Blog by Tag: Art

In Art this week, Year 4 have been learning about tertiary colours. The children discovered that tertiary colours are created by mixing a primary colour with a neighbouring secondary colour, opening up a whole new world of colour possibilities.

Through experimentation, the children mixed paints…

Year 5 have been learning about reduction printing. First, they carved a pattern into a polystyrene tile. Then they printed with it. After that, they carved more of the pattern away and printed again. This process is called reduction printing because the tile gets smaller each time.

Their…

Our Nursery children have been creating their own self portraits in class. They chose how they wanted to do them with colours or on the iPad. Every half term the children will create another one to add to their star on the wall.

Nursery have been getting creative by gluing and sticking to make collage pictures and printing with paint and corks. We have lots of creative children, who are always very proud of their artwork. 
 

Year 3 have been practicing their painting techniques and learning about how Vincent Van Gogh used impasto paint, line and blue shades to create “A Starry Night”.

They used flour to thicken their paint and then painted in the style of Van Gogh. 

Year 5 studied the famous painting Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh.
They looked carefully at the colours and how the flowers were drawn. They then created their own versions, using oil pastels to produce deep, vibrant colours. Everyone was very pleased with the end result.

Year 6 had a lovely morning learning at Florence Mine learning about the mining industry , how it has been a huge part of the development of Egremont and inspiration to local artists.

Year 2 have been studying the artwork of Beth Krommes in their art lessons. They have been looking carefully at how she uses a range of marks to create images from nature including waves. They thoroughly enjoyed using paint and oil pastels to create their worn version of the artwork…

Year 6 have been learning how to draw a self-portrait. They had to consider scale and proportion then used different sketching techniques to create areas of light and dark. A great effort by everyone! 

Over the last few weeks, Nursery have enjoyed being out in all kinds of weather and have been working very hard at creating some outdoor artwork like the artist Andy Goldsworthy. We collected all sorts of different natural materials like leaves, sticks, pebbles and flowers to use to create our…

In Art, Year 2 has been learning about Aboriginal patterns. They have been finding out the colours the Aboriginals used to represent different elements and emotions. In the r artwork they used these colours along with some of the traditional symbols the Aboriginals used in their artwork to…

Year 2 finished their art unit by creating a reconstructed collage painting in a similar style to those created by the artist Kate Vernon. They combined a paint background and images of people and nature to give their work a textural quality. They had great fun selecting the right images for their…