Today our local library held an event with childrens author, Susan Steggall, here's her website. If you go to the childrens work it'll show you what she does during her workshops. Hopefully the boys work will be on there in a couple of days.
She's an author and illustrator, she doesn't draw her pictures in a conventional way, she builds up a picture layer by layer using paper and other objects. Her children's book are about trains, tractors and buildings so the boys were in their elements.
She starts by doing the sky and layering up the bottom of the picture
Soloman and Cody with theirs nearly finished
Then they are framed
The finished articles
When we got home Eden and Clark went to our church youth workers house to rehearse for tomorrows Coffee Church. ( More on that tomorrow!)
Rabbits were cleaned, bikes were got out of the shed for the first time in months to be rode out the front of the house.
All in all it's been a lovely day!
What a brilliant crafting idea. Glad you had a good day - here it rained on and off apart from half an hour of sunshine just before sunset.
ReplyDeleteIt was great fun. The sky was black here a few times but it stayed dry x
ReplyDeleteMy girls used to love going to the activities at the library. This one looks particularity good. Crafting AND meeting an author
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She was really lovely too.
ReplyDeletewhat a great idea!
ReplyDeletethe boy's finished pieces look wonderful!!
-melissa
Thanks Melissa, they really enjoyed it x
DeleteHow lovely to have access to workshops like that, and what gorgeous artwork x
ReplyDeleteOur library does quite a few of them, we are very lucky x
DeleteThe boy's pictures are lovely. I can recall my kids going to some great events at our local library, and also our local museum held children's fun days making masks and collages and such like. They were free events from what I remember, and much appreciated to keep them occupied during the holidays when money was tight.
ReplyDeleteThanks Helen, this was a free event, they usually are. Our local museum use to do free events but they charge now, shame really, they use to be good fun but when you've got four attending it starts to get pricey!
DeleteThey're fabulous. Building up the picture in this way gives it a great effect.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jo. It is good to see the different ways of doing art/craft. It's hard to make a bad picture doing it this way, whereas somebody who finds it hard to draw may become disillusioned with Art and feel they just can't do it. I'm hopeless at drawing whereas my brother is a brilliant artist and draws with his foot as he has a shoulder injury!
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