Klee

As a follow-on from their colour mixing, the y3's have started to paint some simple landscapes in the 'style' of Paul Klee.

We drew them first before adding a grid as an aid.

castles and more colour mixing

In Y1 we made clay castles. We rolled out the clay into thin slabs (we didn't use battens - too tricky) and then cut out the crenellations. 

 

 

 

 The slab was then rolled around a tube to form the final piece. Stones were added by pressing square section wooden pieces into the clay.

 

 

In Y3 we've had the whole morning to further develop our understanding of colour mixing. We experimented with different shades of the secondary colour by varying the amounts of each primary colour in the mix.

 

colour mixing

Some more colour mixing with Y3's. This time we drew overlapping circles.

 

We use foil as pallets to minimise on the washing up. 

 



The secondary colours don't show up too well on this photo but the overall effect is one of transparency.

 



colour wheel stuff

Did some simple colour wheel stuff yesterday (primary & secondary colours) - only just managed to upload the pics today (don't like posting an entry without a visual and try if at all possible not to do it - is anyone else like this?). After the colour mixing practice the children had free rein to paint a picture of their choice. It was nice to see some of them trying techniques we've covered over the last few weeks.