11 Nov

Clay Monkey Art

Today in Art we looked at the work of Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter who is famous for her self portraits. We found out a little about her life and learned how hard it had been. 
We tried to find adjectives to describe her painting, Self-Portrait with Monkeys,  before creating our own monkeys as…

10 Nov

Remembrance Pointillism (Part 1)

After learning about Georges Seurat and his unique style of painting (Pointillism), we designed and starting painting our own pictures using techniques inspired by Seurat.

We decided that optical mixing was more effective on larger canvases with smaller dots of paint, as Seurat did, however, as…

9 Nov

Optical Mixing

Year 6 have been learning about the French, 19th Century artist, Georges Seurat and his neo-impressionist movement: Pointillism
When we found out how Seurat used tiny individual dots of paint to create his stunning paintings, we were impressed, yet when we learned how he only used the three…

20 Oct

Eva Rothschild clay work

This afternoon, we have been using clay to make more Eva Rothschild sculptures.

 

 

18 Oct

Year 4 art - designing chairs

Year 4 have been designing and making chairs. We made a variety of test chairs to see which materials were good to use. Next we designed a chair for a teddy or book character in our sketch books. Finally, we had a fun afternoon making our finished product.

6 Oct

Year 2 Self Portraits

Look at our fabulous self portraits.  Can you tell who is who?

29 Sep

Sculpture work

This afternoon we have been making sculptures in the style of the modern artist Eva Rothschild. We have used art straws to make minimalist sculptures.

 

15 Sep

Y2 Name Art

Look at our lovely name art.

15 Sep

Self Portraits

We enjoyed looking at our own faces and drawing a self-portrait. We also looked at the different media that created dark and light colours.

9 Sep

First week of Y1 in the Creative area

We enjoyed completing the ‘make a face’ challenge in the creative area. 

14 Jul

Sailing Boats

Look at our fantastic boat pictures inspired by the artwork of Chas Jacobs and JMW Turner.

 

24 Jun

Great Fire of London Art

Just a few of the fabulous pictures we created inspired by the events of the Great Fire of London.