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Year 2’s art enquiry this week was – How do we make new colours?
We revisited our knowledge of primary colours in Year 1 and made secondary colours. We mixed different combinations of red, yellow and blue to make orange, green and purple.
Then we mixed our secondary colours to make tertiary colours! There were lots of different shades across the room!
We were proud of our colour mixing skills!
The children in F1 have had lots of fun creating some bear paintings today.
Within our art lessons this half term, Y6 have been focusing on creating depth and accurate proportions through the use of one-point perspective drawing techniques. In this particular lesson, we practised drawing the Humber Bridge thinking about the ‘vanishing point’ and how to ensure everything led to the one-point perspective. Great work year 6!
This week, Year 1 have been working on developing their trackpad skills.
We now understand the main components of a computer – screen, keyboard, mouse, trackpad – so we looked at different mice and how some look different but all perform the same function, such as the trackpad.
All of the children were able to switch on their laptop, log in using their QR code and find the artist app that we were going to use – with a little help of course.
At first, some found it a bit tricky to select colours and use the trackpads to draw … but all of the children showed determination and perseverance, and were able to produce some masterpieces! The children, and myself, were very proud of what they had achieved.
We even walked around at the end, like we were at an Art Gallery, to look at everyone’s amazing creations!
We loved the bold colours and lines used by the Scottish Artist Steven Brown and we think you may have seen some of his famous images before, like this one taken from his website.
Brandon drew some beautiful animal images and then used colour to give them a Steven Brown inspired feel. Great work Brandon!
Raphael enjoyed using bold colours to bring his wonderful elephant sketch to life. Well done Raph!
This week in art we have started to create our own seascape based on the work of John Ward.
We have spent the last few weeks looking at how John Ward uses cold colours and we practised creating tints and tones with these colours.
We then spent time discussing how using different medias in our art can create layer and texture. We practised this technique using oil pastels, paint and PVA glue. After seeing how these medias work together we were ready to create our own seascapes using these medias.
We have started our own artwork by using oil pastels. We have thought about the lines we need and the shading we can add. We have also thought about how we can use paint and PVA glue to create texture.
Our first layer is beginning to look like the start of some fantastic seascape pictures. We cannot wait to add our paint and PVA next week.
We’ve had great fun exploring what happens when you mix blue and yellow together.
Reuben and Isabel knew that it would make green!
We have been painting jungle leaves and making marks on them with mint-stems.
Year 3/4’s Doodle Club got off to a good start yesterday. We have been inspired by our visiting artist, Charlotte Eldred. The children were really focussed on their tasks.
In art this term, we have looked at the work of Nick Rowland and the work of JMW Turner. We have compared their work and discussed the different techniques they have used.
Nick Rowland has created colourful volcano pictures using different art techniques such as colour washing and splattering. JMW Turner has created an eruption of Mount Vesuvius using more traditional techniques including sketching and oil painting.
We have sketched our own pictures of Mount Vesuvius, taking inspiration from JMW Turners work. We have ensured we thought about the light and dark shades in our pictures and the dark and light lines as well as thick and thin lines. We used a selection of sketching pencils to create our sketches, we then added detail and darker lines with charcoal.
We added an eruption to our sketch of Mount Vesuvius. We used Nick Rowland as our inspiration for this and used a splattering technique to show the lava erupting from the volcano.
Over the past 2 weeks, Year 2 have been looking at tints and tones in our art lessons.
We began by looking at seascapes created by John Ward. We discussed how his art uses cold colours. We recalled the different cold colours we had used in Year 1 and identified these in the painting by John Ward.
We then used some cold colours to create our own colour palates. We added white paint to our original paint to create tints and we added grey to create tones.
We then looked at the seascapes created by Nicholas Hadeed, these used warm colours. We again recalled the different warm colours we used in Year 1.
We used warm colours to create our own palate of warm tints and tones. Again, we added white paint to create tints and grey paint to create tones.
