My granddaughters, 8 and 6 have now completed 3 "portraits" of houses, and I thought it would be lovely to do the village church. I invited three other little girls from our village who are 8, 7, and 6. Today it's half-term and there was a brilliant blue sky despite it being only 10 degrees, so we started 'thinking and looking'. We wanted to get "a feel" for the subject so we walked up with viewfinders, and they each took a photo on my i-pad. We won't look at the photos again until the very end, unless I want to draw their attention to something. A viewfinder can be useful to isolate the subject. I'm not sure how useful it is to a six-year old but it introduces the topic of … [Read more...] about Portrait of the Village Church
Chilton church
Another little church design
The reward for a job well done is...another job! As they say. Anyway since our village church is combined with the next village church and I had done a lino cut of our church for the village welcome pamphlet, the next village needed one too. Here they are arranged together as a banner: It was much more difficult to use as a design because the church is really long and would have been tiny compared to the end-on view of the one on the right. Fortunately there was a convenient conifer and I could end the church just there. It is really twice the length and you can only see half of it here. The paper I have used to print these on is really lovely. It is a Japanese paper called Japan Shoji … [Read more...] about Another little church design