For the last two lessons we have been looking at Japanese and Chinese scrolls. I have been collecting lots of sticks from my back garden in preparation for this project. We began by painting large pieces of paper with mixes of pink, yellow and white. Some students deliberately aimed to emulate a bright sunset in their backgrounds while others added lots of white for a more subdued effect. Once dry, I showed the kids how to draw branches with black ink, starting thick at the bottom corner and gradually getting thinner. We then applied the cherry blossoms by dabbing small areas of bubble wrap in pink, red and white paint and printing over the top of the thinner branches to create a varied effect.
While the paint dried the kids learnt how to draw realistic and cartoon pandas and prepared the room for a mini-exhibition. We then wrapped the ends of the scrolls around the sticks at the top and tied string to each end. I taught the students about the different roles involved in setting up an exhibition and they got very excited about being little curators!
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