Year+9

 Take a leaf.............. Try some of these ideas - or invent your own 


 * Select a leaf and make it your own..!
 * Take some rubbings using wax crayon and printer paper - use a variety of colours. Arrange the rubbings attractively in your sketchbook or a piece of black or coloured paper -or whatever. ..
 * Make a tracing onto tracing paper adding as many vein lines as you think it needs - get it enlarged to about 200% on the photocopier.
 * Use this enlarged drawing as a basis for a collage, or sew beads along all the vein lines or try different line qualities or fill in the space between the lines with different colours or different textures or with lots of leaf words - or try something of your own - be imaginative..
 * __PREP__ June 17th & 18th - Find and print(or copy) a picture by Piet Mondrian; describe the picture in as much detail as you can; say whether you like it or not giving reasons. To be handed in first lesson next week.
 * Use a large outline of your leaf and a few vein lines to make a painting. Choose one colour and paint with as many variations of that colour as you can - use a blotchy impressionist/pointillist style.


 * Create a 2x life size stencil of your leaf in card (try to include the major vein(s)) - keep the leaf shape and the negative shape intact so that you can use both. Use a spray, a roller or splattering to make a number of 'prints'.

More will appear later - but do your own thinking...............................
 * Write the story of your leaf - use personification if you like or make it very factual with measurements and stuff - explain or invent reasons why it has got blemishes or holes or tears etc..