Bernadettes Artist Residency - Third Class (with artist Sinéad Curran)

 Today was such a relaxing day - wet outside so it was nice to be indoors and working with clay - the children created some wonderful little clay decorations out of pieces of pine and heather stamped onto the clay - These are now waiting to dry - and later - if they wished could be painted - or just left as they are!! We also finished the jars today by turning them into globes - filled with water and some secret ingredients to make the orbies float inside..  I am sad to say it was my final day with this class - but I've very much enjoyed the experience and hope to see them all again soon.. Keep up the creative work everyone - you are a talented class! Thanks to Emma, the school and support teachers for everything. Orbies in a jar - waiting to dry before they can be turned upside down. 

 This week the children collected some leaves and various small foliage in the school grounds to decorate jars - next week we will create something with the jars - but today was so much fun designing the jar- they can of course be left as they are right now - and used as a decoration for fairy lights or a candle - We also did some paper marbling - inspired by the colours of nature. Below here is the finished artwork that we created over the last two weeks - using the cyanotypes and the fabric artworks that each child made in the class - and they are all sewn and combined into one large artwork - its looks so amazing!!  The details of some of the pieces here are so creative - -well done everyone - your should be so proud! Here are the decorated jars -- after spending some time outside collecting colourful petals and leaves.   And finally below are the marbled papers - didn't get to take photos of them all - but they were so creative...

 This week the children began to work on another large fabric piece - each of the children took a square of fabric and we all decided to create an artwork on each piece - the work will later be stitched together to form one large artwork - like a quilt or a robe to represent the winter season - the natural world   - another productive day are we can see here with the amazing work by the children,                                                                             This is the Artwork that we completed last week - now hanging in the classroom for the children to enjoy- it looks great.  These are the completed artworks from today - amazing display of work.  some even created faces a lovely tree here This is the Ice Queen These are ...