![]() ![]() Once complete, students reflect on their work noting materials (mediums) and techniques they used when making their Diem style cow, as well as the best thing, and what they might change if repeating the piece. A TINY bit of one corner of the bag is cut off to enable squeezing out fluid lines of puffy paint! They could outline or add lines to their design for amazing TEXTURE. The next lesson we made puffy paint with PVA glue, shaving cream and food colouring in a zip-lock bag, and mushed it around to mix the 3 ingredients. It is then painted over to fill the gaps and a contrast colour painted for the background. Use bright and fluorescent oil pastels to add lines and shapes and patterns, considering the features of Diem’s work. Students then outline in black or a dark colour crayon or pastel. Students are shown how to draw a simplified cow, Diem style – just the outline-in the shape of a Diem painting. We viewed some videos of Diem in action to learn about his materials and techniques, noting how he draws the cow, and methods of applying paint- brush, finger, hand, straight from the tube. ![]() I used a Seesaw activity for them to respond. They were then given a task where they described the elements of art thy noticed in a cow painting. Students viewed and discussed Diem’s cow artworks on his website. “He gained worldwide fame because of his vivid paintings and lively, colourful representations of Dutch cows.” We viewed the Peter Diem – Cows website for examples of his artworks and discussed the elements of art Diem used to make them: colour, line, shape, texture, space. Peter Diem (born 1945) is a Dutch artist well known for his expressive use of colour and texture in his art. I shouldn’t have bought magazines because I own some unread ones, but I couldn’t pass up these topics.Peter Diem inspired cows By Year 3/4 students Scientific American Mind special issue on The Sexual Brain New Philosopher: Technology and Your Brain supporting my growing interest in comics. by Sana Takeda Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff by Steven Cummings, John Rauch, and Tamra Bonvillain Monstress, #1 by Marjorie Liu, illus. I enjoyed the anime of this series and though I know everything, I’m still excited to read these. I was curious about mangas so I picked these up and now I’m hooked on the format. both of these mangas are by Hiromu Arakawa. Here is a review of Enchanted Air on the Vamos a Leer blog. Their giveaways are hosted monthly and to enter, all you have to do is comment on one of their posts during the month that the giveaway is for. I won this in a giveaway hosted by Vamos a Leer. Giveaway winĮnchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings by Margarita Engle The novel is slated to be published in June. I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan ![]() made available for purchase a colouring book with the title Color Me Crazy. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty The Rise by Sarah Lewis The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith, aka JK Rowling The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson The Templeton Twins Make a Scene by Ellis Weiner, illus. Peter Draws is an American illustrator and doodler who has gained more than. I’m looking forward to that sequel to You and I grabbed the grammar book because it’s $5.98. Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes Easy Guide to Grammar Since I am interested in reading this series and I previously received the third book for free, I thought it best to gift myself this box-set.Ĭolor Me Crazy by Peter Deligdisch, aka Peter Draws The School for Good and Evil series box-set, which includes books 1 & 2: The School for Good and Evil A World Without Princes Some I bought, some were gifted, some are giveaways, and some are ARCs. So here are all the books I acquired for my birthday. Then I sat outside for a bit, enjoyed the fairly nice weather, and watched the sun set and planes fly by. Once up, I glided to the book store - yes, glided because I daydreamed the whole way - and afterwards treated myself to a burger because I craved one that whole week. I just went with the day and spent it how I wanted to - relaxed. To celebrate, I spent my birthday relaxing and doing nothing except rolling around and around in my warm, soft bed until noon or 2 pm or whatever. ![]()
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