Oil pastel animals with my 9-13 class

After visiting the exhibition "No Second Prize" (mentioned in previous post), I got the kids to create posters with environmental messages. I wanted to incorporate printmaking methods so first instructed the students to colour a page with different oil pastel colours. We then covered the pages in black paint and used cotton bud sticks and skewers to draw animals (based on print-outs) into the black paint. Before going to the gallery, we covered a page each in watercolour marks and set them aside to dry. After finishing our oil pastel works we cut out letters from the watercolour pages to spell out messages such as "Save the Red Panda" and "Care for Animals."