Acrylic techniques

9th December 2023Ruth Shields

We continued our art slice by practicing different acrylic paint techniques.

Then, we started the first draft of our Christmas calendar. This involved using the sponge technique to create the background using colour mixing. We have already started to critique our first attempt and realised we’ll need to be more precise with colour mixing on our second draft.

Finally, we started to sketch the trees for each season. Again, we started to reflect and think about what we’ll need to do differently on the next draft.

All about art 🎨🖌️

8th December 2023Kate Thompson

What a fantastic start to our art slice Crew Thompson have made. We are aiming to use water colour to create a background for our calendars. Today we have made a start on practicing the techniques we are going to be using such as: flat wash, graded wash, wet on wet, splatting and lifting off. It has been really important to practice these skills because we will be using these in our final piece. We are super excited to use these skills in our first draft next week.

Junk Modelling 📦✂️

8th December 2023Eleanor Pashley

This week, we have been practicing our fine motor cutting skills by building and making things out of the big cardboard boxes. The children have enjoyed making superhero outfits and houses. We are going to paint them next week and add different things to improve on them.

We are artist! 🎨🖌️

7th December 2023Ruth Shields

We’ve had a lovely morning in Crew Shields as we explored a new artist and became familiar with the critique norms.

We looked at pieces of art and started to think about praises and wonders for each piece. We also considered the pieces that we liked and the ones we weren’t so keen on. There was a discussion about how people like different styles of art but this is down to personal preferences.

Our new artist is Waltraud Nawratil so we spent some time building up some background knowledge on the artist we’ll be staying out art after.

Then, we recapped some sketching techniques and watched a video on acrylic paint techniques. Crew Shields are excited to get cracking on their first draft tomorrow.

We are artists🧑🏻‍🎨

6th December 2023Hannah McLoughlin

We have made a start on our final product artwork that will sit alongside our monologue in our very own frames. In our first lesson, we lightly sketched an outline to then tomorrow make our spider monkey come alive with a pop of abstract colour using oil pastels. Watch out on the blog for our finished pieces!

Step by step we followed miss’ individual pencil markings – we think we were pretty successful, don’t you? Shout out to Kaylum for being Miss’ art expert and practising his artwork at home prior to the lesson – he did a great job of helping everyone and his art piece was definitely better than miss’!

Christmas artwork

5th December 2023A Welburn

Today in Crew MW, we started our Christmas artwork! The skill we are focussing on is colour mixing..We had lots of fun using our hands to print into one colour, our partner then printed in the second colour and then we mixed our hands together to see what colour the mixed colours made. We found out that blue and red make purple, yellow and red makes orange, and blue and yellow makes green! 🎨

Art continues in MI

5th December 2023Stacey McClare

Today we continued our art slice by consolidating our sketching techniques. We experimented with different pencils and tone then practised some different sketching techniques like hatching and cross hatching. We then applied the techniques we had practised to a drawing. This drawing was a Christmas tree and one we will be using in our final piece for our calendar.

MI start their art slice

4th December 2023Stacey McClare

Today we started our Christmas art slice. We started by thinking about the types of paint that can be used in art. We then thought about when we use each type and we explored a range of pictures. We thought about the look the paint gives, the colours that are used along with the techniques. We also offered our own critique based on the pictures. We were then introduced to the artist we will study for this art slice- Vincent Van Gogh. We watched a clip and built background knowledge before creating a class anchor chart. We then looked at a variety of Vincent’s work thinking about what we can see, how the art makes us feel, the techniques that have been used and we thought about what Vincent was trying to express. Our exit ticket allowed us to find different people in the room, voicing facts about Vincent.

Our second lesson allowed us to explore and experiment with different acrylic techniques. We watched a clip to help guide us through the techniques then we thought about Vincent’s art work and the techniques he used. We evaluated each technique thinking about which were reasonably straight forward and which proved a little more difficult. Finally our exit ticket allowed us to offer critique for improvement to others.