Today it was 5A's turn to make a start on the Iron Woman Project.
Like 5G last week, we spent the first part of the morning finding different ways of making textures.
We started by exploring different ways to make a print...this one is from a piece of wood....but we also printed from material, lace, cardboard textured paper...
We also made rubbings from radiators, music stands, doorways and all sorts of different textures found all over the school.
Another group made beautiful drawings from plants, grasses, leaves and other plant life that you might find on a lonely marsh.
We discussed the animals that would inhabit the marsh and made experimental drawings of them from small plastic creatures....like drawing with the hand you wouldn't normally use.
The drawings were wonderfully wobbly and expessive.
We also did continuous line drawings where you are not allowed to take the pencil off the paper....
I think everyone really enjoyed drawing in a different way and it made them really concentrate!
Then we used the prints and rubbings to make big collaged drawings of the marsh scene where the Iron Woman emerged from the muddy water...
We discussed the marsh feeling lonely and bleak and a frightening place!
We thought about where the horizon should be in our illustartions - whether we wanted big skies or not.
5A made some really striking and slightly scary images! Well done everyone.
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