28/29 AUGUST, 2008.
This project was in conjunction with Swanlea Secondary School, Whitechapel.
Year 7 pupils at the school were asked to produce drawings based on 3 themes: Outer Space, Jungles and Ocean Life. The brief was to base their themes on the style of Naive artist, Henri Rousseau. We embraced all ideas with bold colours, bold ideas and a huge dollop of imagination.
Taking their final pieces to Osmani Primary School, we recreated the very best of the images onto the whitewashed walls. Using Photoshop, I was able to illustrate the speed at which an artist / architect can make definite design decisions.
A great transitionary project for both Year 6 and 7 pupils.
I looked at parrots for far too long. Draw it. Draw it. Draw it. Draw it.
How gorgeous to recreate childlike illustrations within the climbing plants. 2D meets the organic 3D. Delicious.
The project was executed over 48 hours. The wall is 8 ft by 24 ft. I started planning it out in pencil, but with limited time decided to paint directly onto the wall. The results were less fussy and illustrated the pupils' work perfectly.
The tall alien on the right was fun to copy onto the wall in such large scale. The boy who drew this alien was delighted at the result. How wonderful that a pupils' work is on display like this.
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