Pencil Bird Drawings

Some lovely bird tonal pencil drawings by year 7s...

Ink Bird Drawings

Here are some ink bird drawings created by year 7s.  I really, really love drawing with ink as I love the irregular lines and splodges!  I think these are lovely little drawings, and in particular the ones that are not like the original images! 

Some of these drawings were later developed into collagraph prints, which you can see here.

Some New Bird Collagraphs

Here are a selection of recent year 7s bird collagraphs.  I've included some examples of hand colouring that they did on top of extra prints, which I think are just lovely.  I did this project once before but this time I think the results are much better (see photos here).  I got the students to trace around individual shapes on their drawings and then they pieced the different textures together bit by bit.

The students used drawings of their own to develop into their collagraph.  They used a variety of different textured surfaces to create their collagraph plate including anaglypta wallpaper (brilliant for collagraphs), sandpaper, lentils, pasta, leaves, string, plastic mesh, cling film, tinfoil...anything that we could find that had a texture!  I got the students to bring in textured 'stuff' from home and they brought in all sorts of wierd and wonderful things to use.  Once they had finished their collagraph plates they covered these with shellac and left to dry over night.

I had sourced some old samples of anaglypta wallpaper from local wallpaper shops, who sold me sample books of the stuff for $40 per book.  Apparently anaglypta wallpaper is expensive in Australia, which was a bit of a shock to me as it is really quite cheap back in the UK.  Infact, when I did this project before I got free samples from B Q!  It took me a while to find where I could get the wallpaper and most people didn't have a clue what I was talking about!

Clay Fish

Here are some gorgeous examples of year 7 clay work.  This semester the year 7s made fish with a pinch pot body as a starter.  They had created 4 designs and had done some drawing and internet research prior to the making stage.  They then went onto texturize the body, add mouths, lips, eyes, fins and tails.  I just love that they have all come out differently!  This was the first time that I had worked with glazes ever, so I was very excited to see the results.  The white and black eyes were under glazes which had gloss added ontop before firing for the final time.

  woops, a little breakages which was easily fixed with some glue...