Art & Design
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.
Woodpeckers have been busy this term creating 3D sculptures; here are their final pieces!
We drew eyes and reflected our thanks to all the soldiers who fought in the war.
We completed our final Prehistoric art lesson on the term today in forest school; the children created their own cave art hand-prints using both positive and negative art. Well done Woodpeckers!
The Swans have been experimenting with adding contour lines to their work to create a sense of form , focusing on how they can create a sense of weightiness and gravity. They used a potato to draw contour lines on, placed it on a piece of white paper, observed the shadow that formed and then […]
The children have been learning about the artist Henry Moore. We are focusing our art work this term on his WW2 Shelter Drawings. This week, the children practised some of the techniques he used in preparation for their final piece.
The Year One children became ‘artists’ and started a new unit of work – Painting and Mixed Media. The children thought about the question – Can we investigate how to mix secondary colours. The children listened to the Sesame Street Lego Three Primary Colours. Miss Jones asked the children some questions- What are the primary […]