permanent day care english teaching tool

SLOVENSKO

during the break i had had i was almost tormented by the thought that what i planed to show you fresh will become older. this is the trace of an activity that, combined with some other circumstances, forced edita to replace me in one of my congregations, having sermon instead of me. it was during vacation time and as my wife and our youngest son had several days of fun at my in-laws', i worked at home. i'm fine the sacrifice, but i fear that my esteemed friend would find this an unworthy reason to miss the summer leisure.

to add to the smaller day-care room another playspace, edita had a hole opened in one of the walls. not to the street, though, but to my former office. she en-visioned a rainbow above it, and i was to draw it. because rain-bows consist of several colours, i remembered one of my old ideas marrying illustration with learning english. so i planned names of the rainbow colours and as many objects from the nature, or so.

i wanted special font, so i painted big letters myself, scanned them, converted the pictures into polygons and next to contour. i unified the repeated letters to some degree, which means i reduced their diversity to basically two variants. of  course, i coloured them as well. before i actually positioned them according to my plan, they looked as seen above. i left the original size for you to see it immediately. (not at all.)

in addition to being on my own, i had quite a trouble making a big grid and printing parts of it on A4 format. to be able to copy them on the wall, i cut and glued parts of the enlaged picture (the poster would consist of 32 pages in A4) in a collage. the traces of the pencil left by the carbon paper can show you that the work was not very easy.

all the preparations done, the moment came to mix the colours to match the ideal i got on screen. i am rather satisfied with the outcome, i must say, except in the case of violet which is the most difficult to get. of course i wanted a darker and more red hue, but did not succeed. so i went to a shop and bought the most approximate nuance. i managed somehow to persuade myself that it was the best possible solution.

the finalized painting is shown below. i had imagined different - straight lines of the rainbow proper, but in the process, this is what seemed better. i will leave to your judgement most of the details, but i must comment on the fact that i could not find seven different objects to represent every colour of the rainbow, so i sight with relief when the saving idea flashed in my mind. i'll make an inversion - leaving the colour out in a appropriate shape, i'll make blue the sky and indigo the sea. i am still not sure whether the idea fits in the concept and whether you will find it disturbing.

anyhow, looking the picture now, i saw i'll need to go downstairs with a paintbrush and white paint. no, i'll not whitewash the wall. i'll only finish the painting. you'll never now what i did, unless you come to see it.     

responsible parenting

well, i know. everyone missed me. and two of you actually pronounced a question about my absence. one can get stuck anytime, of course. i had three baptisms in a row and i was awfully busy. besides, i did not want to keep on talking about baptism. and so on...

this is what i needed to finish in a glance. a friend of my acquaintance, supposedly the top artist in our region, claims that the trend nowadays is just fontwork. as i understood, no illustration, nothing except text to make you think. as you see, i am not quite that modern, but maybe i helped establish the trend. :)

of course, i can not introduce this as a never-seen-before thing. i only say that i wanted the main font (starševstvo means parenting) needed to suggest a fun thing to do, and i really did not have time to search for anything fresh. this one was at hand and to me amusing enough. the same font is used to emphasize key educational words such as relationship, love, and education itself, as well as success that every person who will come is up to, plus a play on word with (for)giving (in). all other expressions made prominent will be translated in labels.

the (old fashioned) illustration is here... well... to demand viewer's activity, so you tell me why!