Year 4/5's Term one Guitar Theme Developments

These focused still life compositions utilised ink and a mixture of dye wash and water colour, controlled colour running. Student were required to focus in upon a guitar to build an interesting composition.

 
Hot Red Spiky Blue         By Simone 

During this project we focused on:

• doing a variety of quick thumb nail composition sketches
  before working on a large sketch,
• putting the parts and different views together to build a
  single machine or composition,
• using the whole page or filling the page,
• looking at and for the big shapes, being bold,
• later focusing on detail,
• really looking at the subject,
• interpreting what they see,
• and taking risks -not avoiding tricky parts,
• choosing colours and practicing colour blends and runs,
• learning to wet areas then drip in and run a colour,
• Learning to run two colours together,
• outlining in ink to bring the lines back out - I find biro sufficient,
  this is done after all the dyeing so that ink does not run and lines remain crisp.

    
             Rainbow Crossing            By Pauline

Students then used their poetry and computer publishing skills to give their pictures interesting three word titles. Their instructions for this was to use three word that represents a colour, object and a feeling.

Swirly Cove By Talia 

The Shaky Glass Leg        By Alana

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