Pointillism Apple

W.A.L.T draw an apple using the art and drawing technique pointillism.

This week our teacher Mr Pickard started a new art project for our shared book and art session. He decided that this week we were going to be doing pointillism. Pointillism is a form of art that uses many dots, that create shades and highlights with the object you are illustrating. The object we were asked to draw was an apple. We could either do this with colour or a pencil. I decided to use a pencil Because I thought it added more effect. How we did this was we drew the outline of our apple either in colour or pencil. Then we decided where the light and dark areas were going to be. We also drew out where the shadow was going to be, based on the position of the light. Once we had sketched out all the essential areas, we started to draw lots and lots of dots, adding more in the areas where the shadows were. If you are thinking of doing this yourself but you want to do it quickly, then I suggest you draw something small, because the larger your drawing is the longer it takes. You can also do pointillism with paint, this is actually the most common pointillism technique used by famous artists, here's the link if you want to check it out; Pointillism Artists.

I found this activity pretty enjoyable and definitely want try it again sometime!

Would you try pointillism?

Seed Collections

W.A.L.T: identify and describe different seed types.

Yesterday we went down to the wetlands. What we call "the wetlands" is a place next to our school teeming with plants and animal life. We collected four seed types down by a wide river that runs through the land. We stored them in tins until we came back to school and inspected them, here are all the seed types that we collected...

1) Kowhai seeds

• small and yellow
• bead shaped
• covered in multiple circle shaped seed coverings when hanging from a tree

2) Liquid Amber seeds

• spiky on the outside
• colour ranging from green to brown
• suspended on tree by thin wooden twig

3) Karo seeds

• small, sticky and black seeds
• encased in a circular wooden covering with deep indents

4) London Plane Tree seeds

• outside covered in pin sized wooden circles
• fingernail sized wooden seed in the middle of coverage.
• seeds covered in light brown fluff that look like a dandelions
• suspended on tree by thin wooden twig

The pictures for each seed are displayed beside the text in the order that the written classifications are. The reason we collected the seeds is because we are going to plant them in these paper pots that we made out of newspaper and once the shoots have shown we'll plant them in the ground along the river as part of our wai restoration project that my class is working on.

Me and my class mates found it super fun trying to figure out the types of trees that the seeds were. Me and my group were so excited once we had gotten them all right.

Do you have any seeds that are around your school or house? If so, make sure to write them down in the comments!