Blog by Tag: Art

Just look at the fabulous artwork that we have created inspired by the Great Fire of London.  We worked hard over several weeks to slowly build up these dioramas.

Lots of time and effort went in to create this fabulous artwork.  Well done Year 2!

We investigated how other artists used clay to produce a piece of art. We moulded it into the shapes that we wanted using our hands and tools. We are excited to paint them next ! 

We have enjoyed looking at the designer Orla Kiely and have made our own printing tiles in the same style. We have produced some super designs. 

Year 4 have been looking at two artists in this block of work. Hundertwasser was an Austrian painter and architect who enjoyed environmental campaigning. Karla Gerard is an American folk artist producing paintings and textile pieces.

The children built up their skills in drawing with a variety…

Today, we were learning how to create tints and shades for our painting work. We then used them to recreate a painting by Georgia O’Keefe.

This afternoon, Year 3 were practising their observational drawing skills. We were sketching leaves with as much detail as possible.

Year 4 have been making ripped paper collages in the style of Antoni Gaudi. The ripped paper looks like his tile mosaic technique called trencardis. The children had a variety of source material and then designed their own picture. Here are a selection of the completed ones.

We have been building upon our own Matisse style collages. We have been practising the skill of plaiting and added it onto our collages.

Across school today, each year group has enjoyed exploring their learning through Drew Daywalt's wonderful story: The Day the Crayons Quit!

In Year 2, we explored synonyms for the names of the colours, and created colour thesauruses on the computer using the application 'Paint'. We started off…

World Book Day started with the teachers reading letters to Duncan from the book The Day the Crayons Quit. This set the scene for the rest of the day. Year 4 had the blue crayon which was complaining as it was short and stubby because it had been used to colour, oceans, skies and rivers. Year 4…

We explored mixing the primary colours to make secondary colours. We also discussed how we could make them lighter and darker.