I have been working as a Visual Arts relief teacher at a Secondary school for the last four weeks and was invited to write a project for a Year 7 extension class. I decided to teach the kids about German Expressionism, focusing particularly on high contrast woodcuts. I got the kids to first trace photographs of dogs with pencil and then apply expressive mark making techniques with their charcoal. I think the results are really striking!
They are now creating two designs based on photographs of their own pets in preparation for creating a lino-cut. They will have to choose the design that they think is most effective in capturing the essence of Expressionism.
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