Blog by Tag: Art

We used coloured clay to make reliefs of our faces.  Can you spot yourself?

At long last the materials arrived so we could make our plasticine relief faces.  Can you tell who is who?

We have been studying the exciting story of the adventurer Shackleton. In art we have also been looking at creating perspective in a picture through use of colour as well as the size of objects. We painted these pictures based on Shackleton's journey across South Georgia and added a family motto…

We have been working on our Christmas prints for weeks now, building up the different layers of colours. It has been great to have Naomi to help teach us some of the key skills. Have a look at some of our finished prints. We are really proud of them!

Today we started our Christmas cards. We needed to start really early as we are making layered prints and they take a long time to dry... We were joined by Mrs St-John, who is an art teacher. She helped us to design an effective image and do our first layer of prints. We'll show you how they turn…

We have been studying the Jabberwocky poem by Lewis Carroll and discussing the moods that the poem creates. Today we used two primary colours and mixed them to create lots of different shades of colour. We then used paper collages to depict the fantasy characters in the poem: the Bandersnatch, the…

In our Literacy, we are making a firework poem. Therefore in art we created pictures using chalk. We smudged some parts to create a smoky effect. 

Recently we have been learning about the Lewis Carroll poem, Jabberwocky. In art, we tried to imagine what the fantasy world of the poem would look like and painted our idea for the setting.  We then used collage to create some of the animals in the poem.  See if you can work out which creatures…

We have studied the architect and artist Hundertwasser. A group of us made these canvases in our own time. We created our own pictures in his style. 

After weeks of designing and printing different layers, our Christmas prints are finished! Here are some of the results...

Year 6 have been using poly-blocks top create multi-coloured Christmas prints. They have achieved some stunning results - look out for them on your Christmas cards.

As part of a topic on colour, painting and collage the children made this picture in the style of the artist Kandinsky.