Hello  well today I was interested in seeing David Hockneys work in the Telegraph. When he first emerged as an artist the media made a huge thing of the fact he was gay. Now he was hailed as a chain smoking Yorkshire man who changed the Art world.

He likes photography and the way it captured pictures he did not want to be trapped he said by doing photorealism. His work always inspired me because of the visual busy ness  in his pictures and his use of bright colours and pattern.

He captures the beautiful as a camera would do then puts his own spin on things.

His work is well worth looking at and I admire him and put him on my top ten favourite artist list - Picasso..well he is no 1.

Beginning to think like an art teacher is very exciting and gives me an excuse to think creatively again.

As a student I was always on the look out for material to inspire and that lay stagnant for a while as nappies and babygros took over my world. Now the babies are grown up and inside me is a desire to create order out of chaos even outside of the house!!
When I started on the artist teacher course at uws my mind opened up and then one day zing it was back - inspiration- last week - a whole cross curricular plan was made in my head based on the different way that plant seeds are dispersed. Thisplan covers language biology music geography art p.e. drama - and even rme c .I have written this to remind myself that I can do this..

My first blog post!This is the theme I am focussing on just now -the vegetation in my local environment. This is my first drawing of the vegetation. Using charcoal I just drew what I saw. Here also is a statement of intent which has to go into my blog.