Blog by Tag: Art

This afternoon, we have been experimenting with drawing. We have looked at artwork by William Morris to see how he uses colour and textures in his prints. The children were then asked to copy a photograph but they weren’t allowed to take their pencil off the page whilst drawing. It was very…

This week we looked at the amazing animals found on the continent of Africa.  After exploring these animals we looked closely at the colour and texture of their skin.  We used careful observation to draw the patterns before using our painting skills to match…

Another example of our very careful drawing and painting today.

We also made finger puppets this afternoon.  Again we had to think carefully about the colours we used.  We also had to cut out our animal templates including two very tricky inner circles for our fingers.

This afternoon, we started our printing topic in Art. We looked at artwork by William Morris, Richard Shimmel and Lisa Stubbs. We then used carbon paper to print pictures we had drawn onto our paper in repeating patterns.

Not quite the real thing but at least we found some British animals in our playground.

We started our new topic off in the playground (in spite of the rain) with a search for some British animals.  We knew lots of them were nocturnal so Mrs Cross may have helped us out and put some pictures out to help us!

After several weeks of designing, printing, drying, printing, drying and more printing, our Christmas cards are finally finished! We are very proud of them and hope our parents like them. Special thanks to Naomi for sharing her time and expertise with us.

In Nursery we encourage all children to be creative. We provided a range of loose parts for children to create winter scenes after looking at paintings on our computer. We are using the pictures for our cards this year. No two cards will be the same.

This morning we made stained glass baubles to decorate our school Christmas tree. Thank you to all our parents for giving up their time to help us. Our baubles look beautiful.

We have been working hard on our printing over the last two weeks. Last week, we added a second colour to our original prints, after adding more detail to our initial outline shapes.

Today we removed our main motif from our tile and worked on adding detail to our backgrounds. Finally we chose a…

After designing our own African Mask we have now entered the making phase. Step 1 was to create our mask outline in cardboard. Step 2 was covering the whole mask in Modroc which is a plaster product that  hardens as it dries. Keep watching for Step 3 (coming soon).