Category : Art & Design

For our Year 2 Summer Wow Day, children looked at photos of the Titanic. They then carefully sketched the outline of the Titanic and shaded it in using pencil.

After that, children looked at pieces of art work of the Titanic. We focussed on the beautiful sunsets and black silhouettes on different pieces of art, They then created their own backgrounds using oil pastels.

Then, the children drew the outline of the Titanic on paper and filled it in using black or grey oil pastels to create the silhouette of the ship. They cut these out and stuck them onto their backgrounds. They were extremely pleased with the outcome of their pieces of art.

In the past few art lessons, we have been learning all about  Street art, particularly Graffiti. We know that it is not vandalism if you are given permission to do it, so we have written some very good persuasive letters to Mrs. Marson to ask if we can graffiti the container on the playground!   We have learnt that cave art was the earliest form of graffiti and many artists today also do it to send a message or tell a story. We looked at a variety of examples of lettering and tags and were given the chance to design our own tag.

First, we experimented with different types of writing and wrote our the alphabet with a range of designs and colours using oil pastels.

Then we designed our tags! We had lots of ideas from Mr Z to using our initials.

Finally, we had a practice using the fabric paints on small pieces of fabric to develop our skills using the brushes and holding the fabric tight ready for next week when we create our          T-shirts.

In Art this term in Year 1 we have been studying how different colours make you feel before moving on to Pop Art and the work of Andy Warhol.

We started the topic by exploring primary and secondary colours we read the book ‘The colour Monster’ and discussed the feelings linked to each colour. The children identified that warm colours are associated with happiness and love and that some cool colours can be associated with feeling calm or sad. The children then produced 2 rainbows, one made up from a warm colour palette and one from a cool palette.

The following week we explored colours further, we initially identified the 3 primary colours then had a go at mixing our own secondary colours. We then produced some fabulous artwork using various paintbrushes to make different sized lines and patterns.

We then moved on to exploring who Andy Warhol is and what he was famous for. We learnt about the Pop Art genre and discussed the bright colours used within the paintings and prints.

We set up an art gallery in the classroom and the children were asked to identify which of the images were Andy Warhol’s artwork and explain why.

Following this the children then had a go at sketching and painting Andy Warhol’s famous Banana masterpiece. The children really enjoyed doing this and the results were great!

We then built up our final masterpiece over the next lessons, the children sketched modes of transport in an ‘Andy Warhol style’ before photocopying these 4 times. The children assembled the pictures together and painted 2 using the warm colour palettes and 2 using the cool colour palettes previously explored.

The results were incredible and the paintings have taken pride of place within the classroom!

Year 5 have been putting their sketching, cross-hatching and shading skills to create a portrait of a Viking warrior. The children carefully analysed similarities of some Viking images: long, un-kept hair, moustache and beard, Viking helmet, bushy eyebrows. They then put their knowledge into practice!

Here are some of our wonderful creations!