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Felling all autumnal in our Hub!
Our little treasures have been busy little Hubbers making handprints for our seasonal tree, gathering leaves for their autumn crafting activities, making autumn hats, wreaths and stained glass hedgehogs.
We are loving the season of autumn already.
Today, we looked at the same piece by Alexander Calder but our focus was on skill development. We worked on how we held our brush, how we applied the colour and how we used small controlled strokes to cover an areas effectively with colour.
This week in art we have been learning about a local artist called Tracy Savage from Hornsea who has painted lots of paintings of our local area including ‘The Fruit Market’ in Hull and ‘Norwood’ in Beverley.
We spend some time looking at her work and finding the subjects of her paintings and the style in which she paints.
We used our knowledge of the drawing techniques we have learned so far this unit (shading, using pressure, hatching and cross hatching) to recreate one of her paintings using pencil in preparation for next lesson where we will be creating our own Tracy Savage inspired drawing of landmarks in Hull.
As Artists, we looked at a piece by Alexander Calder called ‘Les Masques’ which was painted in 1970.
We discussed the bold use of shapes and colours and shared our opinions on this piece. We then enjoyed creating our own interpretation.
We listened to feedback and worked hard to improve our techniques.
Today in art we have been using sketch pencils and charcoal to carry out observational drawings of Hull’s well known landmarks such as The Deep and The Humber Bridge.
We used the skills we learned last lesson and applied them to our drawings. With the Humber Bridge, we used different pressures to shade in darker areas and used hatching and cross hatching for shadows.
When we used the charcoal, even though some of us got very messy, we used smudging to create different effects on the buildings.
In our art and design lesson, we have been learning about different media to draw with.
We have been looking at sketch pencils and what H and B stand for and what differences they make when we use them on our work – we found that ‘H’ stands for hard and ‘B’ stands for black and that a 6B pencil produces darker lines that a B pencil.
We investigated how add texture and tone by shading, through the skills of applying varying pencil pressure and how this changes the appearance of the marks on the paper. We also learned how to carry out hatching and cross hatching and how these different methods create different textures.
Our Sensory Learners have designed the most wonderful seasonal placemats using the leaves that they gathered on their ‘sensory nature walk’.
We love them and can’t wait to use them during autumn for our ‘Communication Breakfasts’.
Our Sensory Learners created some beautiful collage portraits in memory of our wonderful Queen.
We demonstrated good sitting, looking and listening, turn taking and scissor skills whilst making our portraits.
We showed great interest in books about our Queen and were able to turn pages and enjoy the illustrations.
Our favourite part of the day was when we viewed a little film clip starring The Queen and Paddington Bear. Once again, demonstrating good sitting, looking and listening.
During our topic All About Me, we have been looking closely at our faces and hair colour through our mirrors.
We used our senses to observe different colours and textures to simulate our own hair.
We think we look really handsome.
