Connecting with our local Community — “Richmond Barracks”
Monday, January 8th, 2018
School : Goldenbridge
Class: 6th
Teacher : Ms. O’Donnell
We decided it would be a good idea to try and connect with our locality and focus on a building very close to the school . The barracks is situated directly opposite the school and the children pass it every day. We were very kindly given permission to visit the building . we started off by making preliminary sketches of what was around us.
The children were amazing!!!! so focused and eager to draw and draw and draw…..
After our successful afternoon of sketching, we arranged to return the following week and have an art session inside the building. We decided that we would do some collaborative art works. We divided the children into three groups and projected photographs of different views of the Barracks on to large sheets of brown paper. The children worked in groups to transfer the images to paper.
And this is where the children came into their own. In their individual groups they worked out colour combinations for their paintings. rather than use brushes, I gave the children heavy card cut into different widths.
Using the card they applied the paint, building up layers of texture and colour.
The results!!!!
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