Blog by Tag: Art

Year 6 have been learning about the French, 19th Century artist, Georges Seurat and his neo-impressionist movement: Pointillism
When we found out how Seurat used tiny individual dots of paint to create his stunning paintings, we were impressed, yet when we learned how he only used the three…

This afternoon, we have been using clay to make more Eva Rothschild sculptures.

Year 4 have been designing and making chairs. We made a variety of test chairs to see which materials were good to use. Next we designed a chair for a teddy or book character in our sketch books. Finally, we had a fun afternoon making our finished product.

Look at our fabulous self portraits.  Can you tell who is who?

This afternoon we have been making sculptures in the style of the modern artist Eva Rothschild. We have used art straws to make minimalist sculptures.

Look at our lovely name art.

We enjoyed looking at our own faces and drawing a self-portrait. We also looked at the different media that created dark and light colours.

We enjoyed completing the ‘make a face’ challenge in the creative area. 

Look at our fantastic boat pictures inspired by the artwork of Chas Jacobs and JMW Turner.

Just a few of the fabulous pictures we created inspired by the events of the Great Fire of London.

We have been looking at the artist Pier Mondrian and looking at his use of primary colours. We have been recreating digital pictures on the computers. We used Mondrian's primary colours to explore the secondary colours we could make by mixing the primary colours.  

Today we created a 3D picture of the Great Fire of London.  First we did a detailed pencil sketch using pictures of Ludgate and St Paul’s Cathedral to inspire us.  Then we created flames using coloured tissue and crepe paper and card.  Finally we combined the two to create these fabulous…