The Mill On Coppermill Lane

🌈 Help us create a rainbow for our window at The Mill! 🌈
We want to fill our front window with a rainbow made with colourful hands.
Everyone can take part, here’s how:
... 1. Draw round your hand on a piece of paper
2. Cut it out
3. Decorate it with one of the colours of the rainbow
4. Send it to us. You can:
a) Put it through our letterbox
b) Post it to us at: Rainbow Hands The Mill 7-11 Coppermill Lane London E17 7HA
c) Send us digital art work to comms@TheMillE17.org – digital art must be in a hand shape, and suitable to be printed at A4 size.
We will add your hand prints to our window display to make a rainbow!
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🌈 Help us create a rainbow for our window at The Mill! 🌈
We want to fill our front window with a rainbow made with colourful hands.
Everyone can take part, here’s how:
... 1. Draw round your hand on a piece of paper
2. Cut it out
3. Decorate it with one of the colours of the rainbow 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣
4. Send it to us. You can:
a) Put it through our letterbox
b) Post it to us at: Rainbow Hands The Mill 7-11 Coppermill Lane London E17 7HA
c) Send us digital art work to comms@TheMillE17.org – digital art must be in a hand shape, and suitable to be printed at A4 size.
🌈 We will add your decorated hand prints to our window display to make a rainbow! 🌈
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Here's this week's Sunday Get Drawing prompts and tips from David for #TheMillOnline
1. Find a small mirror and put an object in front of it, and draw both the object and its reflection. 2. Cutlery - knives, forks, spoons, a cork screw if you have one. Arrange them carelessly…. 3 A pair of glasses or sunglasses.
... This week, why not try drawing in a medium you rarely use, just to make things a little more difficult for yourself... Happy drawing!
And don't forget to share your results!
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Making candied orange peel for hot cross buns and mending holes in my children’s clothes have been some of the activities I’ve got around to during lockdown. What projects have you completed in lockdown and what are you planning to work on? #TheMillOnline

There's some fantastic street art in Walthamstow, many due to projects by Wood Street Walls and St James Street Big Local We're really lucky to have ATM Wetlands Birds mural opposite The Mill. What are your favourite local street art and murals? #TheMillOnline

3rd activity: POTATO PRINTS! We're taking our Kid's Art Club online, and would love to see you all get involved, get making and sharing your creations with #TheMillOnline

Many people have started to use video calling to keep in touch. Learn My Way have put together a simple introduction course on how to do video calls, and the different options there are. Pass it on to anyone you know who might find it useful!
Have you got any video call tips to share? #TheMillOnline
https://www.learnmyway.com/courses/video- calling

Our cucumber seedling has shot up. Have any of your seedlings popped up? #TheMillOnline

Here are today's drawing prompts for #TheMillOnline, with a few tips for David from our Get Drawing group:
1. some vegetables, some whole, some cut in half. 2. A plate of half eaten food . 3. An opened tin of paint and a paint brush.
... Remember to start by lightly drawing the main shapes before you begin to work on details. Its like writing a play: you have to start with the plot - a rough outline of everything that is going to happen, before you can write the dialogue - which is the details and shading in your drawing.
Don't forget to share your results!
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Meet Mills. Mills belongs to Janet, one of our reception volunteers. He’s enjoying having Janet in the house all the time during lockdown. What does your pet think of lockdown? Please share with us your sweet or humorous photos and/or your pets’ opinion. #TheMillOnline

Tash went in to The Mill to collect the post and found Mr Fox has moved in since we've been closed!

Show us your knitting! The famous Mill Knitters usually meet on Friday mornings, but at the moment they're sticking to phone calls and WhatsApp. In their honour, today's #TheMillOnline is all about knitting. Do you knit? What are you working on? Have you bought anything from the Mill Knitters? Or just share with us your favourite snuggly woolly jumper!

2nd activity: ORIGAMI! We're taking our Kid's Art Club online, and would love to see you all get involved, get making and sharing your creations with #TheMillOnline

Today is April Fool's Day, so share your best jokes! The people of Walthamstow told us dozens of their favourite jokes for our The Joke's On Us exhibition last year, can you make us laugh today? #TheMillOnline #TheJokesOnUs
Jokes on Us video by Laura Martinez Photography

What are you reading? For today's #TheMillOnline we're talking books.What good books have you read recently, have you lost yourself in a a gripping page-turner? Let us know!

We're all adjusting to being at home, trying to balancing families and work and generally trying to keep everything together. We liked this article by Gem Turner with some good tips on how to adjust to staying at home and social distancing.
There's lots of advice around about coping with the current situation. Have you got any ideas, or information you've seen, that's helped you? Why not share today for #TheMillOnline

Sunday Drawing at the Mill: Until we can get back to meeting face to face for our Sunday Get Drawing group. David will be sharing three suggestions each week for things you can find at home that would make good subjects for a drawing.
This week try one of these :
1 Tooth brushes, tooth paste and a water glass. ... 2 Cakes and biscuits. 3 Some kitchen tools.
Work in a sketch book if you have one, but you can draw perfectly well on plain printer paper, too. Most important, unless your drawing is rather small, find something to use as a drawing board, -like a tray, or a large book, so you can make your drawing at the best angle ( which should be about 45 degrees). Try a bit of colour, too - just adding one colour, with a coloured pencil, can give your drawing a little more impact. #TheMillOnline
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