Today Class 14 painted in the style of Claude Monet, a French impressionist painter. We used powder paints to paint his famous poppies painting. We focused on using quick, thick paint strokes without too much detail. Have a look at our paintings below.
This half term we are studying the painting ‘The Scream’ by Edvard Munch. This is a very famous piece of expressionist artwork that was painted in 1893. We started by completing an analysis of the painting, and saying how we felt about it. We then practised several skills with oil Read more…
Year 5 looked at architectural art work and the design of buildings. We researched the artist Meha Hindocha to inspire us to create our own artwork this half-term. Children planned their own art work looking at architecture from around Manchester and chose colours to make the background stand out. Have Read more…
We’ve been inspired by Vincent van Gogh and we’re building up to creating our own homages to his infamous Starry Night. We’ve been honing our skills with varying textures of broken and solid lines, and developing our pastel techniques.
We have been learning how to make new colours in our Art lessons by mixing blue, red and yellow. Children have enjoyed exploring this further in the provision mixing lots of different colours and shades!
We are amazed by Class 6’s finished LS Lowry paintings. We think they have done a fantastic job and are sure you will too.
In Art, we have been studying Andy Warhol, the 1960s pop-artist and this week practised the skill of tracing images to copy them. This is so we know how to make three exact copies of our final piece or work. It wasn’t easy, but we persevered and got there in Read more…
Reception have been learning all about the artist Jackson Pollock. Pollock is famous for his drip painting techniques, so we had a go at making our own splatter paintings.
Reception have been practicing spirals for their art project this week. We practiced lots of different sizes on big paper and they created some fantastic trees in the style of Gustav Klimt’s ‘Tree of Life’.