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Art Club for years 3 and 4 will be held in Woodpecker Class. Your lovely children will be ready for collection at 4:30 at the door of Woodpecker Class (year 4) on the side playground.
In Monday Art Club, we've been looking at the work of Richard Webber (a partner in Aardman Animations) and his company, Waaber, who specialise in stop motion animation. To start with, we've been specifically using the subject of Waaber's still images from his Instagram feed - simple, but expressive modelling clay figures - as inspiration for the basis of telling our own single shot stories. Art Club members have been modelling for one another to study how they might use the clay to replicate facial expressions and then giving a lot of thought to how they could pose their figures to illustrate a particular narrative. We've had such fun with them, they're very much a continuing work in progress. Take a look below for some construction shots and a few finished articles...
We’ve been busy settling in our new members for the spring term; setting up our art books, updating our Spotify playlist and generally getting stuck in with our art work. So far this term we have made self portraits for the covers of our art books, practised drawing cartoon faces at different angles and had a go at some basic animation by making flip books (to put our cartoon faces to good use). The flip books have certainly been a challenge and it’s taken a Herculean demonstration of at least 2 of our school values to avoid slam dunking them into the recycling bin whilst tearing our hair out! They have been labour intensive, to say the least, and as a result we don’t have any photographs to share. Needless to say, everyone who joined in did a brilliant job - if perseverance were a school value we’d be ticking that one off too!
Unfortunately, we were unable to finish our excellent Christmas tune in Monday Art Club at our last session of the year, which sadly means that lots of our members didn’t have a turn to contribute to the recording. If anybody would like to have a go at finishing the tune on their own Soundtrap account, please let Mrs Ashley know and we can arrange for a link to be sent to you to tinker with if you have your own Soundtrap account. Alternatively, you could have a go at writing some lyrics or even just give it a name. What we managed to put together, after a bit of editing, is shown below for you to enjoy.
At this fabulously festive time of year we’ve been working on another awesome art form, our own Christmas song! After doing some (albeit extremely) brief research into what makes a memorable Christmas tune, using an online platform called Soundtrap we’ve been taking it in turns to select different loops to build our number 1 hit. It’s a work in progress, which will require some serious editing before it’s ready for public consumption, but everyone’s been having a great time testing out the different sounds and building up the layers of our track. We’ll share it once all our musical ducks are in a row, and in the meantime you can see our budding producers mulling over their options below…
For the last couple of weeks, we’ve been looking at street art and graffiti and practising our own word art. As we have learned, many street artists ply their trade with permission from the owners of the walls they bring to life. However, as Art Club don’t currently have any walls available to decorate without finding ourselves in trouble with Mr Jones or local law enforcement, we have made our own! Take a look at our gorgeous tags (artist signatures, often initials or nicknames) and throws (longer or more detailed than a tag), they could well be the seedlings for some future public “pieces” (larger than throws and with lots of colour and additional art).
Some of us also had a go at using a graffiti generator for inspiration. If you’d like to have a go at home, click here for a link to the website we used. Once you’ve chosen a style, typed your name in and generated your tag or throw, you can edit the effects to make it look extra cool!
In Art Club, we’ve been exploring the rich traditions of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), a Mexican holiday that celebrates and honors loved ones who have passed away. The children have been learning about the vibrant symbolism and artistry associated with this special day, in particular the iconic sugar skulls (calaveras) and marigolds (cempasuchil), which are believed to guide spirits back to the living world.
Our young artists expressed their creativity by drawing their own sugar skulls, decorating them with bold patterns and colours that are typical of this beautiful celebration.
Monday Art Club recently learned a little bit about collage and then set about using various resources to make some of their own. With absolutely no rules on what should appear on the canvas, everyone made beautifully unique artwork which they have been working on for a few weeks now…
Monday and Tuesday Art Club have been looking at the work of Kate Shaw, an Australian artist who uses different paint techniques to make psychedelic landscapes reflected in bodies of water. First of all, we used watercolours to make our sunset backdrops and we then moved on to experiment with different types of marbling to decorate paper which we will use as our landscape features…
Once our marbling was nice and dry, we spent some time cutting out and arranging our landscape features above and below our horizon line to give the effect of reflections in water.
After a few weeks of working on their artwork inspired by Kate Shaw, Monday Art Club have finished their beautiful pieces. On Monday afternoon, Mr Jones and Mrs Bowkett popped in for a sneaky peek at the results, now it’s your turn…