Anthony Browne Portraits

We used Anthony Browne's book, Little Beauty as inspiration for our portraits. We noticed that he created some of his illustrations with a very simple pencil sketch and a detailed background. We used this idea to create some pictures of ourselves and here are the results.

To the Rescue!

As part of our study of flight, we have been talking about imaginary characters that fly. The children in B6 were particularly interested in superheroes. We created superheroes by importing pictures we took into Microsoft Paint and adding detail.



We experimented with different camera views

 

We thought about how superheroes pose

 

Here is a slideshow of our finished superheroes.

 

 

Monster Mania

On Friday, we created some monster collages using all sorts of different materials. We had a lot of fun using our imaginations to dream up our own monsters. Here is a video of our monsters. Shane was our photographer.

Tile Mosaics

We have been working very hard on an art project for outside our classroom block. We have been making flower mosaics, using broken ceramic tiles, on squares of wood. Here is a slideshow of how we made them.

The tiles have now been mounted outside A Block and they look fantastic! Come on down and check them out.

Portraits

Check out our fantastic portraits that we created with Mrs Wheeler, using vivid and dye!

Lion Paintings

Here is a slideshow of the lions we painted.

Frog Art

Last week, we created some very colourful frog art using vivid and dye. Here is a video of the results.

Classroom Quilt

Over the past two weeks, we have been very busy making a classroom quilt. We had to draw a picture of ourselves using black paint and dye on material. Then Helen (Miss Lepou's mum) sewed up the quilt for us. Thank you very much Helen.

Come down to A4 and have a closer look at the quilt hanging on our wall.

We are Smarty Pants!

This week, we have been reading Smarty Pants by Joy Cowley. We have been talking about what makes us smarty pants. We have also created some fantastic clown art inspired by a great website:  Art Projects for Kids. Here is a video of the results.

Snail Art

This week, we completed our snail art. We used pastels on black paper because snails are nocturnal. Our pictures had to include a snail's shell, foot, tentacles and eyes and as you can see, we have labelled these body parts.

Good Morning City

This term we have been learning about the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser and we have created art based on Hundertwasser's painting Good Morning City. It took us two weeks to complete. Here is a video of the art process.

Check out the final product! The art looks great. It looks even better in the classroom so if you would like to take a closer look, come down to A4! A big thank you to Rachel (Loveday's Mum - who is an art teacher) for your great ideas and input.

ACTUAL SIZE Collages

A4 read the story ACTUAL SIZE.  We decided to measure our bodies and make life-size collages.