Many many vanishing points

Before we created the pop up landscapes with our year 6 students, we worked on the background  image. We looked at Dutch landscape painting from the 17th century and observed the broad variety of colours that are present in the well known stormy skies that are so typical of dutch landscape painting. Our students worked solely with primary colours and white. They used block paints and learned how to mix colours to create a great variety of tones and shades (see previous post on pop ups, y6). Students also learned how to use a vanishing point to create the illusion of vast distances in the landscapes.
We felt that their work was beautiful and worth leaving intact, so we photocopied the original paintings and used the copies to produce the pop up cards. Below is an image of some of their landscapes.