Blended Butterflies!
The Year 3 classes have been exploring blending techniques when using oil pastels and water colour paints. They imagined they were outside looking for butterflies. They chose coloured paper to represent their background of blue (sky) or green(ground/plant).
Using multiple colours or green, yellow and blue they drew leaf shapes. The lightest colour was used to blend the colours together. This became the middle ground with some of their leaves overlapping.
They explored the effects of water colour paints and how it flowed and ran over the paper with less control compared to acrylic paint. They also held their paint brushes at the end, adding to the ‘less control’ effects.
They created butterflies out of the blended water colour papers they had made by folding the paper in half and drawing half a butterfly body and one wing starting from the folded side. This was cut out carefully keeping it folded so when it was opened up it made one whole butterfly. They added symmetrical line and shape patterns to each of the wings. After folding the wings up, they glued the centre body part and arranged them on their backgrounds.
