"I am silently correcting your grammar" is this week's quote from Sir Tim (Holtz) that we have to work with alongside Aimeslee's theme for the month at Art Journal Journey - Flowers. That and figures from Dylusions range by Dyan Reaveley completes the parameters we have to work with.
I was very lucky in that I had not got anything prepared but whilst leafing through a National Trust magazine I saw an article on Sissingham Gardens, Kent. A full page and a half page of a floral garden. Perfect for the background to my page. So with a bit of trimming and putting together the two pages made a full one which was perfect for Aimeslee's theme. That solved the problem of a background.
I chose to use two tiny figures from the Dylusion range and I decided to leave them without colour. The background was so colourful that I felt it would have made them fade into it had I added colour.
"The story is simple. It's a week since Billy and Sam were at the Gardens and Sam had been asked on his return to school to write all about what he had done over the weekend. Sam was, of course, excited about his morning out with his older brother and so he had written about that in great detail.
Although quite a bright young man for his age Sam had a failing, his grammar was not good. He often got his tenses muddled and as for 'split infinity', well!
It was later in the week that two of his teachers were walking in the same Gardens and Sam came up in conversation. Both agreed what a lovely young man he was and how well he was doing in school. In fact they were discussing whether or not he should win the math prize that year for brightest young student.
Miss Bennett was unaware of his prowess in English but was soon put right by Miss Heslop who told her she had had to tell him "I am silently correcting your grammar" only a few days ago. Yes, he definitely deserved the math prize, but he was not really a contender for the English one."
