Art & Design – P5.16 Blog 2023/24

Colour searching, matching and analysing

What a super morning we spent searching the ECO garden and the side of the school for as many colours as we could find!

We used some old supermarket magazines to do some colour matching and were amazed at just how many different colours we could match. It became quite a competition to see who could match the highest number of colours on their page!

After playtime we went back outside and studied some of the flowers very carefully. We created our own daisies, using only daisies to paint!

Creating mini beasts

After analysing mini beasts last week and seeing how they are made up of different segments, with legs and antennae, we created our own today!

We spent time looking at some of the plants growing at the back of the pitch and decided we could pick a very small amount of them without destroying the area. After that we worked in pairs to create some mini beasts on our display board.

After playtime we each created our own mini beast by gluing natural materials on to a piece of black paper. I am sure you will agree they look fabulous! Once we were happy with our own mini beasts, we could explore and create another one on the grass. What a busy day!!!

Colour!

We had lots of fun during our art time today. Our focus was on the use of colour, including colour mixing, and how this has been explored by various artists. We attempted to replicate the work of the artists Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Joan Miro. We rotated around the stations in our houses working both independently and as part of a group. We used lots of different media including paint, oil pastels, pen and pencil. It was a very busy and messy morning!

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