I know! terrible alliteration. We have been mostly working on 20th century painters and art styles. We looked at Klee, talked about the variety of his styles, but concentrating on the more more blocky. I have always liked Klee, and have a poster of a north african scene in our dining room. We considered the blending of colours within the blocks, how there was a tonal impression in the picture, and then a few details making the whole image into a landscape rather than purely abstract. The children quite liked the blockiness being similar to minecraft.
We started with choosing the medium. we used djeco crayons that are similar enough to oil pastels but very easy to use. They are easy to blend. We used sketching paper. We had some fee paper to put our designs on and to use to practice belnding and then sketched out our blocks freehand with pencil.
Following that we gradually built up our pictures. Some going with bright and colourful, some going with contrasting blocking, and some quite idiosyncratic. I think mine is too picture representative, but I liked the one by TheB. We all got more proficient at blending and making different colours as we progressed, and some mixed colours weren’t quite what we had expected.
Here are all our pictures
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