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Goose Gandering Art Club Gallery

On these pages you will see some of the artwork from the clubs - follow the links to see the pictures! You can try these ideas yourself - click on 'things to do' and download worksheets, hints and ideas...the Gallery is updated regularly so please visit again!

Postcards We drew Geese on special postcards and sent some of them to our friends in Denmark. You can see some of the ones they sent back, as well.
Sketchbooks
Keeping a sketchbook is a really good idea - you can use it to make notes of things you see - quick sketches to turn into big paintings later.
Learning how to draw a goose
Drawing a goose is easy if you start with simple shapes then join them up.
Download the worksheets
and have a go!

Large pictures using acrylic paints
For these pictures we thought about the landscapes the geese fly through on their incredible journey...
T shirt painting
We made a design on card and put this inside the t-shirt. We then traced over the design using acrylics and permanent marker pens.
Our visit to RSPB Arne reserve..

Last time we went on a nature walk to look for wildlife on the heath, and then visited a bird hide to see geese and oystercatchers.

This time we are going to Studland beach...


Using scraperboard With scraperboard you scratch through the black surface using special tools, making shiny lines - like drawing in reverse. These pictures are of some of the animals found in Russia and the far North, where the geese spend the summer.
'Antonia on Art' Did you see the 'Rolf on Art' TV programme? This is our version. All three school clubs met together - we painted one small canvas each then put them all together to produce a huge picture based on one of Antonia’s paintings.
Clay Beach Tiles We made beach tiles from DAS clay, with geese footprints and shells and seaweed.

Big Geese! Study Gallery workshop - big wire geese and mod roc...
Exhibition at the Study Gallery Exhibition of our work, shown alongside Antonia’s work about geese, at the Study Gallery in Poole.
Big Paintings from Denmark
Big Paintings from Denmark The children from Denmark made these big posters about the journey of Brent geese...
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