Art: Great Fire of London Lessons 1 and 2

Lesson: Art and design

Today we began our block of art lessons.  We started by looking at the paintings of English artist Rita Greer and in particular her 2008 painting of the Great Fire of London.  Over the next two weeks, we are going to be creating our own pictures of the Great Fire of London using different media to create the background, the houses and the fire.

This afternoon, we did some observational drawings of Tudor houses using charcoal, we even managed not to create a huge mess and Mrs Simmons was very impressed.  Have a look at our wonderful drawings (the first is Rita Greer's painting that we will be recreating in our own way).

The next day, we recreated our charcoal Tudor houses with strips of black paper.  What do you think...?