(For anyone interested, notes on the teaching approaches that helped children towards these outcomes are on the COMMENTARY PAGES of this blog.)
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Sleepers - 2
As a continuation of this work, some children created a second piece using a limited colour palette of oil pastels. They worked from their original drawings, but did not try to replicated them exactly. Rather they focused on simplifying what they saw as the main shapes in their composition. This moved some of the finished pictures towards more abstract images and brought them nearer to the mood and feel of the Henry Moore drawings, without actually copying them or losing any of the children’s individual expression.