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Last week, we explored pattern. After creating a spirit creature, many students found it difficult to create a repeating pattern on the ‘skin’ of their creature. So, this week, we explored how to create a repeating pattern and how to build on a motif to create a complex pattern. We asked, what is a pattern? …
Prep Last week students embarked on a treasure hunt! Artists are curious about the world they live in. They find and collect things and sometimes just keep them until they find a use for them. Artists love to play around with the materials they find. Finding and collecting objects to use in an artwork is …
These drawings were of characters and creatures, both real and imagined. In week 5, students created a background or setting for the little sculptures that they will make when we are back at school. When designing these backgrounds, they thought about the creatures or characters they designed at school. Students wondered where these characters lived …
Last week, both on-line and when we returned to school, we furthered our exploration into our understanding of the body through the paper cut out drawings of Henri Matisse! Last week we drew the body inspired by Picasso and his continuous line drawings. This week we were inspired by the paper cut out collages of …
From 2D to 3D- Wood, Wire, Paper craft: Expressing ideas through experimentation and play The aim is to provide a great starting point to play and experiment using paper and a variety of construction materials, and just to draw for the sake of drawing, and make for the sake of making, using ideas from life …
Building on our experiences of working with complementary colours and examining the colour palette of David Hockney, last week we further developed the ideas behind our knowledge of the colour wheel. During on-line learning, we explored David Hockney’s interpretation of chairs. Back at school, we further explored the everyday, through a selection of still life …
Over the past few weeks we have explored Sonia Delaunay’s work and examined her interest in shape and colour. We have explored primary colours, secondary colours and complementary colours through the mediums of painting and collage. We have understood the relationships between colours and how all colours have an effect on those around them. This …
‘Colour is the skin of the world’ Sonia Delaunay – abstract artist (Tate, London) ‘About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those I had seen in the houses of Russian peasants. When it was finished, the arrangement of …
This week we will be exploring a collaborative approach to painting using shape and colour to create both a large scale and smaller individual piece. This exercise in painting examines the accidental as a means of exploring possibilities…. Students were introduced to the idea of the circle. Circle, shape and colour became the focus for …
: Painting, Shape and Colour -Exploring and Experimenting using Paint Last term, when collaging, we realized the subtleties of colour and texture we were able to achieve through layering painted papers on top of one another. Through this process we developed a curiosity for layering, painted line and the wonderful world of colour mixing. This …