As part of our autobiography work, we all made our self-portraits using natural materials from the outdoors. Do you think they look like us?
Art
Leonardo Da Vinci
As we have been studying maps in Geography, we learned about the artist Leonardo Da Vinci in Art lessons and his mapping skills. We learned how to use sketching pencils to draw and shade maps then produced our own map of a local area of our choice in the style of Leonardo Da Vinci. Some pupils even hid secret codes in theirs, just like Da Vinci would have done.
Can you follow our maps?
Leonardo Da Vinci
We learned how Leonardo Da Vinci made anatomical drawings of hands and then used the sketching techniques we hand learned to sketch our own hands in his style. Some of us added annotations to ours just like he would have done.
We looked at the painting ‘The Sunflower’ by Klimt.
We painted our own flower garden in the style of Klimt. We had to decide which flowers we liked and what we would include in our own garden.
Christmas Cards
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!
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.
