Our block of art lessons began last week with research - we learnt about Elizabeth Blackwell, her art work and created our own moodboards to help inspire our final pieces. We then moved on to experimentation, where we learnt different techniques to create tone and texture, using different grades of pencils and graphite:

Our final lesson last week saw us look at individual parts of plants, noticing the leaves, stems. petals and flower heads and designing our own art work, thinking about using the different techniques we had learnt to add tone and texture.

Today we continued with our art lessons, using all of our knowledge to draw our own flowers:

And finally, as all good artists do, we evaluated our work after, discussing what went well and ways to improve or make changes next time: