Grade 6 students created this monochromatic acrylic piece during their term topic of colours& hues.Students were asked to design a collaborative piece to display and honour our Australian soldiers for A.N.Z.A.C day.Students selected “The Unknown Soldier” as they felt that there were many soldiers who were not identified during WWI or those that died abroad were unable to be buried in Australia. Students had originally created a colour draft of this piece using greens, however felt that the monochrome grey had greater contrast with the red crate-paper poppies that were created by the prep - 2 students and placed on the wall surrounding the piece.

Students also described this piece as looking “sad, ghostly, like a zombie, and old” because they used the grey scale. In order that each student was able to contribute to the piece. We used the website “block poster” to enlarge the image of the soldier and print it out onto several A4 sheets.

Students later mentioned that the puzzle piece effect using several A4 sheets represented the fractured soldiers that did survive post war and lived with disorders such as PTSD. Each group of students worked together on the sheet to draft where they would place the different greys(Black, dark grey, grey, light grey, white). Then used acrylic poster paint to paint where they had seperate the hues. Each A4 page was then trimmed and placed back together as one whole piece.