Category : Art & Design

Over the past three afternoons, Year 5 have been learning all about our new topic for the term: Anglo Saxons and Vikings. The main subject we have been discussing is the Anglo Saxon and Viking shields: analysing genuine and replica images of shields and gathering conclusions about what the Vikings were like, based on the fact they had shields.

The children participated in a craft activity then designed their own shields and used paper mache to create a boss in the centre of their shields. They then painted their chosen design onto their templates. Here are some photographs of our designs.

In Year 1, the children developed a wide range of art and design techniques using colour, pattern, texture, line and shape. First they explored different lines and patterns such as curves and zigzags.

In the next lesson we made observational drawings of buildings in the local area. We chose to focus on The Deep and the Humber Bridge as the children were familiar with these buildings.

Next we introduced the artist David Hockney to inspire the children to create their own piece of art in his style.

Here are some of the final pieces. To create this the children used the skills they have previously learnt and a combination of pencils and chalk pastels. 

We have come to the end of our drawing and printing unit of work where we have been learning a range of drawing techniques using a ranges of grades of pencil and charcoal. We have learnt to shade, to hatch, cross hatch and smudge to create texture and to show the illusion of forms of light the we applied these  methods to create drawings of some of Hull’s well known landmarks.

We then looked at local artist Tracy Savage and explored her works and styles she uses to create her landscape pieces. Then using inspiration from her, we created our own drawings using some of our favourite Hull landmarks.

Once we had drawn this in pencil and charcoal we then created some imprints on polystyrene tiles and printed them using printing inks!

After this we worked in pairs and created a Brusho backwash to then create a  collaborative painting using our printed tiles.

This week Year 2 have completed their final art piece based on the work of Alexander Calder.

We looked at sculptures that Alexander Calder has produced and how some of these are are hanging pieces which can move in the wind. We talked about how a sculpture is a 3D piece of art and how we could create something similar.

We started by exploring different materials to make 3D shapes. We used paper, card and straws to create our shapes and worked together to join some of these shapes together to make a simple structure.

Year 2 discussed the shapes they had practised which could be incorporated into the final piece of art work. they also discussed materials and thought wire would work well with the paper and card to create a hanging 3D sculpture which would move, inspired by those Alexander Calder produced.

In groups, Year 2 produced shapes using paper and card in primary colours to hang on their sculpture. They also used craft wire to create the hanging effect of all the pieces on the structure ensuring there was patterns incorporated similar to the ones they identified in Alexander Calder’s paintings.

Year 2 are very proud of their finished sculpture.

This week in art, Year 2 have been looking at the colours Alexander Calder uses in his paintings.

We noticed he likes bright colours such as blue, yellow and red. We got to talk about these and found out they were called primary colours.

Year 2 talked about how these primary colours could be mixed to make a different colour. We discovered these new colours are called secondary colours.

We mixed our primary colours to see what secondary colours we could create.

Blue + Yellow = Green

Red + Blue = Purple 

Yellow + Red = Orange