Starting the Katie trail

With Ella Bella almost completed, I am now turning my thoughts back to Katie. These days it always seems to be one or the other. But this is fun! I am trying to devise a simple but effective art activity fold-out for the National Gallery of Scotland. I have a very short space of time to plan and create this. It has to be finished by early February! The idea is to produce something to make the gallery more fun for children. One slight problem is that several imporatant paintings are going on loan overseas, so I can’t produce a simple look-and-search trail. This photograph shows where I’m up to, so there’s still a long way to go. But I think it will fold out with some paintings reproduced that have elements missing. Children will be invited to draw the missing things. In the centre there will be a large empty frame for children to “create their own masterpiece”. The gallery will “hire” colouring pencils so children can engage in some creativity while looking around for inspiration. And it will be produced on good easy-to-draw-on paper as well… very important!