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In attendance: Caroline Lynch, Liz McMahon, Claire Halpin, Julie Merriman

A small group, but somehow we managed to run over time!  The conversations were very interesting.  We started from where we left off at the previous meeting, by continuing with artists talking about their experiences of working with Creative Classrooms 2010.  I began by talking about the work I had done and then Caroline and Liz gave their accounts. 

We finished the hangings off. I am going to hm them. Geraldine bought some frames which i will put the screenprints in.

We got the children to gather together the drawings and rubbings we did and then we all went through the names of the media and processes we used in the residency. Each shild then wrote a list of the names of these on a sheet and we then decorated card for the covers of a book on the whole process.

This was our version of evaluation as it was too difficult to get the children to concentrate to give opinions. I will try at the show, Maybe record them.

My final session with the children was on Friday.  In the morning I opened the kiln before heading up to the school I was delighted with how the panels turned out until I got to the last 2 panels at the bottom of the kiln.....an element had gone and they weren't fired hot enough!  But they just have to be refired as there was no damage done, but I was disappointed that the children wouldn't see all 5 together when they saw them for the first time, but thats the risk of ceramics.

Second last day. We had to  do some more  work on the Wall hanging and I was keen to get some work from the children that they had worked on with as little adult intervention as possible.

After doing more on the Dove with the childrens hands piece, we discussed what the children enjoyed and we went for a beach scene. We brainstormed things we might see or find on a beach or in the sea.

In this session we were painting the air-dry clay portraits with poster paints, these will be coated with pva next session and attached to cardboard with speech bubbles around them.  Some really colourful work, some a bit mad like the one who had hair painted over the face and decided that it was scared, they can think of a story for everything.

In this session we were painting the air-dry clay portraits with poster paints, these will be coated with pva next session and attached to cardboard with speech bubbles around them.  Some really colourful work, some a bit mad like the one who had hair painted over the face and decided that it was scared, they can think of a story for everything.

Attendance - Claire Halpin, Maree Hensey, Marie Brett, Julie Merriman, Caroline Lynch, Liz Mc Mahon.

I had my 3rd session at the school on Friday, we finished the wall panels which I've taken back to the studio to dry out and fire.  Had a bit of a shock when I turned round and saw that one group had taken all the decoration off their panel and had decided to start again!  But the idea of the design process seems to have stuck with them and they had a plan and it worked out well.

Well I was kinda worried about today as the logistics off screen printing with such  a large group and only 4 screens could be tricky!

But it seemed to work well and the work turned out lovely.  We just worked with simple geometric shapes to get the principle across.

Then of course we worked on the hanging piece. Last week  we waxed the dove from the school logo onto 2 metres of cotton and I took it home to dye it, I scrunched it too much so it did not look white with subtle blue veins through it but more blue.