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We created one line self-portraits, where we weren’t allowed to take our pencil off the page. Before tracing kindness poems around the pines to create a different effect. After this we painted or used collage to create a background before sticking our traced outlines over the top.
Mrs Atkinson from Framwellgate Comprehensive came to visit Y6 again to give them the opportunity to do some more mono-printing. The children shaded Anglo-Saxon and Viking images over the top of ink. This led to the ink pressing into the other side of the page creating the prints. The children enjoyed it and the results were fantastic!
In Art we are exploring Drawing and have been observing retro futuristic images. We chose a section of one of the images to replicate using different media. We are excited to continue this next week!
After looking at artwork from the space race, Year 6 chose a part of an image from different styles of artwork and created 4 different images using various materials such as oil pastels, collage, watercolours and sketching.
After studying the work of artists such as David Hockney, Paula Rego and Fiona Rae the children recreated some of their pieces and used them as inspiration for their own artwork. Here are some examples.
We are learning how to create tints and shades to make our paintings look 3D. The children are working so hard on their painting skills at the moment. Here are two examples of wonderful painting skills. Well Done!
Seals Class have really enjoyed their Art and Design topic this half term of drawing. We have learnt some mark making terms and applied these in our sketches. We used a range of objects to touch and and feel and describe the textures then we attempted to add the texture to our drawings.
We have been looking at art work by Kathe Kollwitz, we have made our own pieces of work in her style.
In Art this week we were exploring facial expressions and emotions and attempting to replicate this with marks. We made different expressions with our friends and observed how our face/ features changed.
We then tried this with different posture too, we used Quentin Blake, the illustrator, as a basis for our work.
In Penguins class this week we have been exploring different textures by making marks using charcoal. Our class had so much fun having the chance to use charcoal this afternoon!
Year 3 had so much fun on their visit to Hamsterley Forest even if their socks got a little soggy! They produced some fantastic quilts made from the natural materials found in the forest along with flower crowns in the environmental art session.
Year 3 have been exploring mono printing this week. The children painted onto acetate and created their own designs and then printed into their sketch books. I have to say their sketch books are looking fantastic amazing with all of their wonderful pieces created this year.
This week we have been learning to use watercolours with geometric shapes. The children had to balance the amount of water to paint used in order to ensure the paint spread over the paper correctly.
This skill will help us with our final watercolour piece which will based on the Durham skyline
Year 6 have been looking at the work of abstract artist Ben Nicolson. This week we used basic shapes to recreate images.
We collected samples of colour to show there are many different tints and shades of a colour.
We added detail to dragon scales using watercolours. We learned how to create lighter tints and darker shades.
The children began by gluing hessian fabric into our sketch books before we created our block paint designs.
Our final pieces of art. The children painted with anything they could get their hands on that wasn’t a paint brush to create these wonderful final pieces. We used things like sponges, glue spreaders, newspaper, toy cars, string, straws, stickle bricks and even our fingers and hands.
