We have been learning about scale in portraiture by using super hero masks. Learners had to draw themselves as "their own" superhero. They added strips of newspaper at the bottom of their pages to create buildings and some dots of glitter glue became twinkly lights.
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We are heading into the groovy 1970's this week with tie dye. Each child was asked to bring in a white t-shirt.
Preparing the materials: I used acrylic paint for this (which is not ideal, but we were unable to get fabric dye from our store room). Add 50ml acrylic paint to 500ml water. Place this into medium size buckets. I used red, yellow, blue and green. I found that this amount worked well for a class of 22 pupils. Each child rolled, folded and twisted their own shirts. I used black plastic hair Ties instead of string. Dipping: These are young children, so a certain level of help is needed. I dipped the t-shirts into the paint (pupils chose their colours). The children squeezed out the excess paint after each dip. they placed their shirts on the drying rack. 2 days later, unwrap the shirts, and leave to dry outside. TIP: Wear plastic gloves. It gets messy!! This lesson pupils designed stylish slippers from paper. Good enough to be sold in stores! Following on from this design challenge, pupils were tasked with painting t-shirts with different designs.
We are making colorful robots this week. The learners used basic shapes to create their robots. They then coloured them in with crayon and move to the painting station to create a rainbow background.
Using Keith Haring as our starting point of inspiration, pupils drew stick men in extreme poses. They then drew outlines around their figures. Using 2 colours to paint and then black to make patterns and outline the figure. Pupils worked in groups of 3 and 4 to complete the artwork.
STEP 1: Create an alien world for your alien home. STEP 2: Design your alien using shapes. STEP 3: Make your final alien using oil pastels on black paper.
I always love a life-size project. This time we are making Super hero cotumes. Each child got an A1 piece of paper. I sketched out the basic body for each child (you could have them lie on the paper and trace around one another). Then they deisgned their super hero (keeping in mind the symbols of their powers). They drew their designs in crayon and then painted using tempera paints.
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