Year 2 studied Henri Matisse’s ‘Cut Outs’ created when he was ill and bed bound, he described his impressionistic way of working as ‘drawing with scissors’. They designed organic shaped templates to give an impression of leaf shapes and carefully considered the colour, composition and placement of their shapes.
As part of their myths and legends project, Year 5 have been designing their own flags. Once they had reflected on their designs and developed them, they then started their final designs on fabric.
Starting with a photograph to spark their curiosity Year 2 continued working on their scented garden projects and undertook a colour matching exercise to create an impressionistic ‘scented garden’.
Year 2s Scented Garden Our project this term is the scented garden. For the last two weeks we have been working on a mixed media piece aimed at creating texture and relief in the picture from different types of recycled paper: old abandoned sketchbooks, newspaper twists and scrap paper. The children needed to draw on…
With view finders at the ready Year 6 were using their reflective skills and the concepts of thirds to help them with their landscape drawings.
Beautiful weather and beautiful flowers bought out some real resourcefulness in Year 2. They had to observe, sketch, then they added colour with gentle water colours.
Year 2 have made Easter cards this week. The learning emphasis was on using templates as accurately as possible, careful cutting out and using the shapes to create repeating patterns.
This week the Year 3 considered the enlargement of flowers by Georgia O’Keefe. Using a viewfinder placed onto a chosen position of a photograph of a flower, the children drew an enlargement of that small area in oil pastel. They considered the position and the size as well as the boldness of colour which can…
This week, RL have been thinking about spring and what you see happening in the natural world at this time of year. For some spring art, the children painted a tree and decorated it with bubble wrap printed blossom. In addition, they made tye-dye flowers by twisting a baby wipe, adding rubber bands and decorating…
The excitement of being back in the Art Room and evidence of spring beginning to emerge all over the school site, has really sparked some fantastic creations amongst the children this week. They have produced some spectacular spring pieces.
