Art classes

During Terms 2 and 3, Abigail was enrolled in a course at Pine St Children's Art Centre called "Discovery of Clay". It was a wonderful course run by Di (Dianne) Turner, a gentle motherly artist with creative ideas about using clay. At this time Abigail was interested in play dough and this allowed her to make things that she could decorate and keep.

She made many wonderful things: figures, pots, plaques: hand built or with moulds. Once she made a mug one week but painted another child's mug the next week. There was some dissent over whose mug was whose but each child took the mug with their painting work on it.

By the end of Term 3 Abigail was looking for a break from clay class. Probably as she got progressively more tired after school as the term went on, by the end she would fall asleep on the short 15 minute drive from Balmain to Chippendale.

Holiday art classes too were enjoyable, after the inevitable initial wobbly by Abigail as she found herself in a new environment. The teachers were all very down to earth and the studios shabby but comfy, not uppity like ArtSpark or ArtEst where Abigail went on past holidays.