Beautiful Butterflies

Year 2 have been developing their blending techniques with oil pastels. Oil pastels can be blended together to create a soft, smooth painted effect. 

Here are oil pastels that are not blended:

Here are oil pastels that have been blended (pressing the lightest colour on top):

Year 2 did these practice sheets first, which we cut out and framed on black card. 

 Year 2 have since used the oil pastels to create beautiful Monarch Butterflies. They blended yellow and orange together to create bright wings and combined white, light blue and dark blue to make a vibrant background. Finally the black edges were added and the result is wonderful! Well done Year 2!

The original idea for this lesson was from a fantastic website called Art For Kids Hub which has brilliant tutorials and worksheets! Check it out!

Bees

 Lesson 1

Year 1 discussed tessellating patterns and looked at the tessellating hexagonal design inside honeycomb.
We draw our own honeycomb by tracing around hexagons with a yellow pastel. It was a bit tricky making our own tessellating patterns but I thought Year 1 did extremely well and were very resilient!
After this step, we painted each hexagon using watercolour paints.

Lesson 2

Year 1 students each had a turn doing printmaking. I had carefully carved a bee out of lino, which Year 1 students rolled black paint onto with rollers, then pressed the lino on to their honeycomb paintings.
The result is fantastic! Well done Year 1!