Thursday 25th October

Today we continued working on our large scale sculptures of dragonflies and butterflies. 

 

The Artclub were asked to make some butterflies for one of the community rooms at the Children's Centre in Lofthouse.  We asked if we could add to the butterfly idea by designing and making dragonflies too, to which they agreed. 

Working in our pairs we painted our sculptures.  We chose which colours we wanted and then just got on with it. 

We chose contrasting colours for the bodies. 

We will be adding pattern and texture to the sculptures and I am excited to think of how unique each piece will become.

 

When we return after half term we will be designing our finished pattern before completing our pieces. 

 

Thursday 18th October

Today we made the most of the Autumn sunshine by being outside for Artclub.

We paper mached the models we made last week.  Again we worked in our pairs and glued and stuck our models. 

Next week we will be applying a layer of white paper over the newsprint so that we can successfully paint the models light colours if we wish.

They are looking terrific already.  We cannot wait until they are ready to paint.

Thursday 11th October

Today at Artclub we started to make our sculptures of butterflies and dragonflies.  When they are finished they will be on display in one of the community rooms at the Children's Centre in Lofthouse.

We worked in pairs and we chose whether we wanted to make a butterfly or a dragonfly.

We used plastic bags and stuffed them with newspaper to create the shapes we needed and then we wrapped masking tape or sticky tape around the shape to reinforce them.

The butterfly heads were made in the same way and attached to the body, then too, were the wings.

The dragonflies had long skinny bodies and their wings needed to be ultra thin.  We strengthened card and drew the wings.  These we then attached to the bodies.

Can I say how enthusiastic everybody was making these and Mrs Mistry and myself are amazed at the sculptures that have been made.  Next week we will be paper macheing so please remember to bring an art shirt to protect your uniform.

Thursday 4th October

At Artclub today we made the most of the beautiful weather and painted outdoors.

 

 

We worked in two groups.  The first group experimented with mixing colours.  We started with our primary colours (red, blue and yellow) and combining two of these colours, mixed our secondary colours (green, orange, purple). We added white to lighten some of the colours and painted all our colours on to cut-out shapes that will make up a giant collaborative butterfly.  We made some lovely colours and we invented names for them, such as "Chocolate Brownie", "Sunset Orange", "Pinky Pink" and there truly was a "Sky Blue Pink"! We had great fun and could not resist mixing all the colours together which resulted in a purply brown.

 

 

The other group painted their salt - dough models made last week.  These were  butterflies or dragonflies. We used some lovely bright colours and lots of glitter. We then added some sequins to decorate them, remembering to keep the pattern symmetrical.

 

 

 

 

 

Half way through the the session we swapped over, so we had a turn at both activities.

 

 

 

 

Here are our fabulous creations.  Hope you like them.