Growing things...

Here are some of the drawings and paintings made by Mrs Ripley's Year 3 class, as part of their project on plants and growing things.

I worked with the class a few weeks ago to make some observational drawings and paintings of plants. I brought in quite a few plants from my garden, and we used some plants from the school grounds too - especailly ivy and cow parsley.

First of all we we looked at the shapes of the plants. Not all leaves are the same, and I asked the year 3 pupils to look carefully at the shape of the different leaves and how the leaves join the stem.

In the afternoon we used acrylic paints to paint pictures of the plants in the classroom. I asked the class to look closely at the different colours they could see. It's surprising how many different shades of green there are!
At the end of the day we did a colour-mixing quiz and we mixed secondary colours (orange, purple and green) using only the primary colours (red, yellow and blue).
Do you know what colours to mix to make orange? What about purple or green?

Louise (visual artist)