This week Year 5 have been learning about the famous impressionist artist, Claude Monet. We have spent time learning facts about his life and his importance in the art world. We discovered that Monet is considered to be one of the founders of the impressionist art movement and one of Read more
This week in Art Club we took our inspiration from Roy Lichtenstein. Roy Lichtenstein is famous for using Ben-Day dots in his artwork, a technique used to create a pop art aesthetic. The children used carbon copy paper and tracing paper to transfer pictures of themselves onto their blank paper. Read more
This week art club was on the same day as National Sea Turtle Day so we thought it would be a good idea to bring out the watercolours. The children carefully followed a draw along then used watercolours to paint their turtles. The children practised using different techniques such as Read more
This weeks Art Club was inspired by artist Jeff Koon’s iconic balloon dog series. The children created their own brightly coloured balloons dogs using ovals and paint to create the illusion of a round shiny form. They added dimension to their artwork by drawing a cityscape and trees in the Read more
This half term, Year 1 were focussing on ‘Woven Wonders’. We discussed Is it art? Thinking about how art is not just something we draw or paint but can be something made from different materials and patterns. We explored thread and had a try at plaiting, threading and knotting wool Read more
Year 5 have finished our architecture art unit by designing our own monuments. The children looked at famous monument examples and thought about how they would like to be represented. We then brought our ideas to life, annotating them to show what our monument means. We have also studied a Read more
This week and next week, we are reading the story, ‘The Gingerbread Man’. Reception have been designing their own gingerbread person this week. They have been creating their own life size gingerbread outside with chalk. They drew around themselves with a partner and then designed them on the floor.
This week in Year 5 Juniper, we started our new topic called Craft and Design: Architecture. The children this week learned all about observational drawing, scaling, sketching and accuracy. The children enjoyed drawing items from their memory to practice, before they went ahead to draw a house using the techniques Read more
This half term we will be looking at architecture as part of our art topic. Today the children learnt about observational drawing and effective ways to draw the size of an object accurately. We used pencils and rulers as visual markers for the size of a house. We spent time Read more
Year 2 had so much fun dressing up with the theme ‘careers’ and they all looked amazing. They worked really hard to write a set of instructions on how to make the perfect… nurse, vet, firefighter, game designer, policer officer or astronaut, then completed a step by step drawing of Read more