Grade 4 students are exploring the question, "How does the medium we choose affect our final art work?". We tried making marks with many different kinds of mediums: oil pastels, markers, sharpies, water colour pencils and colouring pencils.
Some reflections:
Next students added water on top of the marks to see what happened. They made a guess about what they thought would happen first.
Some reflections:
- Pencils are better for making detailed pictures! -Alex
- Oil pastels are better for colouring in things quickly. -Teja
- Oil pastels create different textures! -Nishka
- Oil pastels can be blended. Paint cant. -Dylan
- It's easier to draw details with colouring pencils and permanent markers. -Quinten & Maria
- Markers give you more control. -Sirine
- Permanent markers were darker than the normal markers. -Amelie
- Oil pastels can give dark marks or light marks -Vazir
Next students added water on top of the marks to see what happened. They made a guess about what they thought would happen first.
- The markers almost disappeared. -Romy
- The water colour pencils blended into the water.
- The permanent markers didn't change! -
- I thought that the water pencils would not blend with the water. -Injoon and lots of other people!
