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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 447284" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>On the art front - difficult child 3 has the same issues. The school worked with us in this (remember, we NOW have the dream school placement - correspondence, but a real school with real teachers who really work hard to help). They noted that difficult child 3 likes digital photography, seems to have a good eye. So they swapped his curriculum away from having to draw, paint or collage. Even collage was a problem, because you have to make choices - will I use this bit, or that bit? Choice can be crippling. And they switched it to photography, set him specific, ordered tasks to do. That really helped - giving him a scaffold to work with, to help him get his work done. I remember one photographic project he had to do - stand somewhere where there was something he wanted to photograph, and take lots of photos in 360 degrees. Also focus up, and down. Try to englobe yourself with photos. Then print them and assemble them. He loved that one - went to a local skate park which a local artist had decorated with mosaics. He also took close-up photos of the mosaics, which came in very handy for the community a few weeks later when some kids vandalised the mosaics. The artist used difficult child 3's photos to get the vandals to fix the damage.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 3 likes to take close-up photos of flowers and animals. I often walk with him and point out colours, or possibilities. Of he will want to take photos of the sea, of waves washing over rocks. Which reminds me - the sea is wild today (gales) and it could be an incentive for him to get his work done - "get it done and we will drive to the beach down the road to photograph the storm."</p><p></p><p>Photography has taken a new turn for difficult child 3 with the arrival of the 3DS hand-held thingie. It takes colour 3-D photos which difficult child 3 is now processing through the computer into monochrome, viewable by red-blue 3-D specs. So he can upload them onto a website and anyone in the world with the red-blue specs can see his 3-D photos. He took one shot (I was not there!) hanging over a cliff looking down at a sea boiling around the rocks below. Amazing shot... but he worries me sometimes. And he has taken photos of Sydney historic buildings, of statues, of trees - anything which will show a good 3-D contrast and texture. We were at the NSW Art gallery (itself an amazing historic building) and I got him to come inside briefly to look at the art work in the foyer. He seemed to prefer the abstract and modern art, because it wasn't trying to tell him what he should see, he could choose his own interpretation.</p><p></p><p>On the drive home we go past an old brickworks with those tall chimneys. It's now a park. He snapped some photos while we were stopped at the traffic lights next to the chimneys and then he added some features (from the 3DS) to show sparks coming out of the chimneys. This is the springboard to art for him.</p><p></p><p>He will be 18 by the time of the next local art exhibition. I'm trying to encourage him to print off some of his work to enter it in the exhibition, he will be old enough.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 447284, member: 1991"] On the art front - difficult child 3 has the same issues. The school worked with us in this (remember, we NOW have the dream school placement - correspondence, but a real school with real teachers who really work hard to help). They noted that difficult child 3 likes digital photography, seems to have a good eye. So they swapped his curriculum away from having to draw, paint or collage. Even collage was a problem, because you have to make choices - will I use this bit, or that bit? Choice can be crippling. And they switched it to photography, set him specific, ordered tasks to do. That really helped - giving him a scaffold to work with, to help him get his work done. I remember one photographic project he had to do - stand somewhere where there was something he wanted to photograph, and take lots of photos in 360 degrees. Also focus up, and down. Try to englobe yourself with photos. Then print them and assemble them. He loved that one - went to a local skate park which a local artist had decorated with mosaics. He also took close-up photos of the mosaics, which came in very handy for the community a few weeks later when some kids vandalised the mosaics. The artist used difficult child 3's photos to get the vandals to fix the damage. difficult child 3 likes to take close-up photos of flowers and animals. I often walk with him and point out colours, or possibilities. Of he will want to take photos of the sea, of waves washing over rocks. Which reminds me - the sea is wild today (gales) and it could be an incentive for him to get his work done - "get it done and we will drive to the beach down the road to photograph the storm." Photography has taken a new turn for difficult child 3 with the arrival of the 3DS hand-held thingie. It takes colour 3-D photos which difficult child 3 is now processing through the computer into monochrome, viewable by red-blue 3-D specs. So he can upload them onto a website and anyone in the world with the red-blue specs can see his 3-D photos. He took one shot (I was not there!) hanging over a cliff looking down at a sea boiling around the rocks below. Amazing shot... but he worries me sometimes. And he has taken photos of Sydney historic buildings, of statues, of trees - anything which will show a good 3-D contrast and texture. We were at the NSW Art gallery (itself an amazing historic building) and I got him to come inside briefly to look at the art work in the foyer. He seemed to prefer the abstract and modern art, because it wasn't trying to tell him what he should see, he could choose his own interpretation. On the drive home we go past an old brickworks with those tall chimneys. It's now a park. He snapped some photos while we were stopped at the traffic lights next to the chimneys and then he added some features (from the 3DS) to show sparks coming out of the chimneys. This is the springboard to art for him. He will be 18 by the time of the next local art exhibition. I'm trying to encourage him to print off some of his work to enter it in the exhibition, he will be old enough. Marg [/QUOTE]
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