Winter Art

Winter Art

Mixed Media: dye, print, rubbings

We mixed red, blue and yellow dye to create the colours we saw on our walk. When we mixed red with green (yellow and blue) we made a greyish brown colour. It was science magic.

We then chose three colours and ‘whooshed, schwumped and whirred’ them onto paper to create a background for our Winter Art. It was hard to whoosh because we wanted to make shapes but Miss Derhamy wanted us to move our brush like the wind. Once we understood we made beautiful winter patterns.

Once the dye was dry we rolled printing ink onto the leaves we collected on our winter walk and printed them onto our art. It was like stamping the leaves onto the paper.

The next day we collected leaves with bumpy stalks and veins. We bent the leaves to check they were not too dry and crumbly.

We then made leaf rubbings using crayons and black paper. We cut out the leaf rubbings, scrunched them up tightly, unfolded them gently and glued them onto our Winter Art.