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Year 2 had a workshop with local artist Charlotte Eldred last week. In Art this term Year 2 are focusing on portraits. During the workshop with Charlotte they improved their doodling skills and created different portraits using a doodling style.
Here are some of Charlotte’s examples:
Here the children are completing their art work:
Our fabulous, favourite local artist has been visiting us again. This time Charlotte has created a fantastic art time-line for our children to refer to as they learn about different eras and artists. It’s amazing!
Our final piece of our artwork inspired by Piet Mondrian…
We finished off the term by finalizing our masterpieces and using all of the skills we have learnt over the last few weeks. We have looked at primary colours and how to make them and researched different pieces created by Piet. We loved the block prints and the effect this created. We decided to make our own block prints using electric tape and use our knowledge of primary colours to mix and pour our paints! The children were fantastic at holding their brushes with great skill and trying to keep their paintings within the lines-quite a skill! They all looked fabulous and individual despite the common inspiration! You can see these fabulous pieces showcased in our classroom on our ‘moving art gallery’…it has wheels!!!
We love getting muddy in F1. Today Malik really enjoyed exploring how we can paint with mud. I think the smile says it all!
We’ve been inspired by the cold weather to create some beautiful Winter art work.
Click on the link below to see how it was created…
We have been busy this week learning all about our focus artist of the term Piet Mondrian! Born in 1872 (a long long time ago!) and a pioneer of abstract art Piet styled his artwork around bold colours using block prints to create art! The children loved researching his style and looking at various pieces he has created! This inspired our children to create some of their own pieces of art in a similar style! The children enjoyed mixing and making their own colours on a painting palette and worked together to produce some masterpieces!
Sometimes inspiration hits you and this leads to taking your shoes and socks off and getting a bit messy!
What great fun some of our budding little artists had this morning exploring Jackson Pollocks famous art style ‘drip painting!’ We had talked about some of Pollock’s famous work in in class and looked at how he painted with the music to express his feelings. We looked at how he decided to paint on the floor more freely rather than at tables or on an easel and this appealed to some of our children greatly! They couldn’t wait to create their own Pollock-style masterpieces and had so much fun splatting, pouring, dripping and flicking! The outcomes were quite marvelous and inspired us to all do a bit of Pollock drip painting for our upcoming Christmas cards! We can’t wait to show you!!!
We are so proud to have held our first Christopher Pickering Art Exhibition.
The whole school spent several weeks in preperation practising our art skills using different medias and exploring different artists work in order to create our art work. Some of us used collage, some used oil pastels, colour washing, paint, pencil and marker pens to name just some of the media in our final masterpieces. We drew on all the rt skills we have developed so far to help us create our fantastic art work and combined this with the influence of different artists including Tracey Savage, Van Gough, Paul Klee and Kandinsky.
We were all very proud when had the opportunity to visit the gallery and see our work displayed in frames and named just like true artists.
We hope that everybody who had chance to visit the gallery had a lovely time.
How can we paint using computers?
Now we are all confident at using laptops, this term we will be investigating how we can paint and replicate some famous artists techniques using http://paintz.app
This week, our task was to create a self-portrait. We had the opportunity to examine our prior knowledge and spend time exploring for what the different freehand tools do in the painting program, so that we could add individual creativity to our work.
The children worked in pairs, enabling shared experiences and modelling to their partner what the different tools in the painting program can do.
We were all able to talk about which tools we used in our paintings, which were easiest/hardest to use and which we liked best…the spray can tool was very popular!
We all succeeded in creating some wonderful pieces of artwork using our laptops.
