This week, Year 4 had a visit from the illustrator Chris Mould. He told the children about how he became an illustrator, the books he has drawn for and some projects he has been working on. He has drawn the images for the book ‘The Iron Man’ which we read Read more…
We completed our final pieces of artwork today inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. We used resources we found outside to make our masterpieces. We could talk about the materials we used and evaluated our work as we went along. Fantastic effort Class 4!
This unit in Art, we have been studying Georgia O’Keeffe. This week, we have been practicing our observational drawing skills using real flowers. We focused on the shapes and lines that we could see in order to help us.
We have been learning about the artist Andy Goldsworthy this term. In our art lesson today we have been sketching some examples of Andy Goldsworthy’s artwork. In provision we have been using the natural materials to create our own Andy-inspired art.
Class 5 have been looking at a new artist called Andy Goldsworthy. We looked at the artist’s profile and we found out lots of interesting facts about him. We discovered that he didn’t use drawing materials and paper for his art, he used natural materials instead! He even used human Read more…
Class 8 have been practising drawing in the style of the Dutch artist Van Gough. I’m really impressed how they have created their own piece of artwork with a distinct style of the artist we all can recognise. Well done!
We have been drawing some fabulous portraits of Elfie this afternoon. Look at our budding artists!
Nursery have been learning about colours in Maths. We have been identifying objects of different colours and matching the same colours together.
In Art and Design, we have read ‘The Most Magnificent Thing’ by Ashley Spires. We have explored different materials and designed and created our own inventions using loose parts. Some children have made robots and special machines with different jobs. Some of the machines freeze time, make our teddies come Read more…
As part of our art project, we have been studying Wassily Kandinsky who is also an abstract artist. We have researched and completed a study about him, designed our own artwork and created some fantastic concentric circle painting using powder paints.