Art & Design
We have been looking at artists who have painted icebergs and have tried to use some of our sketching techniques to draw some ourselves.
Year 6 have been practising their drawing techniques and created these wonderful sketches of the Titanic.
Today, the Owls practised drawing in 2D to look 3D. They practised drawing in a large scale, with big sweeping movements, using their whole arm.
The children became ‘artists’ and continued with the unit of work – Craft and Design: Woven Wonders. The children thought about the question – Can we choose, measure, arrange and fix materials? The children started by recapping over the difference between art and craft. The children looked at pictures and decided whether it was art […]
The children have produced some fabulous still life art over the past few weeks – here are their compositions using oil pastels.
This term we have been focusing on observational drawings, the children have created lots of beautiful art work! To finish our unit off today the children got to use their imagination to create a ‘magical plant’!
Year six have been using charcoals to draw ‘Still Life’. We looked at the famous drawing by Ibere Camargo (Natureza-morta) and some children decided to create their pieces in this style – paying close attention to where the light and shadows fall on the objects.
Year 6 have learning how to draw ‘Still Life’. They focused on proportion, space, line and shading. Some excellent pieces were created.
We began our new art unit of ‘Drawing’ this week! We learnt some techniques of how to sketch using shape and put these to the test in our natural environment! The children created some beautiful artwork.
KS2 had a lovely afternoon making Easter Bunnies – it’s amazing what you can do with a few egg boxes, old cereal packets and scrap pieces of card!
As part of our Evolution topic, we have been looking at how different artists portray monkeys and have begun to explore ideas in preparation for our final piece.