In Primary 6 we have been analysing the artwork of Vincent Van Gogh. In particular we have focused on his famous painting Starry Starry night.
We were challenged to use similar techniques used by the artist. We used a variety of media to create our own version of the famous painting.
We used curved lines for the wind, short straight lines for the sky and hatching for the buildings and the foreground.
I enjoyed using different brush strokes to create my painting
Ryan
I enjoyed using curved lines to represent the wind blowing
Sophie
We created scale drawings of the planets found within the Solar System. We used compasses to draw the planets based on their reduced radius. We used a website which scaled down the sun to 10,000cm (10m) which allowed us to work out the reduced diameter of the other planets. If the sun is 10m in diameter then Earth would be 4. 2 cm. We used our knowledge of the properties of circles and our measure skills to help us create a scale drawing of our Solar System.
I liked drawing the planets because it was a bit of art mixed in with maths. Ryan
I can now identify the diameter and radius of a circle. Julia
I enjoyed having the option of working with a peer because Jupiter was so big.
Codi-leigh
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