Underwater surrealist paintings

Various steps were taken to achieve the final result.  Firstly children watched the powerpoint Op Art Shading Blobs and created their own and cut it up.  They choose Antarctic sea creatures and drew these on a separate piece of paper and cut them out.  Children prepared the background of their black piece of  paper by carefully loading their brushes with white and light and dark blue acrylic paint.  After they painted the background they covered it with glad wrap until it was almost dry.  When they peeled off the glad wrap it left the lovely marks you see.  Finally the children combined these techniques to compose their final image.