auction pt2

No names to choose from on this one - any ideas?!

artwork auction

Snapped a few of the celeb artworks that are in the auction that runs alongside the art exhibition this week. These are by Jacqueline Wilson, Bob Hoskins,Frankie Dettori, Korky Paul and Jan Pienkowski - can you guess who created which one? (No prizes!).

art week 2

More pics from our Big Arts Week - bits of the exhibition we're holding this next week.

This is an image that was split and then colured separately before being pieced together again.

I decided to display it in isolation on one large wall - not sure whether it works though.

On Friday my class looked at the work of Escher. We created tessellations in his style;

One of the younger classes experimented with 'Jackson Pollack';



Another Pollack inspired piece;

But done a very large scale - it fills a wall! I'm half expecting to walk in on Monday and find it on the floor as it was a bit of a devil to put up. They did well to dodge the rain on Friday to create this piece. Great fun was seen to be had squirting paint straight from the bottle, rolling wheels covered in paint and generally dripping and splodging. This pic was taken from my classroom window ;

art week 1

Been trying to do lots of art this week - in between all the other frantic end of year stuff. The overall theme for the week is 'Line, shape & pattern' which hopefully gives all the staff quite a loose rein to cover a very wide range of stuff.
My class started off by looking at Picasso's use of line, in that he conveys and represents a recognisable image using the minimum of marks, often in the form of a continous line. Here's one of the children's pics;




Today we looked at Paul Klee and his mix of line and shape.We used watercolours to paint images in his style - these are looking very promising;

The idea is to, next week, hold a week-long exhibition of pieces created by the whole school. We're going for quality rather than trying to display every single piece by every single child. Hopefully serves as a bit of an incentive/pride thing.

Alongside the exhibition we are also holding a 'running auction' of celebrity 'artworks'. Several months ago I 'invited' over 100 celebs, film stars, sports & TV personalities to send in artwork based around the letter 'H'. Why the letter 'H' ? Because the proceeds from the auction will go to the charity 'Help for Heroes'. I've managed to get 20 pieces from: Korky Paul, Jan Pienkowski, Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson, Bob Hoskins, Bernard Cribbins, Frankie Dettori to name just a few. Some are real works of art, some are doodles, but all are unique! Hopefully they should raise a bob or two. Might post some images up later in the week. If I was a bit more technically minded perhaps I could have listed them online at the same time thereby inviting internet bids. Never mind, maybe next time.

Phew- back to report writing!

up and down

Have just got back after a week away with children from my school. We visited the Harz mountain area here in Germany. 5 days of going up and down hills, in and out of museums, over summer toboggan slides and under the ground in caves! A very good and tiring time was had by all. Managed to scribble & doodle a few sketches at the end of each day whilst the children wrote up their experiences in daily journals. Back to reality and 'proper' school tomorrow - though we have got a week of art activities pencilled in - hooray!

a is for...

In celebration of another sale of my unique, how to draw booklet - 'A is for Art' - a recent page of sketches from my pocket moleskine - A is for...pigeon!

half term hol

Just spent the last few days at our 'chateau' finishing off the tiling. Didn't have time for the grouting - will save that pleasure for the summer hols! Made a nice therapeutic change from filling in tick sheets and marking.