Well, when the group woke up this morning, I bet none of them imagined that they would learn to write their names in Chinese today!
Today is the first day of the Chinese 'Year of the Tiger' and I looked up everybody's name online here http://www.chinese-tools.com/nameshttp://www.chinese-tools.com/names
and printed them off. Of course there is no such language as 'Chinese' so I'm guessing it's Mandarin, although the website doesn't actually specify, which is a shame.
The fun of the session is that NOBODY can do this writing, so there are no experts.
Ways of working were varied from tracing the characters to copying them, or even making uo our own! I also brought along tiger pictures, the character for 'Tiger' and some others like 'Friendship' 'Luck' 'Sky' 'Peace' etc.
Everyone had a go first with marker pens, then with pen and ink, some copied the tiger picture & some traced it or used it as a collage. By the end, everyone had managed to copy some Chinese characters, I was really proud (as it's by no means an easy thing to do!).
Monday 15 February 2010
Tuesday 2 February 2010
Monday 1 February 2010
Today's session & meeting
Today we did drawing from objects - I brought along a lot of colourful toys, plastic fruit & flowers, fridge magnets, ornaments etc plus some big sheets of coloured sugar paper, pastels & pens and the group drew from what they liked.
As usual I'm blown away by the scope of what people at DICE draw - from abstracts to realistic depictions of what they see.
The meeting this afternoon focussed a lot on where the funding for the group is going to come from, as it's now very low. Several ideas were put forward, applications are being put in and I hope that these lovely folks will get the cash they need to keep the Dice rolling. The best thing about this group is how user-led it is, which makes it fun, always surprising and very informal - also very empowering for the people who use the drop-in.
I've got some ideas to get blog entries from those who don't use computers, so that it's not just me going on all the time, too :)
Highlights of the day - the huge smile on Mark's face when he arrived and saw Bik, Laura singing Abba songs, Mark O's undersea drawing and the group's contributions to the meeting (which makes meetings a lot more fun than they usually are!).
As usual I'm blown away by the scope of what people at DICE draw - from abstracts to realistic depictions of what they see.
The meeting this afternoon focussed a lot on where the funding for the group is going to come from, as it's now very low. Several ideas were put forward, applications are being put in and I hope that these lovely folks will get the cash they need to keep the Dice rolling. The best thing about this group is how user-led it is, which makes it fun, always surprising and very informal - also very empowering for the people who use the drop-in.
I've got some ideas to get blog entries from those who don't use computers, so that it's not just me going on all the time, too :)
Highlights of the day - the huge smile on Mark's face when he arrived and saw Bik, Laura singing Abba songs, Mark O's undersea drawing and the group's contributions to the meeting (which makes meetings a lot more fun than they usually are!).
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