Friday, October 06, 2006

Surreal Activity!


This week St Marks primary school were investigating some interesting and familiar techniques invented by Surrealist artists to create some very bizarre creatures and scenes! The children practised 3 techniques invented by artists from the Surrealist movement:


Two 'automatic' drawing techniques
1 - PVA used as an adhesive for the layers of sand that were added.
2 - A random inked pattern duplicated to leave a symetrical design.
And Frottage (rubbing)
3 - Rubbing over textured surfaces creating basic shapes.



Resulting in: Dancing Poodle's, humming birds, bulls, dragons,seaguls, butterflies etc, etc...!





2 comments:

steve said...

Wow! These are great! Nice blog here!

Anonymous said...

Artists in the making! These pictures are fantastic!

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