Year 2 have been learning about Stephen Wiltshire. They have discovered how he overcame adversity and used his inherent skills to enable him to achieve a successful career as an artist. Wiltshire struggled to be able to communicate as a youngster but found that drawing allowed him to become more calm and he could communicate through his sketches.
Wiltshire is able to commit to memory places he has seen and can then sketch these accurately. He is most famous for his sketches of different landmarks around the world, including vast city-scapes.
The children were excited to draw their own London landmarks and spent time honing and practising their sketching skills. They realised it was not as easy as it seemed to ensure the pencil made various shades of grey- dark and light- all down to how they held the pencil and the pressure they applied.
'Stephen Wiltshire is able to remember what he has seen and sketch it on a big screen' Jolene
'We chose our favourite landmark to sketch' Jersey
'We had to look carefully at the detail on our photo- to look for the shades' Maddison
'If we drew something on top we needed to make it darker so we could see it, like the tree in front of the building' Frankie
'We looked at how Wiltshire made day and night from how he shaded his pictures and how he made the water look like water without using colour' Tyler
Please follow the link to see his impressive work and a quick video of him in action!
Official Webpage
Official Webpage
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