This Week I...

 ...made the title to go at the top of the seaside themed classroom display at school. I used colouring pencils to make the brown parcel paper look like driftwood and I think it turned out pretty well!

One of the boys in the class left the school at the end of the week so I made him this card which had notes from all his classmates stuck inside. I think I was channelling Buster from Arthur with this character.

How was your week?

Classroom Display Beach Painting

The topic for this term in my class is the seaside so the class teacher asked me if I would do a big painting for a classroom display. Since it was the Easter holidays I agreed.

The painting is 2.13 x 1.29m so outside was the best place to do it, and luckily the weather was quite warm and sunny on the day I chose.

We had decided that I would do the painting on fabric so it would be easy to roll, so I found and old sheet to use. Since it was for school I used their poster paints and I continue to be amazed what I can produce with the stuff (like with the winter painting I did for the classroom).

The is the biggest painting I've ever done and it was a bit tricky as I couldn't see the whole thing all as once as it was bigger than the table I was working on. I could have put more detail in but since it's only for a classroom display and I'd already spent over 6 hours on it I decided this was a good place to stop.

Sidenote: I binged-listened through the first half of Serial while painting it. I know, late to the party, but I'm all caught up now!

Once we were back to school I stapled the painting to the wall, trimmed the edges and attached the border.

And this is what it looks like now with all the topic words and other seasidey things added.

Winter Window Painting

At the end of my first proper day at my new job I helped the class teacher turn the role play area into Santa's workshop. She thought that it would be fun if we had a painting to go across the back to look like a scene through the windows. I offered to paint it, because I didn't have anything better to do that evening.

Armed with the pieces of backing paper we cut to fit the two windows and a bag of borrowed poster paint, I put on some Christmas country music and got to work. I definitely surprised myself with what I could achieve with poster paint, which is never my medium of choice. 

The painting looks great blu-tacked to the windows and all the other teachers have been popping in to our classroom to have a look. I fear I may have set the bar too high though and will be asked to do similar things frequently.