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WW2 Portraits

8/12/2018

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Festive Tissue Paper Trees

8/12/2018

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My wonderful Year 3's had a great time making some festive art work. We started with a watercolour wash over our background and on a separate sheet we stuck down lots of different coloured tissue paper. When this was dry we cut out some triangular trees and finished of with some chalks. 
​Here are the results, so lovely and colourful!
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Ancient Egypt

13/11/2018

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Today was a teaching day for me.
The current Year 4 topic is Ancient Egypt so I asked the children to work in groups of 3 to produce an Ancient Egyptian character or God.
They worked so beautifully together, you can tell by the standard of work they have produced.!
The key to this challenge was getting the proportions right and after a few attempts they got there. The children are also used to working on A4 paper so they tend to draw quite small. We used rolls of lining paper and these figures each stand at around 1 meter tall. I think they all came away with a bit more confidence in their own ability and on International Kindness Day it was great to see them all work together. 
Well done Year 4!!
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Potions!

12/11/2018

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The Year 3 Topic last half of term was Potions!
This was a great opportunity for the children to learn about colour mixing and how to create lots of new effects with watercolour paint.

Challenge one - Limited to the primary colours and black and white only, the challenge for my Year 4's was to create 100 different colours. This gave the children a good basic understanding of the colour wheel and of colour mixing.
​A few of them learnt that if you don't clean your brush and your water jar out regularly, you may just end up with a few sludgy browns but once that was grasped the end result was quite lovely with a huge variety of colours! In fact some of their work was even displayed at the art exhibition at Bourne Hall.
​Here are their colour mixing results!
Challenge two - Using their new knowledge of colour mixing, we then looked at how we can create different effects with watercolour paint. The children had fun splodging, spraying and painting with the help of a few extras such as wax crayons, rock salt and water. 
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Challenge three - The children's final challenge was to create their own potion. They needed to use their knowledge of colour mixing and mark making as well as thinking about which colours and textures would suit their potion. For example if you wanted to turn your teacher into a frog your potion would probably be green and lumpy!!
Here are a few of the finished pieces, needless to say they did a great job!

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The Starry Night - Van Gogh

12/11/2018

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The Year 5 topic last term was Stargazing so I decided that it would be a good opportunity to study Van Gogh's 'The Starry Night'. 

The children were given a brief introduction into the life of Van Gogh and some of the important principles in his work. One being colour theory.

Did you know that Van Gogh used balls of wool to help him to decide what colours would look good together?

We looked at primary colours and how they can be mixed to create secondary colours. How to create tints and shades, we also looked at opposite colours and complimentary colours.
We then looked at some mark making and how you can use a paintbrush to create different effects as well as trying out two different mediums.

In our final lesson each class recreated 'The Starry Night'. Each student had a small section of the painting and each form group used a different medium. One used watercolour paint, one used chalk pastels and one used collage.

The effect was stunning, they had absolutely grasped the mark making and the colour theory behind the piece. Their individual work was stuck together to create one large piece that is now displayed around the school.
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​The children can now make direct comparisons and evaluate which technique worked the best as well as understanding how to work as a team to achieve the same goal.

Here are a few example of their work which I am sure you will agree is pretty amazing!
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Contemporary Collage

9/11/2018

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One of the options for the Art Party events that I do is Contemporary Collage.
It is a really simple and effective way of creating art that you would happily hang on your wall, it is also something that you can easily get the kids involved with.

To start you need some good quality paper, watercolour paper works well as it has some texture but you can experiment with all sorts. You will also need your base paper or canvas.

You then need to create some lovely textures using various mark making skills. Watercolour, pen and ink, textured brushes, bleach and rock salt all work well. Keep the base paper or background relatively simple and free of too many distinctive marks. 

Work within a colour palette for the room or area that you would like your creation to live. I have used pinks and blues in this example with some black and white too as it goes really well with the pale grey I have on my walls. 

Once your papers have dried you need to think of a design idea. Floral's work well or you could go completely abstract! 

There are some fabulous collage artists on Instagram and Pinterest and you can find some much inspiration on these social platforms.

Get yourself some really sharp, precise scissors or a scalpel and cutting matt and get out a variety of shapes to suit your them. Place them on your background as you go.

When you have got the composition as you would like it you can then stick it down. I actually find that a good old fashioned glue stick works best as it does not tend to bubble the paper up. 

And there you have it, your creative, contemporary collage!! 
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Roll A Picasso - Year 4 Art Lesson

8/11/2018

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Pinterest is amazing for ideas when it comes to art lessons.
It was in fact my starting point for my lesson on Picasso. After giving the children a brief introduction into Picasso and Cubism I then asked then to roll a dice in order to decide what their Picasso portrait should look like. Each number corresponded to a different nose, mouth, eye, ear etc.
It meant that all their portraits were totally bonkers and totally unique which caused a few giggles in the classroom. I then allowed the children 3 items of there own design. They chose hair, moustaches, hats and so on.
Teamed with a lovely bright colour palette and a few little extras such as pom poms and feathers they had some fantastic results.
Here is a selection my Year 4's amazing work!!
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