I don’t get asked to draw outside very often. Last weekend was different. I was working at the Kent County Show. I didn’t know what to expect before I arrived, only that I’d be working on blackboards and whiteboards. I imagined them to be separate, but as you can see from the picture they were an interesting combination of the two. I soon found out that I was drawing in the Skanska show garden. The garden was designed by Learning through Landscapes and built by Skanska RM and designed to encourage children to learn outside. There were storytellers and people making a clay oven and a very popular set of scales which used bricks to calculate weight. I was there to encourage children to draw on the blackboard. I really love the Sonic the Hedgehog, seen in the photo. I also listened to the storytellers and transcribed some of their tales into pictures. I really liked it when the children picked up on what I was doing and finished off some of the stories themselves. The Garden won ‘Top Gold’ at the show. Hurrah!

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