Ritzy Rizzi Cityscapes

James Rizzi was a New York City pop artist. His zany, animated cartoon style, featuring animated buildings, rich detail and bright colours has a huge following. He became known for creating his art on any 3D surface he could find including an airplane, buildings and cars.

'The Happy Rizzi House', Braunschweig, Germany

We've created our Ritzy Rizzi inspired cityscapes with bright liquid watercolours. Enjoy!!

Zara

Hand Sculptures

We all 'talk' with our hands, some more than others!

This week we looked at messages we commonly send without words, using our hands to communicate by gesture. After looking at a number of widely recognised hand gestures (with a brief discussion about what might or might not be appropriate, and what accidents might sadly befall an inappropriate sculpture on it's journey to the kiln!) we created our clay hand sculptures.

Can you read our messages?

Ruby

Tetrahedron Sculptures-In-The-Round

We started this project with a discussion about sculpture-in-the-round, looking at the way it can be viewed from multiple viewpoints, and should therefore be interesting from every possible angle.

Marbled Moons

Some fabulously detailed drawings have emerged during this project, I am so impressed!!

Julianna

Thinking Outside The Box

A short activity to round out the last 15 minutes, and this fun little exercise in creative thinking fits the bill perfectly. I love doing these quick, challenging activities with the children - you can almost see their brains ticking over ....

Midnight Owls on a Marbled Moon

Did anyone see the recent 'blood moon' lunar eclipse?

A blood moon can only occur when the sun, Earth
and moon are perfectly aligned, with the Earth in the middle.

There is something quite beautiful about the red moon, isn't there?

We've created our 'blood moons' from paper we first marbled with shaving cream and watercolour.

Some of the children chose red, yellow and orange, to recreate the blood moon colours, while others went with turquoise, blue and purple for an eerily different 'blue moon' effect.

Shae

We finished with black marker line drawings using fine and ultra-fine permanent markers. With lots of detail, pattern and variation in line, they provide a beautiful counter-balance to the softly swirling colours of our moons.