Fire! Fire!

As part of Year 2's Fire of London topic, they created some mixed media pictures. First they created their fire background, using hot colours:red, orange and yellow. They tried to merge these into to one another.

Then they practised drawing Tudor style houses, before making their own. Some used either small, medium or large Tudor house templates to get them started, while others drew them freehand. They decided where the beams and windows would go and then stuck black sugar paper strips to show this. Finally, they added detail for the panes of glass and wood for the door with a black Sharpie. They tried to make as many different sized houses as they could but they were VERY fiddly!!

In Literacy, and during some Drama lessons with Splish, they pretended to be characters in the Great Fire of London, thinking about how they might feel and therefore act.

They used these ideas when they got dressed in costume and had their pictures taken in their chosen poses.

Eventually all three things came together - our fire backgrounds, houses and poses to create our Fire! Fire! pictures. 

We thought about the hot colours we used for our fire pictures (yellow, orange and red) and what the opposite cold colours might be (blue, purple, green). We then used hot and cold colours to create our hand pictures, using oil pastels.

One of the buildings that was damaged in the Great Fire was St Paul's Cathedral, which was then rebuilt to Christopher Wren's design. We attempted some line drawings of St Pauls which we them simplified to create a blue mono-print. We made them blue, as the fire was over so we wanted to use cool, calm colours.

Right at the end of the topic we worked in groups, on long sheets of brown paper to create our own Tudor London scenes using black pens - we tried to make them busy and full of Tudor houses, that we were now experts in drawing.