Thursday 3rd March 2016

This week we continued making our models of the animals in the story “The Journey Home” by Fran Preston Gannon.  We also continued with our paintings…

Thursday 11th February 2016

This week we continued with the paintings and building our models.  Can you spot which are going to be the elephant, panda, dodo and the other animals?…

Thursday 4th February 2016

Today at Artclub the painters quickly got started on drawing the faces of the animals from our chosen story The Journey Home by Fran Preston Gannon.

Meanwhile our sculptors researched their animals of choice from the same story.  They found photographs of the animals in real-life situations and looked at them from different angles to build up their knowledge of what their model needed to look like in three dimensions.  Once they had done this, they set about developing their models they had started last week.

Thursday 28th January 2016

Today we looked at the animal models and paintings we made for our Tropical World exhibition last year.  Some of us were part of the team who created them and so we were excited to see them again.  For others it was a chance to see what animals could be made with recyclable packaging and paper mache and just how big the paintings are, that we have made before.

We then completed our pictures inspired by the book “The Journey Home” by Fran Preston Gannon and thought whether we would like to make a model or paint a picture as our main piece.

Those of us who chose to make a model of one of the animals in the story selected plastic bottles and boxes and started to build up the form of the animal. Meanwhile, those who had selected to do a painting/collage worked together to choose an image they wanted to recreate.     

Thursday 21st January 2016

At Artclub we read through the book “The Journey Home” by Fran Preston-Gannon and looked at the beautiful illustrations.  The book tells the story of a polar bear who sets off to find a new home as the ice is melting and he meets some friends along the way. The book has a powerful message of conservation and it raised many interesting questions and comments among our group.

We each chose one illustration from the book and used it to make our own coloured picture. 

Thursday 14th January 2016

This is the first week of Artclub this term and welcome to all new members and those who have returned.  This term we will be designing and making artwork that will be displayed at Tropical World, Leeds.

Using photographs taken in Tropical World, we built up mood boards to create a feeling of what it is like.  Most of us have visited there, but some of us have not so this was a great exercise in seeing what it is like and the different habitats it has.

Doodling

Each week we have been doodling in our sketchbooks, many of us adding to this at home.  We have seen some fabulous doodles which we will show here soon. Miss Morris brought in a cardboard coffee cup she had from a well-known coffee shop and showed us the autumnal doodles that decorated it.  This inspired some of us to reproduce the design and raised our awareness of where doodles can be used.  We then developed these ideas into our own doodles. 

Welcome to Art Club 2015-2016

Miss Morris and I, Mrs. Chin would like to welcome all the children who have joined the Artclub after-school club.  This term we are “doodling.” Miss Morris is a great “doodler” and she wanted to share her enjoyment of it with the Artclub.

Each of us has a sketchbook which will be ours to keep, so that we can doodle whenever we choose. We can stick pictures/photos/ anything we find interesting into it, which will be a wonderful source of inspiration for our doodles.

Last week and this we have been designing the cover of our sketchbooks. 

Art club- Tropical World

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.