Category: Expressive Arts

This week we were incredibly excited to welcome a digital piano into our classroom. We are looking forward to using it to support our learning in expressive arts.

Over the next few weeks we will be creating self portraits using a variety of different media. Today we started by creating line drawings of our faces focussing on the proportions of our faces and the placing of our facial features.

Now that we have had a first attempt we are going to create another line drawing self portrait later in the week to improve our technique.

Previously we explored the art of Joan Miro and today we looked at the work of Wassily Kandinsky.

We learned that he liked to use colours and shapes to reflect emotions within his work.

Using this information we explored our own emotions, thought of the colours that reflected how we were feeling and created our own Kandinsky inspired pieces of work.

I wonder if you will be able to guess our emotions when the work is completed. Check back later in the week for our completed pieces of work……

Today we spent a lovely morning out in the warmth and sunshine. Well done to everyone who wore a sun hat and remembered sun cream.

We spent time studying our surroundings very carefully and were all really surprised at just how many different colours are in our environment right in front of us! We did some colour matching using some old supermarket brochures and found lots of matches!

After that we looked closely at daisies, then used a daisy to create some beautiful paintings. What a happy buzz there was this morning during our outdoor learning session. 🌼