Rm21Mural

Beautifying Our Garden: Creating a Butterfly Mural

Stage 1

After Miss Nicholas had cut the marine ply into 30cm squares and we had helped her sand the edges we needed to prepare the squares by painting them with a base coat of black paint.





​ Stage 2

We studied pictures of butterflies, both from New Zealand and around the world. We discussed how we could use parts of these butterfly pictures to create an eye-catching painting. After choosing the pictures that inspired us the most we drew four possible pictures that could be used for our painting. These are the drafts some of us began with:



Stage 3

Each of us chose our favourite and most effective picture. Now we needed to enlarge it!

In maths we learnt how to enlarge our pictures using scale factors. We increased our pictures using a scale factor of 3...this meant we began with a square 10cm in length and increased our pictures to fit in a square 30cm in length. You can see the grids on our pictures that we used to help us enlarge.







 Stage 4

Now that our enlarged drafts were complete we were ready to begin our mural tiles! First we needed to draw our outlines on using chalk.





Now we are ready to paint!



Techniques we have used include:

Tonal Modelling, stipple, cross hatch, flat block, dry brushing, scribble and splatter.





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