Blog by Tag: Art

This week we have started our printing project in art, to create our Christmas cards for this year. We used polystyrene blocks to cut out our basic design. We then used special printing ink to evenly coat our blocks before transferring the design onto paper. Watch out for more blogs showing our…

We had an incredibly busy day today as we were finishing our Great Fire of London fact files for display and creating 3D pictures of famous building that were destroyed during the Great Fire.

Today it was the boys’ turn to go along to Lancaster and Morecambe College for their tournament. There were 25 schools represented and our team of Y6 boys worked really well as a team. They won two games in their pool, drew one and lost one, narrowly missing out on a place in the quarter finals. 
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Year 6’s art topic this half term has been “People in Action”. As well as learning how to draw people in proportion and looking at various famous artists who drew people, we have studied the work of Alberto Giacometti. He was a Swiss sculptor who became famous for creating life-sized figures, with…

We have been learning about Banksy, the famous, but anonymous, graffiti artist. We found out that often he uses a stencil to spray paint his images at night. He also has a tag or signature which he sometimes adds to his artwork. Today we designed and cut out tags for our own initials. We used…

We have started the year by making graffiti art based on our names! We used bright contrasting colours and a black and white patterned background to make our names pop out! The classroom is looking bright already!

We have been working all this half-term on the different parts of our rainforest collages and finally we have put them all together!  We are really proud of our final pictures and hope you like them too!

We enjoyed making flowers out of clay. We manipulated the clay into different shapes, then chose our colours wisely. 

In science, Mrs Dowson has been teaching us all about plants and their lifecycles and in geography we are learning all about plants of the rainforest and how they survive.  Today we drew and painted some hibiscus flowers using watercolour pencils.  We really enjoyed mixing colours and seeing how…

This term we are learning all about tropical rainforests and in our art lessons have been practising making shades and tints of colours. We have been mixing lots of different greens. We will be using these in a rainforest collage later this term.

Last half term Year 4 looked at two different artists. Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Karla Gerard. Hundertwasser was Austrian and Karla Gerard is American. Hundertwasser was also an architect designing lots of unusual buildings in Vienna.

The children practised their drawing skills by…

We have enjoyed making some clay flowers. We cannot wait to paint them. We also discussed the parts of the plants when we were designing them with playdough.