The nights are fair drawing in.

It is dark at six o'clock now. I prefer the lighter evenings,because I can go for walks after work and look for inspiration in my local environment. See above from a few weeks ago.This week I got back from working and it was as dark as when I left early in the morning.

The only thing which cheers up these dark nights is  hot chocolate - with marshmallows and squirty cream .Inspiration - a screenprint of a lovely mug of hot chocolate could be added to my to do list  then if I print a few maybe the craft and art shops in the town could sell them..

I really enjoyed working with the primary 3/4 this week and yesterday we were looking at you tube videos about Autumn. I had to overide Glow - and log into Google and type in- Autumnal Scenes. The pupils then used the images as examples to draw their own scene.
It was amazing to see such high quality videos showing some  lovely scenes. You tube is one of the best resources a teacher has now for visual images.

 It is so important to change as technology does. A good example of what children watch was glimpsed today as I drove home. In a house I saw mounted on the wall a huge T.V. screen showing very fast moving cartoon.
 This is the norm for most children now and images are very fast paced. We used to have Andy Pandy in black and white on T.V. We had the choice of three channels and no computers or IPADs.

Educators are bringing in new technology into the class. As an artist teacher I would like to have the resources available to enable pupils to use the computer or Ipads to produce art work . I think this would help many pupils to focus on a task and learn important technology skills.