Thursday 11th December

Today was our last session of Artclub before Christmas. 

Year 3/4 started to paint their animals to go on to the backdrop of the Rainforest they started to paint last week.

Year 5/6 continued with their individual paintings, depicting a letter of the alphabet and an object / plant / animal of the Rainforest, which will be put together to make one large painting.

Both of these when completed are to be displayed at Tropical World in Leeds.

Thursday 4th November

Today we started painting the background to the large painting for Tropical World in Leeds. 

We also continued with the smaller paintings of things you would find in the Rainforest.

Art Club

This week we continued with our designs for the two paintings for Tropical World in Leeds. Year 5/6 put colour to their pencil drawings and Year 3/4 researched tropical animals to then draw on to the large scale plan of the painting.

   

Thursday 13th November

This week in Art club we have continued to develop our designs for the two large paintings for Tropical World in Leeds.

We completed our individual designs for the painting inspired by the book “The Great Kapok Tree” by Lynne Cherry.  In these, each of the children thought about all the animals in the story and how they could place them in the painting, whilst including the sleeping man and of course, the kapok tree.

We then used large pieces of paper to construct the tree on a background cut to the actual size of the painting 135cm x 210cm to see how big it needs to be and where it looks best. The children then drew the animals and the sleeping man on to the background to understand the scale of the painting and to look at the composition.

The Year 5/6 children continued designing their paintings based on the book “A Walk in the Rainforest” by Kristin Joy Pratt.  First they are producing line drawings, making sure they fill the paper with detail and later they will introduce colour.

Art Club- 6th November

Today was our first Artclub session of this year.  Over the next few weeks we will be creating two large paintings and sculptures that will be displayed in Tropical World in Leeds.

The first painting is inspired by the book “The Great Kapok Tree” by Lynne Cherry and our Year 3 and 4 pupils who attend the Artclub will be creating their artwork around this story.  We read the book and the children agreed on the essential design elements within the painting.  They then set about drawing their own ideas on how it should look.

The book “A Walk in the Rainforest” by Kristin Joy Pratt is the stimulus behind the second painting.  It will be made up of the alphabet which our Year 5 and 6 pupils will be creating.  Today they have chosen the letters they will be working on, out of a basket, and have been researching and drawing things you will see in the rainforest beginning with those letters.

Year 3/4: The Big Draw 2014

Lower Key Stage 2 created large oil pastel drawings inspired by the rainforest and the mural painters of Mexico and small detailed drawings of the animals which live there.