Protracted

Who knew you could make such beautiful art using a protractor of all things?

Inspired by this post on the fabulous Art Projects for Kids website, the boys and I had a go at making these geometric pictures in the style of artist Frank Stella. They turned out fantastically well and were fun, and even meditative to do. As you can see, even though we all three followed the same restrictions (six traces round the protractor - three vertical, three horizontal and limited ourselves to six colours each) the three pieces are very different:

Here's Waif working on his:



And Gman steps back to contemplate his work in progress:



And here's the three finished pictures:

Catch Up

Is it really that long since I posted?  Yikes.  Time flies when you're having fun.

So what have boys been up to?

We've visited several local art exhibitions, including my favourite, a textile art exhibition at Blickling Hall.  No photos of the exhibition but here's the boys enjoying the grounds:






We've done some more expressionist style paintings. These are expressing an "angry" feeling using unusual colour combos:





We've been on a visit to the Imperial War Museum at Duxford. The boys are lucky enough to have a grandfather who worked as an aircraft engineer at Duxford in the early sixties, so he was able to give them lots of insider knowledge on the planes.







Another highlight of the last few weeks has been the first session of Forest School (there are five more 2-hour sessions to go). Here the boys will be learning about such exciting things as using tools, making a campfire, identifying plants in the wood etc. The first session was promising, hopefully I will be able to post some pics in an ensuing entry.