We admired many of George Rodrigue's Blue Dog paintings and talked about the bright, bold colours he painted with. We were intrigued by the way Blue Dog was standing in each of the paintings and how his eyes were bright yellow and staring straight ahead. Some of the paintings had Blue Dog dressed in funny hats or ties and some had him in front of some very weird backgrounds! We discussed 'Space' as an element of art and how Blue Dog was in the foreground of most of the paintings - he was bold and large, while the backgrounds were painted smaller to look further away.
To create our own Blue Dog inspired paintings, we began by working together in a guided drawing session to practice drawing our own dog. Then we had a go at drawing a background. When students felt ready, they began their artworks by drawing their dog in black oil pastel and then painting with poster paints.
The colours in these finished paintings just look amazing! Well done Grade 1/2! I wonder if any of you can still pronounce George Rodrigue's name? I might ask you again in a few weeks time!
Here are the paintings created by Shannon, Thomas, Sam and Evelyn. Fantastic work!
