Chalk Pastel Cityscape

In this lesson students explore shape and space to create a cityscape using chalk pastels. Students use paper to cut out the silhouette of different buildings. Using chalk pastels and starting from the bottom of a page students outline the cut outs and smudge the pastel. Students continue to repeat this process moving up the page.

Lesson 1

Students explore city scapes and different photographs and representations of cities. Discuss the shapes which they can see and the way that light appears in the images.

Using a piece of card students cut small shapes emulating the shapes of buildings in cities. Students cut at least 3 different shapes pieces of card. Using a chalk pastel students work from the bottom of their page and trace around the shape with their pastel smudging the colour. Students repeat this process creating buildings next to each other and on top of each other.

Once students have completed their page of buildings they can add lights to their city and stars to the sky to create detail.

Reflection:

Students reflect on how they have used shape and space to create a city scape and how they have used the medium of chalk pastel to represent light.

Extension:

Students can work with a variety of different shapes and create multiple cardboard cut outs to use as a stencil on larger paper.

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