Friday 28 October 2016

Egyptian Poster

We have started our new history topic Egyptians this term and after creating our homemade scrolls and learning about hieroglyphs and with all our different pieces we haven't had a central point to display the work!

We decided that we would make a poster designed around a sarcophagus and, of course, we wanted to show you how we made it!
I started off with 4 A3 pieces of plain paper and taped them together and then drew an outline of a sarcophagus.


We then taped out alternate sections to make sure some clear definition between the different colours.


The boys then used yellow pastels to shade the sections.


Once they had filled each section they rubbed the colours in to make a blended tone. William, using a orange and a brown, shaded the contour on the face to create some definition.


James and William then gently pulled the tape off and create the definition. It does look rather messy to start but once all of the tape is off it looked really great!


The boys then used a blue pastel to fill in the gaps.



William then used a red to colour some clothing in and a dark brown to create a deepened outline.




That was us at half way mark and because of the size of it we decided to stop as it took us an hour and a half to get this far.


With a new day and some free time we decided to finish the poster.
The process was simple; repeat the same steps as above.
Tape, shade, define, shade again and outline.



With both sides equal William shaded the outside brown highlighting the lighter colours more.


Love that we spent a couple of afternoons doing a giant craft again. We spent a lot of time discussing different things that we thought and knew about being Egyptians and Egypt and had some fun at the same time.

I especially love that it isn't absolutely perfect and "complete" and there are some aspects that need finishing. The boys were happy to stop and I think it looks great and importantly we now have a focal wall display for all our Egypt pieces of work!

What do you think?

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