Year 4 were learning about the earth’s crust, so I thought we’d look at what comes from under the earth’s surface. We looked at Jenny Kee’s opal artworks from the1980’s that have been printed onto silk scarves and her Black Opal print that was used by Karl Lagerfeld in his first prêt-a-porter collection for Chanel in 1983 on shirt dresses and suit lining. We then compared these artworks with another Australian artist, Dianne Delandro from Sydney who has made a number of artworks featuring opals.
Students began their artwork by putting down small blobs of paint (mainly cool colours) and then scraping in various directions, then adding some warm colours into the gaps (not too much red, as it’s the rarest colour you’ll find in opals) and scraping some more.
Next lesson, the students drew organic shapes with a black marker and used black paint sticks to colour the negative space. White pencils were used to add outlines and highlights to make the opals a look a little 3D.
Lesson plan aligned to the Victorian curriculum, with learning intentions, success criteria, focus artists and artworks, discussion questions, lesson steps, materials and resources, and photo examples.
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