Blog by Tag: Art

This afternoon, we were sketching our self portraits. We used sketching pencils (lots of excitement occurred!) to be able to be more accurate with our lines and shapes and the light and dark parts of our face.

Happy Christmas from Year 3!

In art we have been learning about put graffiti art so we used these skills to create our calendars for 2024. We hope you like them!

Over the last three weeks, we have been working hard on developing our printing skills, 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. 
The…

This afternoon, we were mixing primary colours to make the secondary colours. We then used all the colours to make firework art.

Yesterday the local artist Chas Jacobs came to work in school. Chas is a former pupil of our school.

The day started with Chas talking to the whole school about his passion. He encouraged everyone to follow their passion to make them happy. Chas explained how he had always enjoyed art as a…

Today, we have been looking at buildings from 1666 and using our observation skills to make detailed drawings of them for a 3D diorama.

Here are our finished pictures in the style of the street artist Keith Haring! We are really proud of them.

We have been enjoying looking at the pictures of Keith Haring in our graffiti art unit. He uses bright colours to show lots of people, often moving and having fun! We particularly liked the picture ‘Dance Party’ and have made our own versions using collage. We had to practise drawing moving people…

We have been exploring at the different "tags" that graffiti artists such as Banksy use.  They are like their autographs.  We designed our own and cut out stencils from our designs.  Graffiti artists often use spray paints with their stencils but we sponged different colours instead.  We then used…

There was great excitement this afternoon in Year 6 as everyone signed into our Chromebooks for the first time and used them in our art lesson. We used them to research three artists, from different periods of history, who used the medium of drawing in their work: Michaelangelo, Edward Ardizzone…

We used our sense of sight to look closely at our faces. We chose the correct colours and discussed the features of our faces.