P2 adventures

Scottish Portrait Gallery

Paintings, photos, glass(!) and sculptures – we found so many different mediums of portraits!

Robert Burns’ portrait and sculpture were a big hit and it was ‘so cool’ to see the portraits of kings and queens.

Ken Currie’s Unknown Man, 2019 Portrait of Professor Dame Sue Black and Three Oncologists intrigued the pupils and we had a discussion around their red eyes and ghostly like appearances.

We noticed how a lot of the people were not smiling in the paintings and how it could be because it would take such a long time to paint, that their faces would hurt by the end!

We also admired the frames in real life, having worked from photographs to make our own. We spotted some repeating patterns that looked a bit like… pasta, pea, pea, pea, pea. Maybe try mixing up dinner time and frame your food!

Portrait photo shoot

Inspired by a visit to the Scottish Portrait Gallery, we experimented with costumes, facial expression and body position when being photographed. Here is just a snippet, before we choose one to go inside our frames…!

British Science Week

Timing helicopters falling, helping preserve apples last for a long amount of time and timing how long we can dunk biscuits… we had a great time!

Edinburgh Science Festival

We were lucky to get early access to the ESF at the City Art Centre. We had lots of fun at Energy Makers, Little Sparks and Imagination Playground!