Term 3 session 3

Drawing with a picture plane produced great landscape sketches. Taping the viewfinder, with clear plastic (over head projector transparencies) attached, to the window of the classroom the children draw the scenery outside with whiteboard marker. We have a lovely view of the playing field and trees.
The children then prepared graphite paper (using a graphite pencil lightly rub pencil all over white page as smoothly as possible, then smudge with tissue paper. This gives the paper a grey cover that can be made darker or rubbed off the show light areas). Using the grid they transferred the image from the picture plane onto the graphite paper.
To add to the details they applied darker areas and rubbed off the light areas. The sketches showed perspective and depth. After the sketches were completed the children looked at the scene again and critiqued their composition. Next time we will look at the line of thirds to get more balance between land and sky.

In keeping with the drawing theme and looking at line and shape the class has split into four groups and have begun drawing collaborative murals.
The drawing are on large pieces of cardboard pinned to the wall. Each group selected an artist they liked (Vincent van Gogh, Silvia Siddell and Leonardo da Vinci) They copy pictures of paintings and drawings done by the artist. The murals will be like a collage of the images. Each child starts a drawing, after about 10 minutes of drawing they swap with someone else and continue to draw. They swap many times so each child works on most of the drawings on the mural. This process makes a true collaborative artwork. The children are not precious about their particular drawing and work together to create the overall composition. A work in progress...