Art Collaboration | The Gruffalo

For art, we drew the cover of The Gruffalo story as a class. We learnt new skills during the few weeks we did this. 

First, we got allocated to a peice of paper to draw. The first technique we got taught was the blending. The blending technique is to smudge colours together to get a shade or texture. We used pastels to colour in. We used a paper towel to blend in the big parts and cotton tips to blend the small crevasse.

After that, we started to colour in the lines and thought about the colours, details and technique. The second technique we learnt was how to get the light grass colour. To do this, we went in with white and covered the area. Then we got green and coloured in on top of the white. We then got white again and coloured that over the green to blend the colours and get the light green.

The last skill we learnt was how to make the colour of the path. The path was quite difficult to blend. The colours we used were, gold, peach and yellow. We went in with the peach colour and covered the area with it. Then we used yellow and a bit of gold to get the colour. 

I think that this activity was challenging and I found it difficult to make the path. I would like to improve on my blending techniques.

LI: To collaborate as a group and learn new techniques to create art.