PHOTOGRAPHY

I have been practising taking photographs of flowers, plants and scenes that I have seen out and about and in my garden.

 

 

 

TEXTILES EXHIBITION

I went to see a Textiles exhibition at our local arts centre (No 8 Pershore). I thought the stuff there was cool. There were some artists that I preferred more than others. I thought the designs were very clever and I was amazed by how small some of the stitches were.

My favourites designers are:

Carolyn Bradburn
Pauline Barnes
Una Smith
Jacqui Cotterill

WORKING IN A WARDROBE DEPARTMENT

I went on a residential weekend in Wales with the online school that I go to. The event was called Interhigh Weekend and the idea was to take part in producing a show. I could choose whether I wanted to perform, work in stage management, technical or in the wardrobe department. I decided to work in wardrobe, which I really enjoyed. Here is a list of the different activities I got involved in:

- Costume design - I designed my own 'fairy tale'outfit
- Mask making
- Make-up and face painting
- Sewing - I created a mini version of my design as well as a pin cushion
- I also was lucky enough to visit the costume department of a local theatre.

 

 

 

PORTRAIT PAINTING OF PERRIE FROM LITTLE MIX

I'm obsessed about the band Little Mix and have been to see them perform a few times. I have drawn lots of pictures for them in a fan book I have been working on for nearly a year. I also actually met them in Liverpool in May and I got them to sign my fan book. I also did some drawings of the four band members, to give to them as presents as well as some homemade dream catchers. Leigh said I was very good at drawing and thought it was amazing!

 

I decided to do a painting of one of the band members. I chose a picture to work from which had some very bold colours. I sketched out the outline by scaling the picture up using the grid method. I then used acrylic paints to complete the picture. I found the skin tones quite difficult and had to spend a bit of time mixing the right colours. I looked for advice on the Internet and from my Mum.

 

 

 

I posted my finished picture on my Twitter account and got lots of nice feedback from other mixers (what Little Mix fans are called). I even got a tweet from Perries' Mum!

ART AND GARDEN DESIGN

We have been very busy over the last 8 months making a garden to show at the Royal Horticultural Show Spring Garden festival in Malvern. I worked with a group of 24 other home educated children, but unfortunately I was the oldest haha! The theme we had to work with was "A Great Moment in History". We decided to choose "The Invention of the Wheel". We decided to make our garden a circle shape with different sections that would be different colours of the colour wheel. In each section we put different things that represent how the wheel has been used. I enjoyed using different coloured plants to make a colour wheel collage.

 

The other kids made some clay discs and I helped paint and varnish them. We then hung them on metal trellis in the garden.

 

We also did some weaving using old bicycle wheels and scraps from the Worcester Resource Exchange. I helped to make a large dung beetle out of garden wire and fabric from the scrap store. I liked weaving with natural materials such as willow. I created some willow fences and helped to make a giant "dung ball". The dung ball and beetle were supposed to represent the moment in history when humans got the idea of the wheel from watching dung beetles rolling around their dung balls.

 

 

We also did some painting, including splatting some tyres and painting a wagon wheel like a colour wheel.

 

 You can find out more about the garden on our blog: sarahhudsonblog.tumblr.com/

FIGURE DRAWING - LITTLE MIX

I have been drawing lots of pictures of the girls from my favourite band/people (apart from my family!) Little Mix. I have been copying pictures of them from google images in different clothes and poses. It is giving me lots of practice in drawing people.

THE BUTTERFLY LION

Here is my reveiw of The Butterfly Lion in cheltenham:

 

I didn't read the book until after the performance, but when I did read the book I realised how the play followed the book so well. The actors were good and they played the parts well, without overdoing yet still having emotion. The set was very basic, but fit all the different scenes. They had a puppet as the lion which was very realistic. I could have been watching a film it was so well done. It made my mum cry as well, because it was so emotional. It also made us laugh, so it rocked your emotions but in a good way. I really enjoyed it!