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.

Thursday 26th March

At our final Artclub session we proudly showed off our two paintings and animals to our families and friends.

Mrs.Dale, our headteacher also came to see what we had been making.

The artwork is going to be displayed shortly at Tropical World, Leeds where it has been designed specifically for.

See our Robin Hood in the Community blog shortly for updates.

http://robinhoodartinthecommunity.blogspot.co.uk/

Thursday 19th March

Today at Artclub we finished off our models and writing on our painting.

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.