recent stuff

Some recent pieces. The first is in anticipation of 'Le Tour' coming to God's Own County. Some cyclists passing a quaint little country village before tackling a category 1 climb! Acrylics and pencil crayon on paper.

 

 

Doodles from my sketchbook. No prizes for guessing the title of the last one.

painting

Y6 painted strips of paper to represent water. They used wet on wet, spatter and combing techniques.

They are intended for a composite piece that incorporates their ceramic ducks and fish.

 



Meanwhile Y5 took inspiration from Mondrian and Paul Klee to paint 'green' abstract images. These will be used back to back to create leaves for the magic forest that Y1 are currently putting together.

mixed bag

Just before half term we finished our automata. Those who had a bit of time managed to make a 'pecking bird' that utilised a simple crank mechanism.

 

 

The Earth revolves in space;

In y6 we are continuing with out 'river' theme and have begun to make 3d waterfall collages/paper sculptures.

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).