Day 1

Today is our first day together and we spend a little while introducing ourselves. We then hand out our Art Workbooks. We each have an Art Workbook, made up of sheets of newsprint and coloured sugar paper which are stapled along one edge. We use our Art workbooks to make ‘Doing Drawings’ which are great fun.  

The Yellow Group, Model and Artists 
at work in Junior Infants

Toni gives each of us a turn to be the Model  and we make different poses. The idea is that someone can tell from your drawing what the model is doing , that’s why we call them ‘Doing Drawings’. The Model has to hold the pose for one minute  and the Artists (that's us) draw the main parts of the body. 

Some of our "Doing Drawings"

We use words that we know like Head, Knee, Hip, and others which are new like Torso, Pelvis and  Pivot Points, which mean bits that can twist and move. Before we know it we have loads of ‘Doing Drawings’ made in our Art Workbooks and Toni tells us that she'll see us next week.