Houses

Year 1 students painted the background of their A3 page with blue dye.  They then used water colour paints to cover pages from old books.  Once they were dried they drew their houses, trees and clouds onto the sheets and glued them onto the background.  Black vivid was used to outline the work.

Marbles

Year 5 students looked at marbles and saw different patterns within them.  They designed their own group of marbles making sure they were different sizes.  Circles were made onto cartridge paper and they used watercolour paints to give the glassy look.  They added white onto one side of the marble to show the light source.  Once all the marbles were painted we used black paper and drew lines to make it look like the corner of a room.  One side of the wall was coloured in with white pastel.  The students then attached their marbles overlapping some of them.  They used charcoal to add a shadow onto the back marble.

Owls

Year 3 students used watercolour pastels for their Owls.  Black ink was first applied and then the pastel. We cut them out and added other details to the background.  I framed them onto black paper and then selected 2 other colours.

Warm and cool grids

Year 5 children began this project by ruling up a grid 2 cm by 2 cm.  A New Zealand animal, bird or plant was chosen to add to the grid.
We used watercolour paints, using cool colours for either the background or the main object.  Children were able to produce different shades of a colour, depending on the amount of water they added.
To complete their work, they outlined in black pen.

Trees

Before watercolour paint or
detail was added

 The inspiration for these trees was taken from the lovely selection we have around our school.  
The Year 6 students sketched a variety of trees, looking carefully at how the branches overlapped.
Once they were happy with their sketch, they re drew the trunk outline onto phone book paper.  They found it quite difficult and for some, time consuming cutting these out.
Leaves were then practiced and added to the tree.  Students used watercolour paints to fill in the leaves.
Everything was detailed with black thin pens.

This is a simple but effective artwork.

Doodle art in CD case:

 Year 5 students looked at different examples of doodle art and practiced different types of lines and patterns. They used very fine black pens and water coloured paints to highlight certain areas.
We displayed these in different ways inside old CD cases.

Turtles:
After looking carefully at different lines and patterns, students sketched several turtles from different angles.  Once they had completed the turtle, they sectioned the shell and added different patterns into each area.  They first used pencil and completed the design in black pen.  Finally a lesson on water colours  then  small brushes were used to add the colour.
These were cut out and mounted on sugar paper.