This
week's lesson was a good one for a few reasons.
Year 3: City of Fratsia, sketching, oil pastel and wash.
One: they learnt something new. Always good. Today was perspective and 3D work.
Two: they practised other sketching skills.
Three: they needed to delve into their imaginations to start with.
Four: it also required a bit of 'drawing what you see' whilst in that imagination. Always a tricky one, especially with the younger ones who have this ability to transpose any object regardless of what angle they view it from, to front on and draw it thus.
It was the lovely
and mystical city of Fratsia that was the class topic and we just followed it
in art but creating our own cities (imagination) of Fratsia. We read the book, 'Sanji and The Baker'
(by Robin Tzannes and Korky Paul) and
studied the city drawings and perspective (new word). We loved how the
buildings towered off to the side and rose up the hill. We also loved the
colour and medium that Paul had used. We thought about what we
would see if we looked straight at a house? What would we see if we were
sitting down on a seat in the street looking to the house to our right?
(Observational drawing)
We worked with our basic sketching skills to plan our city and think about how the buildings we have created from our imagination would look like from an angle. This was a challenge for most of them. But once they saw what they were looking at and applied it to theirs, it flowed and clicked :-) We then worked with oil pastels and built up this beautiful city like Korky Paul did. Some chalk pastels slipped into the oil pastel box inadvertently so that became a lesson in itself as they were finding out the difference between chalks and oils, in feel, effect, the residue it makes. This was great fun, coming up with adjectives to tell the difference.
I encouraged them to use the oil pastels as we were finishing up with a wash of the colour of their choice (out of red, orange or blue). So they learned they can end with a wash, not just begin with one. I wanted them to see what happens when watery paint touches wax or oil. Those that used chalk in places had a lesson too. they predicted and observed what happened when they ran their final wash over. It did create an awesome sandstormy effect for some! Lovely! I download some of their pics soonish.
In hindsight, I would probably work on laying down more prep work for perspective and focus on observational drawing for a little while...outside of the classroom, drawing the school buildings from different angles. This could be brought in as a follow-up in perspective in year 4.
Year 3: City of Fratsia, sketching, oil pastel and wash.
One: they learnt something new. Always good. Today was perspective and 3D work.
Two: they practised other sketching skills.
Three: they needed to delve into their imaginations to start with.
Four: it also required a bit of 'drawing what you see' whilst in that imagination. Always a tricky one, especially with the younger ones who have this ability to transpose any object regardless of what angle they view it from, to front on and draw it thus.
It was the lovely
and mystical city of Fratsia that was the class topic and we just followed it
in art but creating our own cities (imagination) of Fratsia. We read the book, 'Sanji and The Baker'
(by Robin Tzannes and Korky Paul) and
studied the city drawings and perspective (new word). We loved how the
buildings towered off to the side and rose up the hill. We also loved the
colour and medium that Paul had used. We thought about what we
would see if we looked straight at a house? What would we see if we were
sitting down on a seat in the street looking to the house to our right?
(Observational drawing)
We worked with our basic sketching skills to plan our city and think about how the buildings we have created from our imagination would look like from an angle. This was a challenge for most of them. But once they saw what they were looking at and applied it to theirs, it flowed and clicked :-) We then worked with oil pastels and built up this beautiful city like Korky Paul did. Some chalk pastels slipped into the oil pastel box inadvertently so that became a lesson in itself as they were finding out the difference between chalks and oils, in feel, effect, the residue it makes. This was great fun, coming up with adjectives to tell the difference.
I encouraged them to use the oil pastels as we were finishing up with a wash of the colour of their choice (out of red, orange or blue). So they learned they can end with a wash, not just begin with one. I wanted them to see what happens when watery paint touches wax or oil. Those that used chalk in places had a lesson too. they predicted and observed what happened when they ran their final wash over. It did create an awesome sandstormy effect for some! Lovely! I download some of their pics soonish.
In hindsight, I would probably work on laying down more prep work for perspective and focus on observational drawing for a little while...outside of the classroom, drawing the school buildings from different angles. This could be brought in as a follow-up in perspective in year 4.
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