Materials:

• Zart printing foam and ink
• Tissue paper
• Crayon and fineliner

How to:

• In an effort to integrate the Year 3/4's art sessions with their experience of the Athens Olympic Games, we looked at and discussed examples of work by artisans in Ancient Greece
• In particular the vase painters and architects, observing how art reflected the lifestyle, culture and values of those times
• Students observed how they used decorative pattern making, repetition, contrast and balance to create their art and tried drawing some of these designs themselves
• Using symmetry, the students drew a vase from observation and transferred their designs onto printmaking foam
• Students printed each vase and discussed the negative-positive effects created when printmaking
• Some classes drew half of their vase and printed the other in order to fully appreciate this principle
• The backgrounds were created using torn tissue paper, rubbed over with crayon and decorated using a design from the student's own vase

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