Thank you 5S for your endurance and patience. Your collages and mixed media, feather relief and animation all required these attributes. From the initial warm up drawing exercises of feathers to your final piece incorporating them, the progress has been phenomenal.

You have used your imaginations, explored watercolour techniques and applied both to your mixed media work. From wax resist to splatter, tissue dabbing to alcohol dipping, the results created backgrounds that captured Icarus’ descent from the sun to Poseidon’s watery grave.

The art studio truly resembled an art gallery on Friday. Your sketchbooks and artwork shared the process and your acrylic feather reliefs were beautiful. There was so much pride and deservedly so. It was an intricate process requiring fine motor skills as you manipulated newspaper, tissue paper and glue.

The arts celebration was truly appreciated by your parents and interested adults. They loved your dance performance and enjoyed participating in the drawing skills- blind drawing, continuous line drawing and observational drawing- as well as the library and classroom learning.

Below is the feedback:

‘It’s wonderful! It totally brings me back to my childhood and let me dabble in the lovely drawing. Thank you!’

‘This session is brilliant. It let us know different types of drawing skills.’

‘Lovely to see all the wonderful things the children have been learning. Thanks for the opportunity to come.’

‘Very good experience. Learnt new ways of improving drawing skills. I love it. ‘

’I had a lovely time looking around. Very impressed with the dance.’

‘A fab day as always. It’s always nice to see the work and enjoy their performance.’

‘Today I had a great day at the arts fortnight. Everything was perfect.’

‘Very nice to get involved and see the children in the school environment. A great performance.’

‘Really nice to see the work and effort that the kids have put in. Really enjoyed the drawing! ‘