Author: Miss Mack

CBCA Book Week 2022

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Getting ready for bookweek. celebrating the theme ‘Dreaming with eyes open’.

I am planning to go ‘big’ this year with many activities and exciting events and displays. Today I am playing with some motivational posters.

Playing at Still Life

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This was a quick but fun little challenge. I have not really got into still life painting, but thought that I should give it a try – and hey, I was forced to eat some mini apple turnovers!. This is a mostly watercolour artwork (Daniel Smith and a little Gansai Tambi) but I did finish off the turnovers with pencil. A little white gel pen was also used for the highlights (then toned down with coloured pencil).

Yellow Rose

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Here’s today’s first art. Coloured pencil sketch of a lovely yellow rose. Lots of blender pencil, but also vaseline as a blendrr as a trial. Fun fighting with materials…oil based pencils reacting with other binders. I like it when you don’t know what to think.

kookaburra sketch

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This sketch was a pretty quick one – less than 2 hours. It was created using 2B pencils, blending and burnishing pencils and paper mill sketch and wash paper. Although far from perfect, I do like his cheeky attitude.

same angel, different media

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I really love this angel. She can be found in the South Rockhampton Cemetery. I have previously painted her, and this time I used a 2B pencil to create a sketch. This is on Bristol board and is slightly smaller than A3. Blending and burnishing pencils, as well as paper stumps for blending were used extensively in this. This was about 6 hours work.

thinking routines

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I created these (nothing new – just all in one place) to encourage discussion in mathematics specifically, but really in every subject area. How often do we write ‘discussion’ on a lesson plan and have no real clue how that is going to happen? Here is my attempt to scaffold that.

link to my canva created images