The document provides instructions for creating alien creatures using various art materials. It outlines 7 steps: 1) Drawing examples of alien body parts, 2) Assembling the body parts into creative creatures, 3) Enlarging one creature using a black marker, 4) Tracing the creature and adding an environment using thick chalk lines, 5) Filling in color within the chalk lines using oil pastels, 6) Carefully transferring the colored drawing to newspaper, and 7) Painting ink over the drawing, which creates a unique effect. The finished artworks will be displayed for others to see the imagined alien critters and their environment.

1. S5 Critters from Alien Earth (LA7) Model: Stella Attwater Overview of the process

2. Materials Remove the black crayon from the box of oil pastels (crayons) + Newspaper + Brush and jar for ink

3. Narrative 1: … So you can remember them all, you quickly draw down examples of different types of these body parts.

4. Narrative 2: ... remember roughly how the different body parts go together but when you look at your drawings you can’t remember which parts go with what! However, not wanting to disappoint everyone, you decide to put the pieces together to make the most interesting creations you can devise.

5. Narrative 3: Now, having worked out three critters you then decide to draw one in a larger size using a black feltpen on a large piece of paper, so it can be displayed and everyone can see it. (Plutoneons are a little short sighted!)

6. Narrative 4&5: …Professor Knowzalot wants a coloured version. Some people are never satisfied! ... First you need to trace your drawing on a new piece of paper using thick CHALK lines… Professor Knowzalot comes by again ‘By the way,’ she says, ‘We want to know something about the environment these critters live in, so don’t forget to draw that in too’.

7. Narrative 6: … but you remember that Earth was a planet full of lots of different colours. You want to convey that using all the lovely colours in your box of oil pastels. The special process you are going to use means that you fill in the colour UP TO THE CHALK LINES BUT NOT OVER THEM. You use your crayons thickly and sometimes you blend colours together.

9. Narrative 7: …You carefully carry your crayon drawing to the ink workstation on your sheet of newspaper and lie it down flat. You dip the brush in the ink and paint long strokes of ink over your drawing. Look! What has happened? Professor Knowzalot is very impressed!

12. Some examples of critters by Curtin University pre-service teachers

13. Group display – Some examples by Curtin University pre-service teachers