History, Maths & Geography by mark 7-8 ish

History: A Tudor sailor

Not really sure about the historical accuracy of this one.
"in Tudor times the only job you could get was to be a sailor"
"the main thing you could eat was a stale biscuit with a maggot in"

But nice to see the motifs of my art reocurring, the bloody knife held by a sailor who looks like a giant elf.



Maths: "I collected 10 star wars toys and for a treat daddy gave me 3 more. How many have I now?"

Do you recognise all of the Star Wars characters? Love the Stormtrooper boobs in this picture. I remember there were a lot of these draw the addition assignments - it could be quite tiring and i would end up drawing smaller and rougher pictures as i went along.




Georgraphy: A contour map of the antartic shelf, in 3-D layers made out of cardboard

Artwork by Mark age 7

Twighlight of The Gods by O.B Gregory - a review and picture by Mark age 7 (ish)

"The Twilight of the gods is a very good book beacause i kept on reading it. Thor is a good character because he has got three things: a hammer, a belt and some gloves."





My picture to accompany my incisive review:
1) How much felt tip did I use?!!
2) Yay, a giant wolf with blood on its teeth!

Art by Mark, 9 years old

My mum just gave me a big box from the loft, full with my school books and artwork. I thought it might be fun to post some of it here.

Lets start with this piece, which i recon might have been done when i was about 9.



I say 9, as that was when the new Action Force toys came out, including Snake Eyes who may have had a slight influence on the black knight in the picture. By slight, I mean I basically drew him as best I could and then added a few extra lines to suggest armour. I have been relatively restrained, in only painting a little bit of blood.

Beanoland closure

I was dragged along to Chessington as Jo's brother and his kids came to visit. As such I happened to be at the Beanoland closure by accident, amd witnessed a record breaking custard pie fight.

To mark the closure of Beanoland after 10 fabulous years Chessington celebrated by holding the world's biggest Custard Pie fight. More than 1,000 custard pies were thrown in under two minutes by 300 people at Chessington World of Adventures on 21st September , smashing the current record of 271 participants for the largest custard pie fight.



The pies, filled with 216kg of real custard and 50kg of whipped cream, were sold for £1 each, and raised more than £300 for Merlin's Magic Wand charity.






It had a real "last day of term" feel to it, i guess because it was probably the last day for all the staff working there. They all ended up covered in pies, probably moreso than the kids, and the characters - Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, Gnasher and Softie Walter all jumped in the fountain afterwards.




http://www.chessington.com/press/press_releases/2009_releases/21_09_Bye_Bye_Beanoland.asp





Comic book website bleeding cool ran my story here. (a bit of a regular occurance now).