Yesterday afternoon, we visited Dulwich Picture Gallery for another fantastic art session. Our teacher, Liz, showed us round the special exhibition by Emily Carr. Emily Carr is a Canadian artist and we learned that she particularly likes to paint trees and objects from 'First Nation' communities in British Columbia. We looked at some Totem Poles, masks and instruments, as well as some striking paintings of trees.
We then had a chance to make our own mask, in the style of Emily Carr. One of the animals that featured most in the exhibition was the raven. The 'First Nation' communities tell many stories about the raven and how it saved the sun. The raven could even shape-shift!
Firstly, we coloured the mask template using traditional First Nation colours. We tried to make the patterns symmetrical.
Then we carefully cut out the pieces. We had to follow some quite complicated instructions to attach one piece of the mask to the other! Once they were attached, we added the strap to keep it tight on our faces.
Then, so that they would look like Emily Carr's masks, we added raffia around the top of the mask.
14 comments:
I really enjoyed making those Canadian masks
Blessie and Isaac
The trip was so epicccccccccccc!!!
it was fun
it was very fun doing the masks my favourite part was colouring in the beak my beak looked like a snakes head!
this is fun.
I really liked the masks it was so awesome
I really loved doing the masks it was fun
epiccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc I love st george
I really like learning about ancient Egypt.
hy mrs.parrot, I loved the pictures you posted. I hope you have a very Merry Christmas.
Love from Sofia
I love st. George's class it's the best!!!!!!!!!
cool masks!
It WAS AWESOME and FANTASTICO
IT WAS AWESOME
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