To paint freely it is best to bring in old painting togs or a big top to protect clothing.
Well said Scarlett!
Category Archives: Expressive Arts
A Feast for the P5s’ Senses – Textures, Colours, Sounds, Movement and Shapes!
The P5s, Mr Renshaw, Miss Brolls and four parent helpers went to the Scottish National Modern Art Galleries (MOD1 and MOD2) off Belford Road in Edinburgh on the 13th of September to take part in an Art Workshop and a tour around our national collections of modern art and enamelled and bejewelled works by the artist Raqib Shaw.
We split into two groups with Art Educators Poppy and Heather
and headed
outdoors to explore the sculptures and question, “What is Art?” We went onto the Charles Jencks’ landform, looked at Reclining Figure by Henry Moore and touched Conversation with Magic Stones by Barbara Hepworth.
The childrens’ responses were fascinating. What interested them was very different and they recorded their focus of interest with our i-pads. They then selected from these and used Pic-collage and Book Creator apps to make photo-journals of the day.
Then we took part in using our imaginations and making sculptures ranging from wind turbines, a fox linked to a carving in the artscape, faces within faces, castles, and other ideas based on conversations, digital images or their imaginations. It was fantastic to see them so immersed in the creative task that some children didn’t want to leave to go for a sneak tour at the Emil Nolde colourful paintings exhibition.
Lunch was outside amongst the artworks and a temporary art playground where you are encouraged to touch the works. The Sun Gods were kind and we enjoyed our picnics on the benches.
Then it was inside to see the Tesco Bank Competition winners to give us inspiration for next year and a look at the incredibly detailed artworks by Raqib Shaw. Utterly mesmerising but don’t just take my word for it. Ask your child what inspired them the most from the day and what was their favourite artwork and why.
Most of the two modern a
rt galleries are free and you are welcome to picnic in the Resource Room there or outside on the picnic benches. They invite you to Walk, Talk, Move and Make. See nationalgalleries.org. or sign up for their newsletter at nationalgalleries.org/ebulletin. They are always looking for volunteers!
Other outdoor family fun ideas at RSPB.org.uk/families.
P6s’ Trip to the Jupiter Artland the Best Ever!
Last Wednesday all the P6s headed for a visit to the Jupiter Artland sculpture parkland at Wilkieston.
We took the children to see the magical amethyst grotto before we met our guides for the day.
The day started with an introduction from the Art educators Sara and Lauren and a guided tour of some of the sculptures. We split into two groups and had some brilliant discussions about the artworks and their settings in nature.
Then it was off to sketch out our design ideas to add to the wonderful meteorite-like Coppice Wood by Andy Goldsworthy. This was quite an honour as this was the first time pupils have been creating to add to this land artist’s works.
The P6s rose to the challenge and we had amazing explanations of the works as they carried out their ideas. Please ask your child what they made and what they thought about the day. Finished works will be in an online gallery soon. We had a follow-up lesson back in class digitally manipulating our photographs using apps such as Be funky, Mixala, Art Effect, Snapseed and Art Set. These are free apps.
Our teaching staff had a wonderful day seeing such engaged and enthusiastic pupils. One staff member said it was the best trip ever!
ART WINS in our STEAM SCHOOL
Art Winners who all were shortlisted to enter, along with 7000 others, the National Tesco Bank Art Competition at The National Galleries in Scotland a few months ago were celebrated today at our Assembly. They created these imaginative artworks over a few weeks. They were judged by the PSWs who chose exactly whom I would have!
P1 – Oliver created an eye-catching blue cat with spots. He has an excellent eye for detail and painted a colourful background in acrylics. He always makes very interesting choices for line and colour that are sometimes unexpected.
P4 – Isla W designed a bright, vibrant Pop Art drawing in the cat theme with bold geometric shapes. Her artwork made the judges smile with her two cheeky cats. She has shown very detailed and thoughtful drawing skills and some interesting stripy-coloured cats against a multi-coloured sky background.
P6 – Mhari started her magical dragon with an exquisite line drawing in graphite and pencil. The theme was Makers of Magic. She drew all the scales and texture of the creature and then added some pearlescent colours such as emerald green. We all agreed that she created a beautiful beast.
All of our fabulous finalists are all on display on three boards around the school with one school-chosen WINNER on each board. Please tell us what you think.
Perhaps you would have chosen another winner. Can you explain why?
Why do some artworks shine for you? 
Perhaps you would have chosen another winner. Can you explain why?
Why do some artworks shine for you? 
As we continue to develop our art skills we hope next year to go on and win in the competition. The winners are on display at MOD 1 in Edinburgh off Belford Road. I hope to take the new P5s to see this in September 2018 as part of their outdoor workshop there. A little inspiration is all we need to BELIEVE, ACHIEVE AND SUCCEED! Let’s go from STEM to STEAM. STEAM is an educational approach to learning that uses Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics as access points for guiding student inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking.
P5A Art Gallery 6/6/18
P1W Teamwork in Art
Some pupils worked in teams…
P1W 5/6/18 Free Art
P1W were immersed in the freedom of Art outside.
Those with painting togs could choose from all the messy art materials in our new Creative Boxes. Here is what they chose for their expressive arts and mark making:
dripping and spattering paint, mixing paint
collage with found objects
drawing and painting with sticks and stones
If you have any washed bottle tops, fabrics, sellotape, masking tape, large paintbrushes, polystyrene or other items for collage and sculpture such as plasticine they would be much appreciated!
Please can the pupils have painting togs for these lessons…
‘You can make mistakes here, but you can’t get away with not taking risks’
Jason e
xplained he was thinking about a house then I heard Ms Brolls say that cubes are boring so I thought about a swing for kids like princess toy . It made him think about doing something original.well done Jason
jason
Sara Barker-inspired Strangely Fragile Sculptures in P5A and P7
The Second Level pupils in Art have been looking, thinking and wondering about the Glasgow-based young artist called Sara Barker. She creates fragile-looking sculptures from metal and paint that we tried to describe. Her artwork is on display in Edinburgh at the NOW exhibition and there is one work outdoors at Jupiter Artland. The Edinburgh exhibition is free:-) Some saw deconstructed people, butterflies, airplanes, mountains, coastlines and even a coat hanger! We tried making our own structural forms from paper Artstraws and pipecleaners. It was a challenge to make the 3-D structures stable to stand on a plinth or to attach to a wall. Some of them worked collaboratively.
Next week we will add a painted element or use another of our Art skills. I can’t wait to see what direction they will take…
Digital Manipulation
On the 18th of May P6 started to do digital manipulation which means when you take a picture of still life and then turn it to black and white. We took some pictures of outside and then we took some of people. We used an app called Snapseed to change the fond of the picture.
Here’s some examples of some photos we took.
