City silhouettes

Today in middle school we were finishing of some silhouette artwork of city skylines. We focused on which buildings make different cities identifiable.

We also tried to use the playback feature of Brushes to create an animation of the sunrise and sunset behind the city silhouette.

Here are some of the finished paintings:













After that we looked at street art and graffiti. Pupils discussed a number of issues around this theme before focusing on the famous images created by Keith Haring:




Pupils then worked on their own drawings based on Haring's work: