Annabelle Shaw
SHA12361539
Stage 2 PTBM
PPD – Dundonald Primary School
- In out first session we looked at famous artists that used
continuous line drawing as a main method within their work
- We looked at artists such as Pablo Picasso and other more
current artists
- It was such a fun sessions and on my way home I was already
looking at teaching courses online, I enjoyed it so much.
- I liked the fact of the unknown and you had to trust yourself
Aims
Draw portraits with two constraints
1) Do not take the pen off the paper
2) Do not take your eyes of the persons face
- Our aim was to show the children that drawings don’t have to
exactly match what they see in front of them for it to be classed as
good art
- We wanted to show them that art can be whatever you want it to
be and that some times the best work comes from thinking outside
the box
- I personally think it was a really successful first class and a great
learning experience for all of us as volunteers, as well as the
children.
• I have learnt that I really enjoy working with children; I am
not sure which age yet as I have also done another art clubvolunteering session with younger children and enjoyed that
also.
• I didn’t like the messy sessions with the paint; I enjoyed the
more therapeutic processing sessions such as the surreal
collage session where you can express whatever is in your
mind.
• We started by looking at artists that have become famous
due to their use of screen-printing, such as Andy Warhol and
Chris Keegan. We also looked at other artists who used more
than two colours to screen print.
• - This session was super fun but also very messy, I’m not
sure I enjoyed the messy part of it so much; I prefer doing
projects that don’t use so much paint.
• I really enjoyed this session as it let you express what ever
was in your mind; to me this is the perfect process for an art
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Annabelle Shaw
SHA12361539
Stage 2 PTBM
PPD – Dundonald Primary School
therapy session. There are no rules, no constraints and you
can be whoever you want to be, whether it is you or
somebody else.
• I hope that in the future sessions we can find other activities
similar to this to do, where you can be free to express your
self
The outcomes from the collage session were my favorite.
I think the whole experience of doing my placement has been very
helpful, it has motivated me to think about what I would like to do
after university. It has been a great learning experience and I
would advise anybody else who is doing it to start as early in the
year as possible so that you can get in as many sessions as
possible.
• That working with kids takes a lot of time and patience
• You have to be organized and plan what the sessions are
going to be in advance so that you can get everything bought
and ready before hand – this is something that I need to
work on!
• Some ideas take longer than you think and others take less
time so you need to have back up plan ideas just incase
• I have learnt that I can still get excitement from the simple
arts that I learnt when I was a child and so there is hope that
others can as well
• I personally think this has helped me and effected my future
as I know for certain now that I definitely want to work with
people, possibly children
• I am interested in finding out more about teaching courses
• I aim to take over organizing the Art club for the 2nd year
students next year so that they can take advantage of doing it
for their PPD
• I have since volunteered at other children's clubs as I
enjoyed this so much
• It has made me realize that art therapy is definitely
something that I want to pursue but it is going to take a lot of
time and hard work to get there, it isn’t just going to come
over night
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