Category : Art & Design

F2 have been very busy studying and researching the artist ‘Jackson Pollock’ over the last term! Today the children had great fun creating their own Jackson Pollock inspired artwork by flicking and splatting their brushes to create very colourful and bright masterpieces!

The children had great fun mixing and making their own colours and enjoyed splatting paint whilst listening to some music! This definitely got our creative juices flowing and we had so much fun dancing, painting and expressing ourselves! Definitely our favorite artist technique studied so far!

When we looked in our special bag today, Harriet thought she spotted a bag of sugar but Charlotte said it was ‘powder’.  Eva guessed it was flour.  She was right.

Then we found a tub of salt.  Mrs Silverwood thought it might be sugar but tasted a little bit, it wasn’t very nice at all!  Elliot said that his Grandad likes salt.

We looked at the instructions, which told us how to make salt dough.  We thought it was a bit like play dough but, instead of putting it away when we have finished making things, we can bake them and keep them forever!

The children used their growing motor-skills to knead the dough and then roll it out.

Everyone will have to wait and see the finished article though!

There was only this toy in our special bag this morning but Harriett knew that it could spin round and round.  Who knew that it would change colour as it whizzed round though!

Click on the link below to see our fabulous Autumn painting, inspired by our toy…

Autumn Painting in F1

Click on the link below to see how the children created fantastic pictures of bears, firstly painting the circular shapes for the face and ears, then, once it was dried, adding details in black pen.

Creating bears in F1

Last week we all enjoyed our first ‘I Wonder Wednesday’.

Click on the link below to see how it went…

Painting Hares

This week in F1 we are learning all about the story Commotion in the Ocean.

In the creative area this morning we have enjoyed creating waves by mixing the colours green, blue and white to blend and create different shades of each colour.

Taking inspiration from all that we have learnt the past few weeks from the famous artist ‘Kandinsky‘ today we created some AMAZING Kandinsky themed tree pictures! We loved creating small concentric circles and patterns along our tree branches and loved exploring and talking about different colours we could use and blend! These trees look spectacular on show in our classroom!!!