Saturday, 21 September 2013

International Day of Peace

International Day of Peace was yesterday, September 21st. Here's a picture of the doves we decorated.

In addition, our first art project is done, and looks fantastic! We began by stamping black rings on our paper using cups and paint and being careful to overlap several of them. Then, we used oil pastels to colour each entire circle a different primary colour and watched the secondary colours appear where the circles overlapped. Finally, we decorated the remaining space with smaller colourful circles created by dipping corks in paint and stamping them around our page.
I think that everything looks fantastic in a frame, so every time that we complete a flat art project I will select 2 pieces to feature in our Artist of the Month frames. By the end of the year, everyone will get a turn having their work framed. Here are our first two: