Visual Arts 

Welcome to term 2!

Year 1/2

The Year 1/2s are doing print making this term. They will be making images of the sun. Their first task was to observe depictions of the sun from different cultures and write down what is the same and different about them. Then they created a drawing and a paper collage of a sun that nobody had ever seen before. Their next step is to create a monoprint of a sun image.

Foundation

The Foundation students will be completing a range of activities this term which focus on various art making skills. Their current project is to create a picture of a "hairy creature". They started by mixing coloured and white paint blobs together to make a pastel colour, then spread their paint across the page and used the edge of a palette knife to scratch in different lines to represent the texture of their chosen hairy creature. Their next step will be to create paper fringing to use as more texture of their creatures and collage the creature's face.

Year 3/4

The 3/4s are going to create an image of a person which represents an emotion. Their person will have a sculpted face which shows an emotional facial expression, a drawn body in a pose that matches the emotion. The background of the picture will be textured and painted to match the emotion also. The students started by practicing "bubble figures" - turning a stick figure into a bubble figure silhouette by adding shapes around the limbs. 

Year 5/6

The 5/6 students are also doing print making this term. They are exploring the textures, shapes and lines of mould and imagining what kind of microscopic organisms live in these microscopic landscapes. The students will product a collagraph print and add it to the class mural - a 2m diameter petri dish. The students started by practicing bubble prints and adding a bubble print of their own to our petri dish mural background. Next the students will make a sculpture of a petri dish mould using fabric and pipe cleaners. From there, they will record the organic lines in their work and use those lines to invent a microscopic creature. They will produce a collagraph of that creature and print it onto the class mural.