quick run down on some recent works. First up, rockets & astronauts - from Brodie ......

and Tess (complete with smiley face constellation) .......

Tess's drawing of 'when I'm 10' ......

Brodie did some stamping and made a telescope (and wrote 'A telescope by Brodie' across the top - the letters for his name are inside the squiggly shape, top right, but hopefully the rest can be made out) ......

We tried our hand at silk painting last week, and the pictures look great stuck on the window with the light shining through. This is Brodie's train (what else?!) .....

Tess's hearts ........

and my flower ........

This was Tess's original design for her silk painting - of a princess (note the high heels!) & her unicorn, but it is quite a small drawing and too detailed for it to work with the outlining & filling method that we were to use (the silver blur on the right is some of the silk outlining gutta that got spilt) ........

Rob, Tess & Brodie went to a children's art workshop run at an art gallery at Gunwharf Quays last month. The theme was rock stars, and they designed their own album covers (though whether even the slightly older children would know what an album of this size was is probably debatable !). Here is Tess's ..........

and Brodie's ........

A fairy that Tess made at the Inwoods (small school) summer open day .....

Tess's painting on a piece of terracotta of a sausage dog and a cat, done at a home ed art group last term ......

And Brodie's Santa's sleigh made at the same group (he's played with it a lot, so it's got a bit battered - it did originally have wooden skewers for the sleighs and could stand up on its own!) .......

Some colouring, by Tess .....

and Brodie .....