Ruyton Girls School

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• The students began this project with a drawing lesson.
• Leaves were collected and time was spent studying the detail of their internal features. The drawings were completed using 2B pencils.
• Closely observing the details of another leaf, the students drew directly on to foam and prepared the plate for the relief printing technique.
• Collage backgrounds and coloured paper were used to print the foam leaf images.
• The collage effect was created overlapping torn edges of a variety of textured papers.
• Only black and white printing ink was used to give strong contrast against the papers.
  

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• The students were introduced to floral studies by works of artists such as Dufy, Van Gogh, Matisse, Klimt and Redon.
• They then brainstormed the different flower types and varieties.
• The lesson proceeded with colour mixing.
• Working from a monochrome palette they experimented with shades and tints by adding white or black to some of their colours.
• These were prepared prior to the painting and other tones were created by painting directly on to the paper.

Fish in Water

• To make their fish in water the students created a collage background of water using a number of different paper types and combining matt and shiny surfaces.
• The selected papers were torn rather than cut to help create the feeling and movement of water.
• The fish were made using plastic contact, glitter and cellophane.