Year 3 are learning about rocks and fossils, so for our art lesson this week  we studied them in greater detail.  First we did a continuous line drawing of our rock or fossil, using a black fine liner.  This skill means that the artist does not take their pen off the paper for the whole of the drawing. This was a challenge but the children rose to it well.

After that, we explored the use of carbon paper to make monoprints.   The children placed their carbon paper on top of cartridge paper and then tracing paper on top  of their carbon paper.  Then they carefully drew their rock or fossil onto the tracing paper with a sharp pencil. The children were fascinated to see their drawing appear on the cartridge paper…just like magic.

Not content with that we decided to challenge this even further by rubbing oil pastels onto the ink side of the carbon paper and then repeated the process.  The results were great!