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Art
Our thoughts and ideas about Ralph Going's 'Blue Tile and Iced Water' painting from 1987
Figures in Proportion - exploring how to use body part sizes to guide our proportions
More art opinions about a POP ART portrait of the Queen.
We have been interpreting how artists have depicted the Queen in their portraits.
CHIAROSCURO - the challenge of shading in the dark! Careful observation of where light is falling and shadows are darker and lighter.
Year 4 - Still life in a range of drawing media; 2B, 6B, graphite stick, charcoal and chalk. Observational skills improving and comments from other children.
Year 4 experimenting with watercolour techniques such as 'wet on wet', flicking, using the end of brushes to make lines, bleeding and smudging and having a 'feel' for the qualities of watercolour. Inspired by contemporary artist, Emma Burleigh.
MARK ROTHKO inspired us to paint abstract and respond to colours. Our stimulus was Spring - tulips, bright lime trees, bluebell woods and blossom. We challenged ourselves with large paintbrushes and to 'feel' the paint and respond to colours.
ART CLUB - LOOKING AT IMPRESSIONISTS SUCH AS VINCENT VAN GOGH AND CONTEMPORARY ARTIST LUKE EDWARD HALL - challenge in having a feel for the paint, being challenged with a bright coloured background, challenged with a range of 3 large brushes and challenge in 40 minutes to finish!
OUR COMPLETED AND PAINTED BRITISH ANIMALS
HAWTHORN CLASS' ART CLUB - Year 4 - British animals in clay - Owls
HAWTHORN CLASS' ART CLUB - Year 4 - British animals in clay - Badgers
LESSON 2 - Watercolour Jellyfish for 'Somebody Swallowed Stanley' literacy text.
Lesson 1 - mark-making for jellyfish using 6b, 2b, graphite stick, biro and felt pen on long A2 scale. We tried to capture texture and movement.
Lesson 5 - now to be a SCULPTOR! Using clay and inspired by Barbara and Henry, we made our own clay, abstract sculptures which hint at human figures and conversations.
Lesson 4 - exploring Henry Moore's wax resist technique in our sketchbooks. We used candles and tealights to add texture and atmosphere to our drawings just like Henry Moore. We included images of Barbara Hepworth's work also.
Lesson 3 - The Big Draw of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth - drawing in a large group of large sculptures
Lesson 2 - comparing Henry Moore with Barbara Hepworth
3 pupils from Hawthorn have been inspired to sketch more Henry Moore forms at home
LESSON 1 - HENRY MOORE'S SKETCHBOOKS inspired Hawthorn class to fill a page with drawings of Henry's monumental sculptures. We used biro, 2b, 6b - just like the artist.
HARVEST STILL LIFE
We looked at some Impressionist painters and their Still Life drawings of fruit and vegetables.
Here are our observational chalk pastel drawings with chalk and charocal. Pictured are ongoing work and then final pieces. We were drawing for a sustained period of time - an hour.
HAWTHORN CLASS AS BOOK ILLUSTRATORS
Inspired by Quentin Blake, we have experimented in our sketchbooks drawing and painting the characters from 'The Enormous Crocodile'.
We discussed his style as 'deliberately scruffy' with black lines that make the pictures 'pop out'.
We will be adding black pen just like Quentin Blake next time.
PICASSO THAT EYE!
We've been learning about the famous artist, Pablo Picasso, as part of International Day (our country was Spain).
We experimented in our sketchbooks using his Cubist style. We explored oil pastels as well.
We Picassoed that eye!
HAWTHORN YEAR 4
We have been exploring the work of artist Keith Haring who called himself 'the boy who could not stop drawing'.
Then we've experimented with patterns and mark-making with 2B, 6B, graphite stick and layered with biro and felt pen.
KEITH HARING HAS HELPED US TO HAVE IDEAS FOR A GREAT CLASSROOM
We love the work of artist, Keith haring. His images help us see how we should love one another and care for each other.
"We love because God loved us first," Gospel of John Chapter 4:19
We challenged ourselves to make a Keith Haring figure in clay and then make group sculptures with inspiring titles. Our class rules aren't rules just ideas from Keith about how each of us can help each other be happy in our classroom.
PAIRED SCULPTURE WORK
In pairs we used our Keith Haring figures to combine and make a group sculpture. We wanted to explore how each figure is supported by another and that is what we should be striving for in our classroom and in life. We then came up with life affirming titles.
Marlo and Sam, 'Frienshipede'.
Catrin and Ella, 'Teamwork makes the dream work'.
Amelia and Emily, 'We saved our friendship'.
