During the last week of term 3 Room 24 were very privileged to have famous New Zealand artist Rhondda Greig visit. Rhondda was once a pupil of St Albans Primary School and after the recent earthquake she decided she would like to work with the present students to create some art work to reflect the children's personal thoughts and experiences of the big quake.
Rhondda shared her paintings and drawings with us, showing us the detailed process she goes through from first sketch ideas to published books. You can see many of Rhondda's fabulous art works on her website www.rhonddagreig.com
After viewing Rhondda's work we discussed the the sounds, feelings and colours that they associated with the 7.1 magnitude earthquake. We came up with ideas such as ' like a train crashing through the house' and 'it sounded like a thousand jets flying over my house.'
Rhondda also showed us many different techniques to experiment with using the paint and pastels .
The class set to work creating a mixture of artworks using oil pastel, chalk pastel, paint and paper cut outs. The art wok took many attempts to get to a final stage with Rhondda giving each class member plenty of ideas and tips to create something they could be really proud of.
Check back here soon to see some photos of our finished work.
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