"Continuos Line" Year 4

Drawn using a continuous line in black, these portraits look fantastic! Draw, colour, cut and paste onto coloured background. Clear modelling is the key..also setting a time frame so students have to draw quickly!

Draw and Reduce

Particularly with my younger students I find photocopying and reducing their drawings to half or quarter size serves many purposes. Firstly the drawings appear more detailed and this process highlights the expressive quality of the lines. Secondly, the artwork can be displayed in a communal space and doesn't take up as much room! Thirdly, students can take home the originals whilst still allowing their drawings to be enjoyed by the school community. Copies on coloured paper look great too. Try it!!!!

Inspired by "Where The Wild Things Are" Kindergarten drew their own wild things. They outlined in black marker and I copied their drawings onto coloured paper reducing them in size. I then cut and pasted them onto a communal artwork. The children thought it looked great!

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Wonderful Watercolour

Watercolour paints seem to go on...and on...and....on. Easy for the students to set up/clean up themselves. With my Yr 3 - 6 students I teach them a range of interesting watercolour techniques and encourage using a number of these in their chosen artwork.
Try wet-in-wet to have colours mix naturally together on the paper.
Dry-on-dry for fine details.
Paint sky colours and remove paint with ball of tissue to give a natural cloud effect.
Paint quickly with wet colour, sprinkle salt and let the reaction begin! Creates a really interesting speckled effect.
Dab wet paint with scrunched and flattened alfoil to create an interesting texture.

"Paintings with no name"

I never discard paintings with no name. If unable to find the owner, I simply cut these up into usable collage pieces. Great to use to create wonderful Eric Carle inspired artworks with my younger students. Link your lesson to his wonderful books and their vibrant and interesting illustrations. Older students can collage pieces onto a coloured background and print images onto this. What also is very effective is painting a gum tree onto this background in ink.

"Aboriginal Sand Designs"

Collect natural wool, wood shavings, raffia, feathers, recycled cardboard/paper offcuts in natural colours. Design circle patterns inspired by Aboriginal sand art onto orange/red/yellow coloured card. Students work collaboratively to collage mixed media using PVA glue. Gorgeous outcome! Inexpensive if you do a good hunt around your room for materials :)