'River'

Y6 have completed their river piece.

 

 

We decided to hang the fish with wire instead of thread as some of them are quite heavy.

 

Not sure whether it looks better with the added blue wool or not (?). I might put a blue sheet against the wall behind it 'under' the table and a simple riverbank above.

fishcakes

Fresh from the kiln, some of our y6 fish.

 

 

 And one of the completed papier mache celebration cakes. We obtained the colouring by applying coloured tissue paper as the final layer rather than use paint. A card crown and a bit of fancy ribbon finish it off perfectly.

lots!

This was our art room the other day as y5 finished off their papier mache, tiered, celebration 'cakes'! The children did tidy it up at the end. When they are dry I'll post some pics.

 

Meanwhile in y6, we glazed our (slab) fish sculptures. They are designed to be suspended, hence the hole in the top!

And finally, today in y4 we went a long way to completing our felt hats. This is the back view of one - on the front is a happy face!

doodle

'following the catch'

 

 

Ink & pencil in sketchbook.

recent

The mural on the FS1 wall continues to grow - this is part of the section supposedly showing children at play!

 

In FS2 we've painted, based and rigged our salt dough pirate ships.

In Y1 we painted our clay fish....

....and created underwater seascapes to display them.

In Y2 we began to papier mache the dinosaur heads - ready to take the pneumatic operating system (syringes and plastic tubing!).

today

Today in Y1 we painted the clay fish. We might give them a coat of PVA when they're fully dry just to give them a bit of protection/shine. They will be mounted in under sea dioramas eventually - more of which anon.

 

 

In Y4 we completed our paper engineering - lever mechanism pieces. This one, when the lever is pulled/pushed, operates and moves all 3 oars simultaneously. Next week we're moving on to cams!

clay

Spent the whole day up to my elbows in clay. First off, with Y1 making fish - impressed details. Secondly with Y2 and representations of fossils - relief modelling. The aim is to either paint them when dry or apply polish and buff!

 

Can't wait to get the new kiln set up and running - it's only been in it's packaging since March! I'm waiting to move into my 'new' art room - at the moment I have to constantly move all the materials and resources from room to room/floor to floor, depending on which class I'm teaching - frustrating!

under the sea

As part of their studies about water, yesterday the y1's created underwater pictures using the resist method. We used oil pastels to draw our creatures, coral, seabeds first and then went over them with a liberal wash of watery, blue paint.





Fish

In Y1 today we did paper-weaving using strips of paper to represent the scales of fish. 

 

 

 

The children will be looking at the book 'Rainbow Fish' next week so it should prove a good stimulus.

dummy mock-ups

Been playing around with the box thingy idea that you might have seen previously on this blog. I must fathom out how to put those links to previous postings at the bottom, like everyone else seems to do. Am tentatively thinking of going with Q'oobs or possibly CUBEz ( the latter would fit in better with my overall 'branding' ! - please don't hurt yourself laughing) as a concept name. These two rough dummies came about because Y3 are studying the Ancient Greeks whilst Y1 are looking at 'water, water everywhere' as a theme - it's supposed to be a piranha!

 

 

I'm thinking of putting a little book together detailing how to make a variety of models all from the same very simple starting point. I would welcome any thoughts or ideas. I'm aiming to self-publish and sell through Etsy/Folksy as per my best-selling (!!) book - 'A is for Art' (please check it out in my shops on the right of this post).

a mad idea

Have seen a few pixellated images on the net of late and thought I'd give it a try. Sketched out a sheep easily enough but then got carried away and tried to do a fish! Decided it was too much of a faff before I'd even added any fins. Probably easier to do on isometric paper rather than plain.

Work is manic - chasing paper before the end of the school year whilst still trying to teach a science week and sort out my room, as I'll be undertaking a different but hopefully more exciting and fulfilling role next year. Watch this space.

chasing shadows

Been creating shadow(ish) puppets today. We kept it simple - one moving part only. Unfortunately no black card so not the full, silhouette effect. We used an old frame, G-clamped to the table edge, with the back removed and tracing paper taped over the glass. It still had the 'wow' factor with the children though.