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Term 4 Week 4

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Unfortunately this week was cut short- we made the difficult decision to suspend our classes due to the coronavirus. Hopefully we’ll be up and running again sometime soon!

Teal Class

Our Bronze Arts Award group grouted the beautiful mosaic coasters that they made with Muni last week. We’re looking forward to giving them a final polish once they’re fully dry!

Cyan & Indigo Class

Our Key Stage 3 & 4 artists worked on a monotone mountain landscape. We used Indian ink, drawing ink, watercolour and bleach, creating a variety of marks on the paper. We also produced a sheet of black texture using printing ink and a roller, ready to use when we introduce collage elements to the landscapes.

Term 4 Week 3

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Maroon & Turquoise Class

Our reception, year 1 and year 2 artists finished their beautiful rainbows today! We also drew to music and used Brusho and cling film to create some patterned paper for next week’s projects.

 

Amber, Magenta & Violet Class

Our year 3 and 4 artists had a go at shaving foam marbling! It was a lot of fun, if rather messy. We’ve created lots of patterned paper to use in future collages.

Jade & Emerald Class

Our year 5 and 6 artists produced some patterned paper for future projects using shaving foam marbling, traditional marbling and watercolour washes. 

 

Cyan & Indigo Class

Our Key Stage 3 and 4 artists combined the gesso experiments from last week to create compositions. We used masking tape, more gesso, scissors and PVA glue to alter the appearance of the pieces. We then added found imagery taken from magazines.

Term 4 Week 2

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Maroon & Turquoise Class

This week our reception, year 1 and year 2 artists made beautiful rainbows!

 

Amber, Magenta & Jade Class

Our year 3 and 4 artists made beautiful bugs using assemblage techniques! We cut the main shapes from cardboard, painted them, then added various details using a variety of different bits and pieces. 

 

Jade & Emerald Class

Our year 5 and 6 artists created collage pieces based on the work of Jen Stark. We got some great results!

 

Cyan & Indigo Class

Our Key Stage 3 and 4 artists experimented with using gesso (coloured with paint) to create textured backgrounds for future collages. We painted layers of gesso and manipulated the surface in different ways. We’ll be using the results in next week’s session.

Term 3 Week 6

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Maroon & Turquoise Class

Our reception, year 1 and year 2 artists finished off their glue pictures this week! The glue had dried to leave shiny black outlines, which the artists filled in using soft pastels. We practised blending, and discussed warm, cool, complementary and analogous colours as we worked.

 

Amber, Magenta & Violet Class

Our year 3 and 4 artists added soft pastel to their beautiful sea turtles!

 

Jade & Emerald Class

Our year 5 and 6 artists completed their glue drawings too- theirs had the theme of minibeasts. We got some lovely results!

 

Cyan & Indigo Class

Our Key Stage 3 and 4 artists finished their dummy books this week! We’ve been busy developing short picture book ideas, inspired by traditional tales. It was really interesting to see the different interpretations!

Term 3 Week 5

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This week we’ve been drawing with glue! This will be a two week project- next week when the glue is dry, we’ll add soft pastel to our designs.

Maroon & Turquoise Class

Our reception, year 1 and year 2 artists worked on an abstract design with the theme ‘taking a line for a walk’. We practised in our sketchbooks using pencils first, and aimed to include lots of different curves and changes of direction.

 

Amber, Magenta & Violet Class

Our year 3 and 4 artists have been basing their glue designs on sea turtles! We’ll be thinking about some under-the-sea colour combinations next week.

 

Jade & Emerald Class

Our year 5 and 6 artists were inspired by bugs for their designs!

Term 3 Week 4

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This week, our focus has been on colour!

Maroon & Turquoise Class

Our reception, year 1 and year 2 artists used oil pastels to create colourful cockerels inspired by Picasso’s ‘Le Coq’!

 

Amber, Magenta & Violet Class

Our year 3 and 4 artists learned about warm and cool colours and analogous colours. We practised blending colours in our sketchbooks, then created a warm and cool picture.

 

Jade & Emerald Class

Our year 5 and 6 artists got to grips with the art of sgraffito. We produced some lovely results using this technique with oil pastels!

Term 3 Week 3

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This week we focused on texture!

Maroon & Turquoise Class

Our reception, year 1 and year 2 artists felt some different objects and thought of words to describe their textures. We practised showing different textures such as fluffy, spiky and smooth in our sketch books using soft pastels. We then read the story ‘Hair Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy’ and drew dogs, using some of the techniques we’d practised to show the texture of the fur.

 

Amber, Magenta & Violet Class

Our year 3 and 4 artists practised showing tones and textures with charcoal. We used our skills to create drawings of pandas!