Image making workshops at Newark Hill Primary
5.3.14
A two week break since my last visit to NHPS, so the priority with today’s session was to pick up momentum again. Not exactly a ‘Mess Around’ but definitely a constructive one in which invention and investigation played a major part.
As with any medium I’d always encourage mark making exercises first in order to examine its capabilities and today the group continued working with chalk pastel, this time however employed as a painting medium. The introduction of water created new opportunities and alternatives which contrasted with effects explored previously when using the medium dry.
It was applied dry to wet paper, and wet on dry paper. Pastel as a powder, as a solution, drizzled and spattered, applied with brushes as well as with a damp paper towel, and using a small container of water as a bath, marbling effects were created. A day of experiment, of trial and error, but much was learned – and it was fun too!
Newark Hill Primary Academy, Eastfield Rd, Peterborough PE1 4RE
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