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| Senior IEC student artwork |
During my lovely 2 hour block with the senior Introductory English Centre class each Wednesday, we complete an art activity usually related to something they are studying in class. In term 1 they were learning about classic fairytales so we made these dragons. There are loads of versions of these on art blogs and Pinterest, but I decided to go for an oil pastel version with a focus on using light and shadow.
Lesson Materials:
Pictures of dragon eyes off Google and samples of dragon eye artworks using different art media
Oil pastels
lead pencils
trimmed A3 white art paper
Lesson Steps:
1. We looked at images of dragon eyes and artworks. We talked about the shapes, colours and textures.
2. The students followed along with a lead pencil, drawing as I did each part of the eye step-by-step. I gave many opportunities for the students to make theirs unique by suggesting things like: You may want to add some horns like this here, you may want to make these scales small like this or larger like this... You may want to change the shape of the pupil like this or this...
3. Next I demonstrated how to fill the drawings in with oil pastel thickly and with no white gapes. We then re-looked at the colour wheel and talked about how to use tints, shades and different colours to show light and shadow, and to create a more realistic dragon eye.
I wish I could show them all, but unfortunately only 2 were completed before coronavirus sent us all home and left the rest unfinished back at school! Such a shame, as they were looking incredible!
Here is the one other completed one:
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