Art Class - Edgar Degas - Three

Today we had some messy fun...chalk pastels are really messy to work with...we had blue cheeks and blue elbows, and blue arms, and blue floors, and blue hair...

We started with a wild crazy colour wheel, to try our hand at blending pastels to achieve desired colours and to brush up on the colour theory that we have already learnt...

So each student had to make 12 areas on their pastel paper 

and then another shape in the center using black markers...

we started with positioning and colouring the primary colours red, yellow and blue, 

then the secondary colours, orange, green and purple, 

then the tertiary colours,which they had to make by blending... 

yellow-green, blue-green, blue-purple, purple-red, red-orange, orange-yellow...

The middle shapes were shaded in using white to create tints and

the center shape coloured in using black to create shades...

A really fun project...

Take a look at these awesome artworks...

We watched a clip on You Tube Degas and the dancers

the boys really enjoy this...

We then looked at Degas beautiful pastel work The Blue Dancers 1899 and tried our hand at our own Blue Dancers...The boys used chalk or soft pastels to create their artworks, we glued a few pieces of tulle onto the skirts for a 3D effect...

Take a look...

Well done boys - you are great!!!