Next week I have to come up with my proposal idea for an Art project that I will then teach to a nursery class in the school I’m training to be a teacher in. That was a rubbish sentence, I know. This blog isn’t about my grammar though (obviously). The whole idea of having the class roll around on paint filled skateboards went out the window when I found out I was being placed in a nursery class for 9 weeks. Nursery children are 4 (or soon to be) years old. Anyway, listening to all the different possible ways of doing this project today, I thought it’d be pretty stupid (and a missed opportunity) to not use my own work as some sort of starting point for what the class end up doing.
So I’m going to attempt to teach 4 year olds how to draw comics. Sounds crazy, I know. But it makes a lot of sense too. I’ve already spent a month with the class, and if you ask them what they really care about, or (more importantly) who they want to be when they grow up, they’ll tell you “Batman!”, “Spiderman!” or “Spongebob!”
And I feel their pain when the class teacher repeatedly tells them “no you can’t be Batman! Batman wasn’t in the nativity!” I’ve found some pretty amazing resources: Comic Tools and Teaching with Comics and I can always rely on my friend Jim Medway who’s become a bit of an authority on the subject. I may even rope him in to helping me teach the class (he doesn’t know this yet).
Guess who just got a new computer? Expect more thrilling videos in the coming weeks.
Jeff Hedges has written me some blurb for this comic, so that’s now TWO 80’s skateboard pro’s who I’ve got on (ahem) board so far. If anyone is super tight with Tony Hawk, lemme know, kay?
Hello blog readers, here’s 2 more pages, finishing straight now, this is the beginning of the empire strikes back style ending of the book.
I’ve managed to get OG Bones Brigade member Steve Steadham to contribute some words to this here comic book, hopefully have some more skateboard celebrities adding there names to the list in the next few days.
Blank Slate Books have updated their website, so you can now pre order my book even though it doesn’t exist yet and is just a pile of A2 paper covered in felt tip marks in a drawer over there, in the corner of my front room.
Okay, so I’m currently in the middle of doing a Primary PGCE (that’s training to be a primary school teacher, folks) and I’m specialising in Art & Design (well, duh). I’ve got to think up and deliver an art project in the school I’m training in, so here I am thinking of what I could do.
Transworld skate magazine holds this contest called ‘Skate and Create’ which I think is in it’s second year. I won’t attempt anything like what the teams produced for this contest, but it certainly serves as inspiration. Anyway here’s the winner of this years contest (Etnies):
I’m a huge fan of THE GONZ and he’s pretty heavy in the art world these days, always inspiring. Obviously his ’skatewheel’ contraption wouldn’t pass the risk assessment for a class of 5 year old kids.
I was thinking maybe doing something with putting paint on skate wheels and rolling around on a canvas? Might get a bit Jackson Pollock.
