Sandra Silberzweig art

In Tui class we have been learning about Sandra Silberzweig and her amazing art.  We have started to create our own art work inspired by her.  firstly we started by creating simple but effective patterns on a pattern sheet then we stared drafting two pieces of our inspired Sandra silberzweig art on A paper in the way we wanted it to look, then on the lines we wanted thick we coloured in bold and the lines we wanted thin we left normal .  After that with our pencils on our draft piece of paper we coloured in the spots we wanted black with our pencils and then combined the things that we liked on each paper together on to one piece of paper.   Now with some A3 paper we drafted out our art  with a pencil lightly on our A3 paper then with thick and thin paint brushes and Indian ink we covered all the pencil lines in.   We wanted to make the Indian ink nice and bold for this part so we had to go over it a couple of times so it looked nice and dark not light and grey.  Once we had all got our pencil lines covered in darkly with the Indian ink we left it to dry over night.  When our lines were dried we used chalk pastels to colour our art in.   When we were colouring  our work in we tried not to colour over the black lines cause it doesn't look as effective and we wanted the black lines to stand out.   Now with chalk pastels they crumble a lot when you are colour with them so we had a piece of scrap paper in the middle of each table so when our art work got all the chalk pastel crumbles on it we would dust it off on to the paper carefully so it wouldn't go everywhere.  When we used the pastels we blended the colours together but we didn't blend every colour together we just blended some colours together so that it doesn't look wishy washy.  Lastly we laminated our art work and are going to hang them all on the wall.