Painting and Screen printing

In today’s episode the children enjoyed painting and preparing their stencils for screen-printing.

I learned something today: As discussed in my last painting Blog, I mentioned about some children found it hard to blend colours while painting their face; plus they found if difficult to not paint over their preliminary guidelines. Today most children mixed colours and started to blend colours without having blobs of colour in various places on the face. Having three colours to blend still remained a problem.
Next time, to help children learn to blend the colours without making mud colours, I will only have them use two colours. We will start with yellow and red by doing the mid tone, and then use the yellow as the light. After the painting has dried I will then introduce dry brushing and put in the shadows with blue. I think this will make the paint more controllable for the children.

The master designs of the screen-printing are all looking very individual artworks. It has been a challenge for the children to understand the concept of screen-printing. By using the example of stencils, showing the children how the cut out part is where the colours goes, has helped them to make their own paper stencils for the different colours they intend using on their artwork.

No photos today, I was allowing the children to experiment with their art.

Reflective comments from the children:

“I learnt that when you are painting a face and you make the lines curve it looks better.” Caleb

“I learnt how to paint dark to middle to light tones”. Jesse

“I learned there are shadows on our face and the face is curved”. Jada

“I learnt to draw a nose. I learnt by looking at Jessica nose and seeing that her nose doesn’t look like a pigs hoof. I looked at mine and I change it.” Louise

“I learnt how to draw a proper mouth. I learnt how to draw a mouth by looking gat my mouth in the mirror.” Jessica

“I learnt that blue and red and yellow are primary colours. I learned that red is a tone colour and blue is a shadow colour and yellow is a light colour. Grey and brown are earth colours.” Paul