Nature Art.....III!

Wow, we really love that Secret Garden. Rather than using nature as our "canvas", on this occasion we put our collected items to use as our "medium".  Reception Art Club has never been so quiet and focussed as they were this week - as you can see, their dedication and concentration really paid off...

Nature Art II!

We have been taking advantage of the lovely weather, and our bountiful Secret Garden, to make more art with nature.  This time, we used acrylic paint pens to decorate interesting leaves we found.  We needed to experiment with different strokes and pressure depending on the type of leaf we were working with; we also had to think quite hard about how to secure our "canvas" in the wind!

Sketch For Survival

For a few weeks at the start of the summer term, Art Club worked on individual pieces of artwork to enter into the Sketch For Survival art competition.  This competition asks for entrants to base their work on species listed as threatened on the IUCN Red List, so we spent some time researching the Red List and selecting species to look at and settled on the Luristan Newt.  We looked really carefully at the Luristan Newt and everyone drew their own version following a video made just for Art Club.  Next, we looked at the newt's habitat to help us understand what the background of our pictures should look like, adding this by way of pointillism.

Our entries will be submitted to the competition at the end of the summer term, and in the meantime, they look like this...

Nature Art

We have also been experimenting with some home made spray paint, mixing poster paint with lots of water and loading it into teeny weeny spray bottles.  After carefully selecting some interestingly shaped leaves and other items from the Secret Garden, we arranged them on some paper, gave it all a good misting with our paint and then peeled away the nature, leaving some "negative space" in its place.

Erwin Wurm

We’ve had a lot of fun in Art Club this week looking at the work of sculptor Erwin Wurm, in particular his “One Minute Sculptures”.  As exhibited in galleries across the world, this particular collection encourages the viewer to interact with everyday objects in unusual ways according to Wurm’s hand drawn instructions.  The resulting sculpture is therefore in existence, physically, for a brief time only - perhaps just one minute.  We had such a good time experimenting with this idea in Art Club, our sculptures didn’t hang around for much longer than about 30 seconds before we were on to the next!  Take a look…

Alberto Giacometti

This week in Art Club we learned a little bit about Alberto Giacometti and some of his sculptures.  Lots of them are tall, thin figures which are made from metal.  Rather than roll out the blow torches and soldering irons, we decided to use tin foil to make sculptures similar to Giacometti’s - here are some of our results…