Year 8 spent a lesson creating experimental shoe paintings using the end of paintbrushes and swatches of cardboard dipped into black acrylic as their method of mark-making.
Here is just a small selection of the mixed media self portraits produced by last years Year 7 in the Summer Term. The theme was 'Split Personality' and the pupils produced a portrait consisting of four different mediums (acrylic, pencil, fine-liner and collage). They also wrote in the background of two of the sections. The writing in pencil was that students' dislikes, whilst the writing in fine-liner was their loves.
This term Year 5 are studying the theme of 'Movement'. As part of this, the pupils spent a lesson exploring movement through experimental mark making. The first half of the lesson was spent creating their own paintbrushes from a range of natural and man-made materials. In the second half of the lesson the students painted with their new paintbrushes using ink. A wide variety of effects were created in this way. The drawings that the pupils created in this lesson will be incorporated into a larger final piece later in the term.
