Blog by Tag: Art

This week our Nursery 1 children have been finger painting leaves on a tree. They added the colours, yellow, orange and red to represent the colour of the leaves we see in Autumn. Our Nursery 2&3 children have been collaging leaf templates using real leaves and other materials. We have been…

Year 3 have been using thick paint to create texture and marks to replicate Vincent Van Gogh’s style. Exploring his famous “Starry Night” was fun. 
 

Our 2 year olds have enjoyed cork printing this week with cork and paint. They looked at the different shapes they could make and were all very proud of their work. 
 

Year 3 developed their shading skills to get tints of colours. They added white to primary colours, then added white to change the tone. Their tints will be very useful for their colour mixing skills to be used during next week’s painting . 
 

Year 3 have been studying the work of Ruth Ringold and have started to create their own quilt pieces based on her work. They used cotton and fabric paint to design them. 
 

Year 3 have been studying Mandalas in Art and so we decided to create our own natural mandalas today. Gathering natural objects and arranging them in circular patterns was great fun. Nature is so colourful! 
We also consolidated our 2 D shape knowledge when we created different 2D shapes using…

Year 3 have been looking at artists Faith Ringgold and Alma Thomas. They studied their work and replicated their style in textiles, ink and collage. Mandala originated in India and is used as symbolism in Buddhist and Hindu faiths. They enjoyed creating their own mandalas and textiles.

Today in Reception, we had lots of fun learning about mixing colours. We talked about the new colours we could make, by mixing different colours together, and shared our ideas about what might happen when we combined them. The children were excited to see the changes and loved discovering the new…

In Art this week, Year 4 have been learning about tertiary colours. The children discovered that tertiary colours are created by mixing a primary colour with a neighbouring secondary colour, opening up a whole new world of colour possibilities.

Through experimentation, the children mixed paints…

Year 5 have been learning about reduction printing. First, they carved a pattern into a polystyrene tile. Then they printed with it. After that, they carved more of the pattern away and printed again. This process is called reduction printing because the tile gets smaller each time.

Their…

Our Nursery children have been creating their own self portraits in class. They chose how they wanted to do them with colours or on the iPad. Every half term the children will create another one to add to their star on the wall.

Nursery have been getting creative by gluing and sticking to make collage pictures and printing with paint and corks. We have lots of creative children, who are always very proud of their artwork.