Castle and Sun

 

A few years back I did a collage project with year 1 students based on Paul Klee's 1928 painting 'The Castle and the Sun'. You can see my post on that project HERE.

'Castle and Sun'. Paul Klee. 1928.

I recently revisited this iconic panting with year 2 students. Students were asked to "build" their own castle using a pencil and ruler to draw stacked geometric shapes to create walls, towers, doors, windows etc. We began with orange paper and students then used oil pastel to colour the shapes individually before outlining their drawing with black pastel.

 

Cardboard Castles

These castles were made by one of my grade 3 classes using two pieces of white card. 

This lesson was inspired by this lesson from dickblick. 

One long piece of card was folded into seven equal sections and decorated as a castle with watercolour pencils and textas. Turrets were cut from the top and some students cut out doors and windows, made small flags to glue to their towers etc. Another piece of card, folded in half, forms the ground and background (a lot of the kids had trouble with the idea of where moats and roads should go!) Once completed I glued the castles to their background piece with a glue gun.

Castle Paintings

Grade 2 students created a drawing of their own imaginary castle after looking at books about castles and fairy tales featuring castles. They then painted their castles and used wooden skewers to draw textures into the paint whilst still it was wet. Once dry, they outlined their work in a black marker.