Art: Great Fire of London Lessons 3 and 4

Lesson: Art and design

We have really been enjoying our art lessons this week.  After sketching Tudor houses in charcoal and then recreating them with strips of black paper, we started experimenting with different media (tissue paper, chalk, oil pastels and pencils) to create a fire effect for the background of our finished piece of artwork. We discovered that chalk was very easy to blend and made an excellent fire effect, whilst tissue paper gave the fire a deeper, more intense effect.

We began our final pieces (inspired by Rita Greer's painting) by blending yellow, orange and red chalk over a pre-paint washed piece of A3 cartridge paper and blended those colours as if our lives depended on it.  Next week, we will be adding our charcoal and paper Tudor houses and tissue paper fire.  We're certain our finished pieces will turn out brilliantly,