colour

The y3's continued with their colour mixing investigations today. By gradually adding one colour to another they were able to create quite subtle variations.

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.

 

after paul klee

More colour mixing this week using a palette limited to primary colours + white - creating pieces inspired by the work of Paul Klee.

We'll be finishing them off next week.

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.