Last term we started learning some new drawing techniques to create a beach landscape. As we have been learning about Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia and Thailand, we have wistfully been dreaming of hot beaches with palm trees nearer the equator!

So this youtube video and accompanying ‘How to’ videos was our perfect holiday without a holiday drawing task! We did a similar artwork last year, you can check it out here.

We followed pinsetter’s 4 videos showing us techniques for drawing a sky with clouds, the ocean, sand and finally palm trees.

We used charcoal, 2B-6B pencils, kneadable erasers and tortillions – A.K.A ‘blending sticks’.

Here are our results! We learned a lot of new skills, and were  amazed at all the things we could do with just black and white!

Some artworks have such good features that they were better than Miss B’s!

So 5/6J and our visitors, what do you think of our beach landscapes?

Please leave us a comment 🙂