For our story in expedition, we decided to make our own little pigs. We used pink icing with some marshmallows and googly eyes.
we enjoyed eating these as much as we did making them!
Expedition biscuits.
Category : Art and DT
First and Second draft
As with any piece of art work, it’s essential that we have time to draft and redraft our work. By critiquing and reworking, then that’s when improvements can be made to the piece. It was lovely to see the children take on board feedback so that they could improve their second draft.
Art Skills
Before we can attempt our first draft, it’s important that we understanding atheism mediums that we will be using. For our art, we will be using watercolour and acrylic so we needed to practice using these paints. We used the wet on wet, wet on dry and then dry on dry which showed us different effects.
Andy Warhol – Popart
In art, we started by learning about a new artist called Andy Warhol. We learned some key facts about him then explored his style of art which is popart. Popart means popular art. Once we had learned about the artist, we had the opportunity to critique some of his work using I praise, I notice and I wonder. We really liked the bright colours which we later learned are called contrasting colours. These are colours that complement each other but make them stand out and look vivid.
Art work in Crew MT
We are all super proud of our final drafts 🙂 We all showed great resilience and determination whilst working through our art case study. Well done Crew MT!
Art continues in Crew MT!
Today, we carried on with our acrylic art pieces. We added more lava to our volcano, added the lava plume and the volcanic ash cloud above the volcano. We persevered with this as adding the cloud was quite tricky! We stippled the paint onto our artwork and then used a sponge to blend it out. We are really enjoying seeing the picture develop as we continue to add more detail!
Exploring acrylic paint in MT
Today we moved onto exploring acrylic paint. This was a real contract to the water colours we had used yesterday. We explored the techniques needed and practised how we paint using this type of medium. We learnt that building layers is important when using acrylic paint and how it adds to texture.
From here we started our first draft of our art work. We used a video clip to help support the steps needed. First of all we used our knowledge on sketching to build the shape of our volcanoes. Then we started to add our paint, using the techniques we had explored earlier in the day. We built the paint up in layers, adding more texture. We used both acrylic paint and acrylic pens. We are really looking forward to finishing our piece tomorrow where we will add more layers along with a smokey effect for the sky.
Art continues in MT
Today we recapped the skills and techniques needed when using water colours along with the complimentary colours that go together and also show contrast. We recapped our artist Andy Warhol before using a video clip to recreate our own piece of art work in the style of Andy Warhol. We used sketching techniques we had previously used to help us create our art work. We then applied water colours to our drawing using complimentary colours, always thinking about Andy’s style and what he wants from his art work. We then took part in a gallery walk where we admired the art work of our peers. We then gave some critique to our partners work. We explained what we liked about their piece then gave wonders on how they could improve their piece in their second draft. We have really enjoyed using water colours and are excited to compare to acrylic paints tomorrow.
Case study 2- art begins in MT
Today we began our art case study 🙂 First we were introduced to our new artist Andy Warhol. First we looked at a variety of images giving notices on what we could see and the medium being used. From here we were introduced to the pieces of art work we would be creating for our final product, we were all super excited! We then built background knowledge on Andy Warhol, watching a variety of clips. We noted facts on our white boards then build anchor charts in mini crews. From here we explored a range of Andy’s art work, giving praises, notices and wonders. We loved seeing the colours that Andy used in his art work, we loved the colours that complimented each other but also how they gave a strong contract.
Our second art lesson allowed us to practise using water colours where we refined the skills we already had. We experimented with building up water colours then applying to a volcano picture that we sketched. We will then compare and contrast this with acrylic paint, this is the other medium we will use through our art case study. We are all excited for more art lessons this week 🙂
Crew McGlone – Expert illustrator Liz Million
On Tuesday, Crew McGlone welcomed illustrator Liz Million to our school to support us with drawing skills that we can use within our final product creation – a bookmark including children’s drawings of traditional tales characters.
Liz talked to us about her job as an illustrator, told us lots of stories from her childhood and how she decided she wanted to become an illustrator. She then began to show us many examples of artwork she could create just by simply using lots of different shapes. She showed us how easy it was to create the wolf, Little Red Riding Hood and Grandma’s cat, before then doing a step-by-step draw along to create a troll from Billy Goats Gruff!
We listened so well to each of Liz’s instructions and our final pieces were absolutely fantastic! We cannot wait to put our new skills intro practise when we come to do our final product illustrations. Thank you SO much Liz for coming in and working with us, we are very lucky! We will be sending you a bookmark to showcase our fantastic drawings!
