Sunday 17 March 2013

St Patrick's Day parade 2013

This year I was asked by the principal of the local primary school to help with a float for the school parade. The idea for the float was "school of the future." The school is hoping to raise funds for upgrades and improvements. The most noticeable example of this is the roof (the current is a traditional Gable roof, like the ones on houses. The principal would like to improve that with a more modern flat roof).


Thursday 14 March 2013

Féile Scoil Drámaíochta 2013 (backgrounds / props)


From time to time I do art work for the National (primary) School here in town. The Féile Scoil Drámaíochta (School Drama Festival) was coming up and they needed props. This year I was fortunate to have large cardboard packaging boxes to use as backgrounds that can stand on their own. I don't know how to describe the boxes. They had Kodak labels on them and were about the size of A1 sheets, maybe bigger (at least 4ft x 3ft and thin when closed up properly). The school has access to a resource centre in Castlebar which often has these handy boxes as well as paper and other strange bits and bobs.