This week, all of our classes had a go at decoupage. This form of collage uses very thin types of paper such as tissue paper and newsprint to decorate an object. Each student had the initial of their name made from papier mache. Some of us used a special kind of decoupage paper called Decopatch, whilst others used regular tissue paper or cut pieces from comics. The results were great!

Amber & Turquoise Class

Our Reception, year 1 and year 2 artists made the most of the sunny weather to gather some natural materials for our tree collages this week. We drew around our hands and cut them out to make the trunk and branches of our trees, and then added a combination of natural materials and patterned paper to create the foliage.

Magenta & Violet Class

The year 3 and 4 artists grouted their mosaic coasters this week. They looked great! We’ll give them a final polish when the grout is fully dry. We also made stained glass effect collages by layering tissue paper onto a piece of acetate. We added silhouetted details using black card. The images looked really effective against the window with the light shining through them.

Maroon & Emerald Class

The year 5 and 6 artists also grouted their coasters. They did a great job! We then had a go at some 3D collage techniques, creating relief sculptures using strips of paper. The students came up with some really creative ways to manipulate the paper to make interesting structures.

Amber & Turquoise Class

This week the reception, year 1 and year 2 artists made collage portraits of dogs and cats, based on the work of contemporary American artist Denise Fiedler. We learnt how to make a basic dog portrait, and then used our new skills to come up with our own animals. Our creations had lots of character!

Magenta & Violet Class

This week our year 3 and 4 artists tried their hand at mosaics! We chose different colours of 2cm x 2cm glass tiles and laid them out on a paper grid to help us come up with a design for a coaster. Once we’d finalised our patterns we transferred the tiles to a piece of MDF, using PVA glue to fix them in place. The tiles come on a sheet of brown paper, the remainder of which we’ll soak off once the glue is dry. We will be finishing our mosaics off next week with grout.

Maroon & Emerald Class

The year 5 and 6 artists also created mosaic coasters, and will be finishing them off next week!

This week, each class worked on a collage in response to the fantastic designs created by artist Amber Locke. Amber arranges fruit and vegetables into vibrant compositions (see below!) In our versions, we used dried foods such as lentils, peas, seeds and pasta. 

Amber & Turquoise Class

We arranged our dried food onto hexagonal paper- our patterns looked great when we put them all together!

Magenta & Violet Class

We used the dried food to decorate various shapes cut from mountboard. We needed a lot of patience and perseverance but the results were great!

Maroon & Emerald Class

We worked on our own designs, choosing beans that we thought would work well in our images.