This week we looked at a range of old photos. We joined a number of A1 pieces of paper on the wall and all chose a spot to draw an image from the photos. After 10 minutes the students had to change places and take over someone else's drawing. This change over happened a few times before the drawing was complete.
The reason for working on other peoples drawings was to take the idea of ownership of one image and develop the idea of ownership for the whole art work. After the first change over the students became comfortable with working on many images. Initially they were precious about the image they started, thinking "they will stuff it up, they don't know what I am doing."
In the end they were all looking and improving parts of the artwork.
They uses black crayon, starting by using whisper lines (very light lines). Then when the paper was full of images they went over the lines with shouting lines (very heavy lines). White crayon was used to blank in areas they wanted to be white.
We discussed the colour of old photos and decided to colour the art work with a range of brown tones in dye.
The students were amazed at how much they completed in one day.
Over hearing a conversation between two students, "Wow, I didn't know I could draw like that."
The art work continues...
1 comment:
I really like the idea of kids joining together to make one work of art. The detail in these pictures is really nice. well done guys! From Mr Giles
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