The class from year 4 sketched around the Shadwell Basin concentrating on buildings, street furniture and trees and how they were reflected on the water.
Cloth of Gold
Residency at St. Peter's School
Shadwell Basin Banner
Years 4 and 6
Year 4 and 6 classes worked together to create the Shadwell Basin banner.
The artists design for this project developed from sketches they had made around the Shadwell Basin. The two swing bridges that crossed the waterways in and out of the basin area were used to form the structure within which the children would develop their designs. The overall design was intended to portray the enclosed nature of the Basin, the surrounding buildings swing bridges.
The class from year 4 sketched around the Shadwell Basin concentrating on buildings, street furniture and trees and how they were reflected on the water.
The children reworked the drawings back in the classroom and created larger and simplified images that were cut out and carefully laid out in a circle to create the centre of the banner. Using colours observed from the sky, buildings and water at Shadwell Basin a blend of inks were used to print the background shapes creating the sky and waters edge surrounding their paper shapes.
The buildings were individually printed and coloured in. In the centre of the banner the children hand painted and over printed the water using cut out shapes of reflections and patterns they had seen on the surface of the water.
Year 6 started the project by drawing the swing bridge at Shadwell Basin. They drew details of the machinery on the bridge making careful observational drawings. They also made sketches of the bridge from different angles and noted down colours and patterns created by the weathering of the metal.
Back in the classroom groups of children drew up four separate enlarged profiles of the bridge from the drawings they had made. These were then cut out and printed in four dark green sections around the edge of the banner to create the frame around the centre which were then hand painted by each group in a selection of colours taken from the bridge.
The remaining area was filled with screen prints of enlarged details of the machinery and metal structure of the bridge taken from their drawings and translated into bold paper shapes. Once printed the shapes were painted in with a light wash of two colours.
The finished banner
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