Art Collaboration | Colour Blending

For art, we are recreating the cover of the Gruffalo story. The Gruffalo is the text we have been using to visualise, infer and make connections. 

First, we were assigned to seperate parts of the picture in groups. We talked about an art technique with pastels which is called 'blending'. Blending uses multiple colours to create a type of shading that makes the picture look more detailed.

After that, the groups coloured inside the traced lines on the picture. There were rules and exceptions we had to follow such as: black pastel comes last because it is the darkest colour, use a paper towel to blend colours and use a cotton-bud to blend small areas of the picture.

For this task, we collaborated with other groups so that when all the art pieces were done, the end result of the ar picture would fit together neatly.

We enjoyed this art session and practicing the blending technique with pastels. The purpose of this activity is to collaborate with others and understand art methods.

LI: to collaborate and complete a group art-piece.

LI: to practice blending colours using pastels.