Visual Arts

Foundation

Now that we are back after lockdown, the Foundation students are getting into their Arctic artworks that will eventually accompany the milk bottle igloo. Last week, the students watched a short video about 10 animals that live in the Arctic. Then they re-created some of the animals by tearing out coloured paper shapes and adding details with pencil. This is practice for when their final art piece which will be of an Arctic animal made with a paper body. 

Year 1/2 

The Year 1/2s unfortunately missed out of 2 art lessons due to lockdown! This week they are starting their grand project - making microworlds: a place for a micro-organism to live. In our last lesson, we watched videos of real micro-organisms interecting with their environment. Thus week we are looking to the artist Pip and Pop who makes fantastical universes to inspire our own work. We are also looking at photos of fungus and bacteria on fruit and petri dishes to understand their textures, colours and patterns. 

The first stage of making these micro-worlds is to paint a Styrofoam ball. We are going to use 2 primary colours which will blend to make 1 secondary colour. After the paint is dry we will glue the ball to a plate (like a petri dish) and decorate the surface of the ball with wires, pins, beads and fabric.

Year 3/4

The Year 3/4's have now completed one activity practicing positive and negative space, and cutting techniques. They are one-step closer to their bigger activity involving stencilling. This activity was made by folding a black piece of A4 paper in half and drawing half a symmetrical shape, then cutting it out and gluing the positive space (the SUBJECT) and the negative space (THE BACKGROUND) to a painted piece of A3 paper.

Year 5/6

The Year 5/6's are continuing their exploration of how to draw the human body in motion. So far this term they have looked at breaking the body into simple shapes that join together in different poses - making the figure easier to draw. Last week they were given a series of shapes to cut out and arrange in the same position as an Olympic athlete. Their next step in learning to draw the human body will be to start sketching real bodies posed in different ways.