See You Outside

New Work

Everyone made beautiful artwork in their sketchbooks last wednesday, using lots of different materials and subjects.  Tohid made a careful study of the unusual structures that connect the reservoir to the dam and used coloured pencils to show the detail of all the stone work and the iron grid at the top.

    

Aisha has made a wonderful study of the bridge that curves along the overflow from the reservoir.

   

Iqra worked very carefully to make this painting of the strange looking Muscovy Duck:

   

Kellan used the Pentel brushes to make this sensitive study of a Mallard Duck on the water:

    

A Busy Morning at Brackenhill

There were so many different and exciting things going on at school on Wednesday morning, everywhere was full! So we turned the dining room into a temporary 'studio', with big plastic tablecloths to keep the paint under control. Before starting work, we had a chance to see our blog and make comments. You can read these under the previous post below.

Everyone worked hard all morning, making beautiful new pictures in the manila sketchbooks we made ourselves two weeks ago. During last week's trip to Ogden Water we took lots of photos to use at school. Angie made some really big prints of them to use as reference and you could almost imagine you were still at the reservoir. We also had many photos of ducks as they are so popular with everyone and interesting to paint and draw.

Three cheers for Viv who had sharpened all the crayon pencils!

On Monday we hope to post some pictures of the new work, but in the meantime here's a lovely duck feather to admire.

Our first day at Ogden Reservoir

Annie's Duck

Yesterday we were very brave and spent the day at Ogden Water. It was very cold and damp with hardly any sunshine for our walk around the reservoir. Along the way we stopped to make artworks in our sketchbooks, the ones we made last week in class.

We used a new kind of paintbrush called Aquash made by Pentel. Its like a felt pen but you can fill it up with watercolour paint and choose your own colours. The Aquash brushes are easy to carry around and you don't need to bring water bottles or palettes. We made pictures of the dark wintery trees, the golden moor and the greyish blue water.

After lunch we used quill pens made from goose feathers to draw the ducks and geese that live at Ogden Water. It was fun to make pictures of birds using feathers. We drew with black ink and white ink on the Manila paper.

Our drawing ink took a long time to dry because the weather was so chilly and damp so while we waited, we watched the ducks fighting over bread. We also collected lots of small, beautiful duck feathers. Back in the Ogden Water Education Room it was lovely and cosy as we packed our bags ready for the coach journey back to Brackenhill. Here are three ducks drawn by Shubhon.

Ogden Reservoir

Hello Brackenhill!

Wednesday 9th April is the start of See You Outside our exciting project helping children to explore the outdoors through visual art and creative writing.

Artists Angie Rogers and Viv Owen will visit Brackenhill Primary School in Bradford and help to make your very own sketchbooks ready to use next week on our trip to Ogden Water, a reservoir on the moors near Halifax.