Life in colour
A busy afternoon exploring and mixing colours! We created colour wheels by mixing primary colours. We gradually added black and white to create shades and tints.
Chiaroscuro
In Art, Class Three learned about the technique, chiaroscuro. We applied this technique to create tone and strong contrasts between light and dark. As we are learning about the Maya civilisation in English and History, the children chose a month from the Maya calendar and created the illusion of a…
Experimental Mark Making
Class Three started their new unit of learning in Art this week. The children explored the patterns, colours and symbols of Maya art and recorded their findings through experimental and expressive mark making. We learned about a famous Mexican artist, Diego Rivera, and how his artwork is…
Class Two: Art
Over the past few weeks, our growing artists have been exploring the technique of frottage and the creation of botanical drawings. The children have made some beautiful pieces of artwork that they should be very proud of - well done Class Two!
Art: Map it out
Our art topic this half term is called Map it Out. Class 1 have been working hard with Mrs Wardale. Reception created their own 3d map as a group. Year 2 made their own piece of felt and used part of their map in their designs. A fantastic afternoon of fun and learning!
Autumn fun
We had an afternoon inspired by everything Autumn! We listened to the Leaf Man story and created our own characters. We painted Autumn trees and made leaf rubbings. Reception used conkers to count and match numbers. Year 2 wrote some amazing descriptions of seasonal changes.
Installation Art
Class Three have worked collaboratively to create their own installation art based on the artist, Cai Guo-Qiang. They investigated the effect of space and scale when creating 3D art and loved using a range of materials to create different explosion effects with their positive and negative shape…
Butterfly Sun Catchers
Today we made some beautiful butterfly sun catchers. We coloured our templates using coloured crayons. Once this was done we then used cotten buds to cover our picture in baby oil. The oil helps our pictures to become more see through. We then wiped off any excess oil before allowing to dry.
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Colour splash!
We had great fun experimenting with colours. We identified primary colours - red, yellow and blue and mixed them to create orange, green and purple!
Art - Creating Paper Sculptures
Our art lesson was lots of fun today, creating paper sculptures using different techniques of folding, rolling and twisting paper.
Art - Recreating a famous painting
In Art this week, Class Three used photography to recreate a famous painting. We studied and recreated the painting, ‘The Scream’ by Edvard Munch using expressionistic colours like the artist!
