Drawing from observation invites children to look closely at things and encourages them to make more detailed drawings. In today’s group the feature that was most prominent for the children were the Morepork’s eyes.
As time passed we offered children opportunities to revisit their original work and this time presented coloured images of moreporks along with paint.
Paint can enhance children’s art by bringing a new level of detail and texture to their work.
We view our role as teachers to be co-explorers, investigators and provokers. After observing that a small group had developed a repertoire for drawing and paintwork of moreporks in 2D, we decided to offer clay as a medium to further explore ideas and thinking in 3D.
|Akke and Rachel|