This artwork
has been made by the Artclub, an after-school club of sixteen pupils at Robin
Hood Primary School, Leeds. Since November, the children have been designing
and making these two paintings and models.
The first
painting is inspired by the book “The Great Kapok Tree” by Lynne Cherry and was
made by the Year 3 and 4 pupils. They read the book and the children agreed on
the essential features within the painting.
They then set about drawing their own ideas on how it should look. 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. First they
painted the tree onto the background fabric and then over the next few weeks
the children painted and collaged their animals
The book “A
Walk in the Rainforest” by Kristin Joy Pratt is the stimulus behind the second
painting. The Year 5/6 children chose
the letters they would be working on, out of a basket, and researched and drew
things you will see in the rainforest beginning with those letters. They each
completed several paintings.
We then took
our 2d designs of the animals and made them three dimensional. They are made
from recyclable materials like plastic bottles, yoghurt cartons and plastic
bags stuffed with newspaper and then shaped using masking tape. A layer of paper mache and PVA glue creates a
hard shell which we then painted and collaged.
