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| Drawing based on Miro |
Yesterday, after school, my daughter
pulled out the line ‘you never play with me, mummy.’ In some ways she is correct as bizarrely I’m
not good as imaginative play. I can’t
sit down and have conversations with dollies and play vroom-vroom with cars for
more than a couple of minutes without getting terminally bored. Unfortunately, swing parks have the same
effect on me. However, I do like doing
things with the kids, like baking and making, so our compromise was to draw
together. She wanted it to be a
competition to be judged by her brothers, but perhaps because I was scared of
losing, I declared it a draw and was very pleased with my pun!
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| Guess whose drawing is whose! |
We copied a postcard of a Miro sculpture
which we had seen at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2012. I was going to say last year, but it isn’t
any more. We used some new oil pastels
which I had been given as a Christmas present years ago. I don’t tend to draw with oil pastels,
preferring the chalky variety but they were fun to try out and to use the
limited palette of six metallic colours.
It was partly a case of taking my own advice as at the last C&G
weekend, I was encouraging all the students to move out of their comfort zone
and try different drawing materials. The
little one enjoyed it too and we had just about removed all the oil pastel
marks from her hands and face before school today, although I did notice a
greeny tinge on her forehead as I said goodbye...
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| The original postcard |
Do you have a preferred drawing medium?
I like pastels, ink and fine line pens if I had limit what I use.
