Photographs
Take a Seat: Goldfinch explored our emotional response to colour, shape, texture and size by designing and making a unique chair.
Chaffinch exploring shape and colour
We made a lightbox room and used coloured light filter to see how the colours changed our emotional response.
We brought our 2D birds to life with our 3D sculptures
A great opportunity to sketch a visiting pony today in a short art lesson. We used a grid the free sketch technique to see what we preferred. Some great results from goldfinch class.
Year 1and 2 started a new unit on birds. Sketching was the order of the day. Keep an eye on this page as we bring our 2d wor to life with 3D sculptures in the coming weeks!
We enjoyed an active art lesson today building our own sketch books and recording colours. We thought about our emotional response to colour in all it's different shades.
Making stars as a backdrop to our Christmas Play. Lots of resilience and scientific thinking was needed.
Our mountain art has been inspired by the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji - a series of landscape prints by the Japanese artist Hokusai (1760–1849).
Me on a page: collage work by our y6 leavers. They loved this art and were keen to make a record of themselves in their final week of school 🏫
As part of our stone age topic we have been investigating how paint was made for cave paintings. We made a mixture of chalk and charcoal paint using oil, glue and lard as the base. Then we painted with sticks and feathers. We realised that art was more difficult before the invention of felt tips and poster paint!
Our study of the famous artist Henry Rousseau lead to our beautiful collage and pastel work on the jungle.
We worked collaboratively to make a rainforest kingfisher from block print feathers as part of our Rainforest topic. The end result was beautiful 🤩
We enjoyed using clay to make our own Greek Pots. We made a pressed clay base then used coils to shape our pots.
We had a visiting artist in school. Bee told us all about how she started, what skills she’s learnt along the way and shared lots of her work with us. We were all so inspired and thoroughly enjoyed working on one of her line drawings she left us.
Harvest art with year 1 and 2. Such attention to detail!
Chaffinch Class were investigating sculptures using different materials. They enjoyed constructing scarecrow sculptures.
Goldfinch Class were closely observing plants and flowers before experimenting with oil pastels in bold colour choice. We were thinking about selecting complimentary or contrasting colours. Our results were really impressive.
The Northern Lights - we've worked in chalks to create these masterpieces. This is our first try! We will have another go next week and see if we can improve our technique.
Goldfinch: multimedia work with pencil and watercolour as part of our mountain study.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Inspired Art Day
We have been fascinated by cave artists in Goldfinch this term. Stone age people used natural straws and hollow grass to blow earth, blood and natural dyes onto their hands. We used paint and spray bottles. Art history!
Rousseau-inspired rainforest art. We blended colours and experimented with shape before assembling our collages.
Block printing and experimenting with colour:
Observational drawing with a focus on scale, shape and colour. We chose pencil, pastel or mixed media.
Outdoor art and wellbeing lesson - Andy Goldsworthy style
