Thursday 27 September 2012

Thursday 27th September

Today we made models of butterflies and dragonflies from salt dough and worked on our symmetrical drawings continued from last week.

We are developing our knowledge of butterflies and dragonflies and practising our skills to make our big sculptures for one of the Community Rooms at the Children's Centre, Lofthouse.

 

We were thinking how a butterfly and dragonfly look in three dimensions.


 

We would have loved to have studied some real ones but instead we looked at images of real-life sculptures of butterflies and dragonflies made by artists.




Some of us chose to make butterflies and others, dragonflies.  We all appreciated that their bodies needed to be rounded, but the salt dough proved sticky and we just could not get the angle of the wings we were looking for, to imitate flight.



When we build our big sculptures we will paper mache the bodies and experiment with wire and card to create the wings.  How exciting!




The models are now drying out and next week we will paint and decorate them using the skills of creating symmetry we practised last week.

We will also have some big painting going on outside in Nursery's playground under the canopy.

Thursday 20 September 2012

Thursday 20th September

A huge welcome to KS1 Artclub! We have a new venue, which is Nursery.  So parents please collect straight from the Nursery doors...and a super new project.

We have been asked by the Children's Centre, based at Rodillian school, Lofthouse to turn one of their community rooms into a Butterfly and Dragonfly room.


As you can see there are some butterflies hanging from the ceiling which gave them the idea.  The artclub are going to make some large scale sculptures to hang from the ceiling.  These we will design, create and decorate over the next few weeks.

Today we coloured in line drawings of butterflies and dragonflies.  We were allowed to choose which we wanted to do.



We talked about what was important in nature's design of these insects.  They were "Beautifully coloured", "patterned", "had wings", "had the same patterns on both sides" and were "symmetrical".




This we then practised. We were careful to keep our colouring in the lines and shade in one direction.
This prompted us to have some background music playing whilst we coloured, so we started with One Direction's "What makes you beautiful"



Some of us completed the colouring and then designed our own butterfly / dragonfly.


 

Next week we are going to look at the shape of the butterflies and dragonflies and make some models out of salt dough.  This will encourage us to think three dimensionally.

Please can you all remember an artshirt or old T shirt.