Falling .... Just Fooling!

Our last lesson of the term, and we've been busy experimenting with more optical illusions.

Kate

Op Art (or Optical Art) uses line, contrast and often very precise mathematical composition to 'trick' the eye so that the viewer perceives different visual effects such as movement, warping, swelling or even hidden images.

What Do You See?

Zoe

This week we've ventured into the world of optical illusion. Our inspiration is the famous 'Rubin Vase' illusion, published in 1915 by psychologist Edgar Rubin.

Fantastic Foil Figures

I love the children's action figures which they crafted with aluminium foil over a pipe-cleaner armature. We have dancers, gymnasts, super heroes and basketball players ...... even a few mermaids!

This is a very challenging project, and the children have all done so well. Mounted onto a metallic oil-pastel background, our foil action figures are so expressive, and look fantastic!

Ruby's 'Mermaid on a Rock'

Cup-Cake Crazy

Our finished ceramic cupcakes ...

We used moulds and pinch pots to construct these functional ceramic cupcake boxes, which are a 3D extension of our Pop Art Cake pictures from earlier this term, influenced by Pop artist Wayne Thiebaud.

The drying and firing process takes a few weeks, but the finished results are amazing, and well worth the wait!!

Sofia

Minecraft Mania

This project is definitely a winner! When I asked who knew Minecraft every hand shot up!!

For those of us less familiar, Minecraft is a computer game that is all about placing and breaking blocks. It involves adventure, battling scary things, visiting interesting lands and a whole lot more. Above all, the children love it, which makes it an excellent source of inspiration for our art this week.

Although I had a 'plan', the children were very keen to develop their own ideas, so we went with that! Who am I to stand in the way of such enthusiasm?

We built our pictures within a grid base to help us with placing our blocks and which also helped us to create pixelated backgrounds, then added colour with soft pastel.

Bryson

Ants At Home

A simple but very effective black marker drawing, imagining what the Ants might get up to after a hard day's work!

We've paid particular attention to using a variety of line type and scale to create interesting pattern in the negative spaces between the ant house rooms.

I am always so impressed with my students' imagination, which you can see when you look closely at the details!

Lilly