Taj Mahal Drawings

I really love these drawings of India's magnificent Taj Mahal by my grade 4 and 5 students.

Students used photographs of the Taj Mahal and its reflection as a reference. They folded their page down the middle and drew the Taj Mahal sitting atop their fold line. They then transferred the image to the other side of their page (like a mirror image) by scribbling or tracing over the back of their image using a lightbox.

Visiting the Taj Mahal.

Once they had their mirror image drawing, they outlined the reflection in a coloured oil pastel of their choice, before applying a wash of one or more coloured dyes to their page. The image was completed by outlining their original drawing.

I was fortunate enough to visit the Taj Mahal a few weeks after these drawings were completed. I felt that I was able to appreciate it more thanks to my students who had been studying images of the palace for weeks. 

Famous Landmarks Paintings

Inspiration: National Geographic


 These Grade Fours were each researching a famous landmark for a class project.I had a packet of National Geographic cards of famous landmarks and gave each student a different card. Each card has a photograph of the place or landmark and features basic information on the back of the card. The students then had to replicate the picture on the card as accurately as they could, first drawing and then painting their landmark.