Visual Arts Planning: Stone Age
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A primary school teacher asks:
“Our topic is the Stone Age. So far we have created a stony background using scrumpled up brown paper and pastels and paint. I was considering using charcoal to draw animal outlines on this. We have also started observational mark making and shading of stones. The group are year 3 and we have another 7 weeks or so of the Stone Age part of the topic. Would love a focus for learning and to create exciting projects for the children”
The Stone Age provides lots of opportunities to create a really exciting, dynamic exploration of drawing materials such as charcoal, and to go back to the basics of mark-making. The following resources should help this exploration.
Please feel free to add links to other resources, or share your experiences and ideas, via the comments box below.
Early Drawing Materials and Processes
Drawing Like a Caveman
Discovering Charcoal: Warm Up Exercise
Turning Paper into Fur!
Taking Drawing further...
Primal Painting
Textiles and Installation Art Inspired by Stones!


Ruth
January 21, 2015 @ 9:34 pm
sand paper made a great surface to make cave paintings on; pastels and charcoal.