This term M.C.S was focusing on Africa so we decided to make some African murals. Room 1 decided to make a mural about boabab trees, other classes chose to do murals of camels in the African landscape and African patterns.
For our mural we had to draw some boabab trees, so we looked at lots of pictures and photos of boabab trees. When we thought we were ready to draw a portrait of the tree we chose if we wanted to draw a big tree or a small tree. We got some scrap paper - big if you wanted to draw a big tree and small if you wanted to draw a small tree. You then gave your drawing to Ms D and if she thought you could do better she gave you another piece of paper and told you what you needed to do better and if she approved of your tree she gave you a good piece of paper with a grid on it.
Next we copied our tree onto the good piece of paper. When we had drawn our tree onto the good piece of paper Ms D drew either a circle sun or an oval sun outline. When we'd done that we had to go and find a partner and start colouring in the background. We were only allowed to use different types of green and blues for the background but for the sun we were allowed to use red, yellow and orange. It was very hard because the grid made you get confused on were to colour in. Once we had finished colouring the back round we had to paint over our picture with very watery black paint, then we waited for the paint to dry next we painted the tree black so it gave it a sort of shadowy look.
After that Devin and Lusi painted our backround a bluey grey. They were trying to get it from dark grey to light blue after they had finished it looked awesome. Once the backround had dried Finnley and Devin painted a pathway onto the backround while some girls made some baobab trees with patterns on their trunks. Then the trees were stuck on by the path. Next Mrs D stuck the paintings onto the mural and voila our mural was done. Here is our mural finished and some other classes ones that I liked.
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