SATURDAY MORNING CLASSES

« sae SATURDAY MORNING Junior Art classes aim to give inspiration and
instruction to groups of school-age children. From the ages of eight
to sixteen they come to study not by rote or formula but by creating
“free drawings and the interest and purposefulness with which the child-
ren themselves set about the work is something that all can comprehend.”
That is the key of The Junior Art Classes. . . interest and purposefulness.

The following “overheard in the corridor” gives a boy’s reaction.

There are one hundred and eight of us since that new girl came.
You know, the one with the long hair and the pig-tail. Wonder why she
joined when it is so near to the end of the term? But then, they have
been joining all along. Remember at the first of the year there were only
sixty of us.

I’m in the boy’s class. We've been doing some good drawing this
year. Yeah, from all kinds of objects and heads and things and some
things in colour, water colour, crayon and poster paint and boy did we
do some swell linos. Hey, you! Sure I know that kid.

Say, what’s something your size doing down here? Drawing?
Let’s see. Gee, swell. Sure does beat everything the way little kids can
draw these days. Do you always illustrate stories? Oh, I see. Kinda
mix thing ups a bit. Not a bad notion. Wish Ma had let me come when
I was small.

Say, there’s the kid sister. Hi, sis! What you do today? Pretty

good, too. A little bit delicate but then what can you expect from a
girl. Your class does just like ours, only not so good. Ouch! Let go
my hair.

Here’s your pal coming, Sis. She’s taking modelling, isn’t she?
Does all kinds of clay animals and things and stuff. Guess it must be fun.
The teacher said we could do some of that next week. Have a new
teacher, haven’t they?

What’s in that room over there? Say, here’s one spot I haven’t
been in this burg. Jiggers, that big teacher again. Huh, some of them
are drawing just like us, but look — it’s a poster. No, it isn’t — it’s a
design. Say, what do you people do here? Draw flowers with a brush,
make panels, now you’re making puppets and backgrounds. Pretty
swish. Okay, Sis. I’m coming.

You know Sis, I like drawing. Watch me sketch that egg in the
next seat. Do you always have to do fashion drawings?

Say, I wonder what we get for dinner? Saturday is swell.

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