Warm & Cool Color Weavings

It's the last lesson for Term 1, so we're doing something a bit special this week...

Using oil pastels on colored paper backgrounds, we've created two pictures that are the same - except for the colour!

Then we cut them up, and wove them back together.

Kaiden S (Yr 4)

Sophie C (Yr 3)

Finished Snake Coil Pots

Our long-awaited 'Year of the Snake' coil pots are fired and ready for the finishing touches! To see how we made them go my previous post 'Snake Coil Pots'.

We've finished them with water based house paint, and they've come up a treat - well done everyone!

Yasmin H (Yr 4)

Cool Street-Art Names

After discussing the difference between Street Art and vandalism (!) we played with iconic letter-writing styles that are instantly associated with street art, even when done on paper.

I've used this activity as a half lesson (the other half being used to paint our Coil Snake Pots). Although I would have liked more time, and some kids didn't quite get finished, they have still done great work. This is a technique that they can re-work and use any number of times in their independent art work.

Emma W (Yr 4)

Estelle T-F (Yr 4)

Going Cubist!!

Last week we traced photos onto acetate to create a semi-abstract self-portrait. This week we've used the same photos, but this time working directly onto the surface of the photo to abstract it using a cubist perspective.

Eadie O (Yr 1)

Amazing Self-Portraits on Acetate

These amazing pictures were created with a painted paper background and black marker drawings on acetate. Before beginning we looked at examples and discussed the difference between realism (life-like), semi-abstract (altered, but the original subject is still recognizable). We visualized a realism-abstract continuum - on one end is art as realistic as we can make it, on the far end is totally abstract - so changed or totally divorced from the original inspiration that it is no longer recognizable. And in between are infinite levels of the semi-abstract.

This week we are using photos of ourselves as the starting point for a semi-abstract self portrait.

Chan N (Yr 3)

Bronte B (Yr 4)