Henry Moore inspired shelter art.
Year 6 used a technique developed by Henry Moore that he used in his artwork based upon people taking shelter in the London Underground during the Blitz of World War 2.
Henry Moore:
'I hit upon this technique by accident, sometime before the war when doing a drawing to amuse a young niece of mine. I used some of the cheap wax crayons (which she had bought from Woolworth’s) in combination with a wash of water-colour, and found, of course, that the water-colour did not ‘take’ on the wax, but only on the background.
I found also that if you use a light-coloured or even white wax crayon, then a dark depth of background can easily be produced by painting with dark water-colour over the whole sheet of paper'.