We created some autumn trees earlier this term. We began by collecting autumn leaves from outside. We drew three of our own, based on the ones we had collected. We coloured them with thick crayon, using a selection of autumn colours. Once they were coloured we screwed them up and unfolded them. We had to do this about 20 times, until the paper was soft like material and there were cracks in the crayon.
Once they were soft we dyed them with brown, yellow, orange or red dye. The dye filled in all of the cracks we had made as we screwed up the leaves. This process is called 'Batik'.
While our leaves were drying we painted an A3 cartridge paper bright green. We had a lot of fun experimenting with our paint brush, using it in a variety of ways to create texture.
When our green backgrounds had dried we used brown, yellow, white and black paint to create bare autumn trees. We tried to use our paint brush in a variety of ways again to experiment with texture.
Once our trees had dried we re-visited them one last time. This time we used pastel and crayon to add final details to both our tree and our background.
The very last thing we did to complete our trees was to cut out our autumn leaves and stick them on to the base of our tree. They were a lot of fun, even though they did take a very long time.
We also had a lot of fun making pencil sketches in art. Mrs O took a head and shoulders photo of each us. She printed the photo in black and white on a piece of A4 paper. Then she cut half or our face off and we had to use pencils to sketch in the missing side. It was pretty tricky to make our face balance so that they looked like us, but they were a lot of fun to do.
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