We learned how to use paper folding, cutting and sewing skills to design and make our Christmas Cards this year. Some of us found the sewing difficult but we persevered and we think they looked amazing!
Art
We are learning about the artist Gustav Klimt
We looked at ‘The Avenue in Schloss Kammer Park’ and considered how it made us feel and what we could see in the picture.
We looked at ‘Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer’ and made our own versions.
Clay Pots
To make their clay pots, Stone age potters would first have had to gather their materials. They would have got a lump of raw solid clay which they would bash in to small flakes. Then, they would add and mix in: quartz, crushed fruit and shells, old, burned clay pots and water. When this was smooth, they would get roughly a quarter of the clay, pinch it and flatten it into a base with short edges. Next, they would roll out their clay, bit by bit, and coil it up on top of the layer underneath. After that, they would use flint scrapers to smooth the sides. Next they would use their fingers, bird bones, claws and antlers to decorate the pot. Finally, they would set them on fire to turn them in to earthenware.
To make a pinch pot we simply flattened the clay and pinched up the edges. For the coil pots, we made our base first. Then we scored diagonal slashes across the coils of clay and the base. We put a little amount of water on the layers and put the coils around the rim, lining up the scores to help them join the layers together. We continued this process until we had a pot. Then we used our tools to smooth the edges and add our decorations, just like the Stone Age people would have done.
Jamie and Maya
Prehistoric Cave Paintings
We have been learning about Stone Age cave paintings in art lessons. We studied the cave paintings in Spain and in France and realised that most depicted animals, man and hunting. We learned about the types of materials they would have used to create them and then we painted our own cave paintings. We even used our own made charcoal that we made in the fire in our forest school session.
Crows Art
Year Two joined us for a transition morning and we learned about N.C. Wyeth’s ‘Crows in Winter’ painting. We recreated his painting learning how to use a range of media like pastels, paper art and collage.
Vincent Van Gogh
In art we have been artists in the style of Vincent Van Gogh. Focusing on using a pencil for sketching. We used his own art work as a reference and sketched in in our sketch books.
Emerald Class have been learning about the artist Vincent Van Gogh
We have painted in his style and had a go at making a 3D clay picture using either Sunflowers or Starry Night as our inspiration. Iria said, “I chose the sunflowers because I like the sun.”
Emerald Class Art
As artists we created a self portrait in the style of Roy Lichtenstein. We drew our faces and used colours and dots to copy his style of artwork.
Georgia O’Keeffe
Our Art lessons for this half term has been learning about Georgia O’Keeffe. We learned all about her painting of flowers and landscapes and then used her techniques and style to inspire our own flower and landscape paintings.
