November 2003 

Samhain

Whitechurch N.S
"Art Tutor in Schools"
in association with
Waterford County Council

We did art after big lunch. We mixed lots of colours, like golden yellow and cerise. I made a butterfly. It was very bright. I mixed gold with my other colours. it was the best. I like when we do art in the morning. 

We painted a big A3 sheet of paper. Then we pretended that we were playing the keyboard with our fingers on the paper so that we made a design on the paper. I really like doing art with Rita Scannell.

We had art yesterday. We made a Starburst Book. Later we put colours on a sheet. We put it down on another picture and we took it off. There were all different colours.

We made a jumbled jigsaw. We had all very nice pictures. It was great fun. Some were black and white or some were black and pink and some other colours too.

We were sticking a cover onto the starburst book. We were lighting a candle to singe a ribbon. We folded the painting we made.

We have a new art teacher named Rita Scannell. We made a colour wheel. We used yellow, red and blue and we made orange, green and violet. She said that we were the best 3rd& 4th in all the schools she’s been in. She said that we are all great artists.

We had a sheet of paper and we had three colours each. Then we painted the whole page with all the colours on top of each other and we put finger prints all over the page. We got another sheet of paper and painted it in two colours.

Today we cut out hearts and stuck them on squares. Then we made covers for our diaries. Afterwards we got painted paper and we made animal collages. They are beautiful.

Today we made two Abstract Colour Compositions. We did one of them with all one colour and we did another with the colours of a painting we got.

Today we made a book out of six different coloured sheets of paper. They were yellow, orange, red, blue, violet and green. When it was finished it looked bright and colourful. With six different colours it shone with a difference. We made it by folding the paper a few times and then glued them all together. It was called the Starburst Book.

Today we were mixing up colours. For example red and yellow makes orange. Then we put our sheet onto someone else’s who had a similar colour to me. I put my picture on his. Later Rita painted a full A3 size sheet of gold. Two people got the sheets and she put the gold on the sheets. Next we got the exact opposite as we did earlier and we put a tint on it. They turned out very nice. By John

On Friday we made covers for our diaries. We used the sheets of paper we coloured in on Tuesday. Then we folded it in half and drew half a heart and we cut it out. Then when we opened it, it was a full heart. I thought what we did was good. Written by Jim.

Today we firstly finished our collages. Soon Mrs. Scannell gave us a photograph between two. They were photos of plants and trees outside in school grounds. We all had to go out and find them. Once we did we all came in and did an Abstract Colour Composition. We all got a magazine and we cut out colours that were the same as in the photo. We all had great fun. Written by Alix.