Painting

Sketching our Portraits

This term we have been working with paint to create some self portraits for our writers' wall. We experimented with using white to lighten colours and faded these gradually out in circular shapes. We used these experimental pages as colourful frames for our writing on our writers' wall.


We experimented using the brush in lots of different ways. We used the side of the brush to dab paint so that when we mixed colours they didn't mix into one flat colour but had lots of different shades of the colour we used with white.

We looked at the hydrangeas blooming in the garden outside our classroom. We used the dabbing brush to make green backgrounds as leaves. Then we selected our colours for the hydrangeas.

We think they look so beautiful. This week we will be drawing harakeke (flax) seed pods. Some people in Room 2 have been rubbing them on the ground at lunchtime to learn more about them so we will cut some up and see what is inside.