Comic book character - alter egos

After researching comic book characters, how they are developed and how comic art is created by the professionals students designed a character to reflect their own personalities with special powers and special gadgets attached to their super hero suits! After creating their character they then created a short comic strip.

The project took an entire term but it was well worth it and the outcomes where amazing.

Mythical creature collage

Mix 100 colours

Lesson idea accessed from http://teachkidsart.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/mixing-100-colors.html

The challenge was for students to mix 100 colours without using water to wash their brush.

My many coloured days - colour as emotion prep books

After reading 'My many coloured days' by Dr Seuss students explored way to convery emotion using colour. They completed three enotions expressing them udsing their bodies, drawign them in oil pastel and then painting a wax resist to coincide with the emotion to finish off the work. It was great fun and most students really understood the way that colour can be used to convey emtion. The students face has been covered for privacy.

Mixed media self portraits

Aboriginal art inspired totem poles

Line and shading exercise

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