Thursday 16th May

Well it was a quiet Artclub this week with half of the pupils away on Residential! Needless to say those of us who were here cracked on with the next stage of the wall hangings for Stanhope Community Centre.

We took advantage of the beautiful weather and set up our painting areas outside.  We painted the backgrounds of the hangings after discussing what colours we felt would look best with the fruit collages we were putting on them. The apple background was painted pale gold, the pears background painted silver, the plums - gold, whilst the strawberries and oranges both had cream backgrounds chosen for them.

All were encouraged to enjoy the paint and use big brushstrokes to create lines, brush strokes and texture.  We will be working into these areas with collage.

One of the owls came to visit us, and we took it in turns to help Mrs. Chin stick pom-poms on to make it's wings. We were looking which colours looked good next to each other, whether a solid colour and a patterned pom-pom looked good next to eachother and then, how different textures could be put next to eachother to compliment each of them.

Thanks for all your help guys, I think this owl is looking good!  Next Thursday we will be building up layers of collage onto our fruit paintings.