Thursday 12th March

At Artclub we painted our models of the tropical animals we had made.

Our Year 5/6 children started to write the words on to their finished pictures

that will complete them.

All the small pictures are now complete and look amazing when put together.

Next week we will be completing our models.

Thursday 5th March

We carried on with the artwork we are making to be displayed in Tropical World, Leeds.

Thursday 26th February

Today we started to make our model animals that will be displayed alongside the large paintings we have been creating in Artclub. We chose to make an anteater, snakes, a porcupine, a parrot and a jaguar. 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 will then be able to paint and collage.

The “L” and “V” paintings were started and the backgrounds for the letters a-z were collaged.  This week they have been cut out and stuck on to the paintings.

Thursday 12th February 2015

Today was the last session of Artclub before the half term and we wanted to complete as much of the paintings as possible.  During the holidays a start has been made on sewing the smaller paintings together.  There are 24 of them which when combined will make one large painting inspired by the book “A Walk in the Rainforest” by Kristin Joy Pratt. We still have 2 outstanding:-  the “L” painting and the “V” painting, so we will need to design those and also make our 3d animals…so much to keep us busy. Our other large painting inspired by the book “The Great Kapok Tree” by Lynne Cherry has had all the smaller paintings pinned on to the background, ready to be glued down.

Thursday 5th January

Miss Morris and Mrs. Chin would like to welcome all our new children who came to our Artclub after-school club today and started their lovely drawings and paintings.  For the children who have been attending  Artclub since November it is our tenth week of creating our massive paintings for Tropical World in Leeds. As you can see in the pictures they continued painting and applying collage to their Rainforest inspired paintings, producing some really lovely artwork. Next week we will be completing all our paintings, so that they can be put together to make up the finished pieces.  When we return after half-term we will be looking forward to making some 3d models of the animals.

Wednesday 4th February

Over the last two weeks we have continued with our artwork for Tropical World.  We have started to use collage to add interest and detail to the paintings.