Christmas Stationery

We designed our own print stamps and made our own Christmas cards and labels.  We also printed our own wrapping paper using potato prints.

Totem Poles

We have been looking at Native American totem poles, learning about what the different animals represented and why they were made.  We then designed our own.  Some people made totem poles to represent their family.  Others thought about animals linked in some way, birds, animals that live in the arctic, animals that live in the garden.
Once we had designed our totem pole we worked out how we were going to make it.  We covered a plastic bottle with modroc and then made wings and other features with cardboard and clay.  Finally we painted them.

More Face Flip Books

Face Flip Books

Now we have practiced drawing faces we are designing our own flip book, creating different faces and then dividing each page into 3 sections.

Faces

We've been learning how to draw faces, here are some of our self portraits.

Summer Holidays!

Back from our summer holidays, we made pictures of ourselves and family swimming underwater.  We used wax crayons to draw the people, thinking about what we look like when we are swimming.  We then painted all over with water colour and sprinkled salt into the wet paint to give a lovely watery effect.

Painting the Masters

Some of us looked at a favourite painting and reproduced it in acrylic on canvas.  Here is a Monet and Hockney.

Combined Hockney Picture

All the classes contributed to this recreation of Hockneys picture 'Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio'.  David Hockney has produced a lot of work dividing his images over several canvases.  We divided the image into 44 squares and pieced it together.  We used felt tip pens, water colour crayons, pastels and oil pastels.

David Hockney Yorkshire Landscapes

We have been looking at David Hockneys Yorkshire landscapes.  We loved his colours and bold patterns.  We made our own imaginary landscape using layers of paint, starting with water colour and then adding details and patterns with acrylic. 

Mosaics

Using our Matisse collages as a starting point everyone designed and made their own mosaic.  Some people fixed a mirror in the centre of their mosaic to use in our bedroom or bathroom!

Matisse Collages

We have been inspired by Matisse and his wonderful collages.  Some of us were lucky enough to visit the exhibition at the Tate, but we also looked at lots of images in books and catalogues.  We had a great session painting lots of pieces of paper in all our favourite colours and then the following week we made our own collages around the theme of the sea.

Observational Drawing

Every term we work on our observational drawing skills.  This time we drew a sculpture of 'Nipper' the dog.  We used charcoal and white chalk on grey card to depict the 3-demensional quality of the model.

Embroidery

It's always good to have an ongoing project that you can do when you fancy a break from other activities. This term everyone has been doing some embroidery, learning new stitches as we go along.

Rubber Stamps

We have designed and made our own set of rubber stamps and then made a box for them!