This week, our young artists brought their learning to life by creating their own 3D cactus projects. Building on last week’s observations, students explored form and structure by constructing cactuses that stand upright, developing a stronger understanding of three-dimensional design. In addition, students created flower drawings inspired by their observations, similar to the example shown. […]
Ms Staines’s Class – Art Update – T3-W2
This week, our Year 3–4 students proudly completed their canvas bag projects, adding final touches with acrylic paint to enhance the vibrancy and detail of their designs. Each finished piece beautifully reflects their creativity and personal interpretation of Vincent van Gogh’s style. After completing their bags, students began a new task by sketching another Van […]
Ms Temple’s Class – Art Update – T3-W2
This week, our Year 5–6 students explored portrait-making inspired by Picasso’s unique artistic style. Using thick cardboard, they carefully cut and assembled facial features such as the shape of the face, eyes, nose, and mouth. They then added paint to enhance texture and depth, creating a strong three-dimensional effect. Each student produced a highly individual […]
Mr Dunn’s Class – Art Update T3 W2
This week, our Year 7-9 students continued their stained glass project. Last week, they explored the theme of sunrise and mountains, while this week they were given the freedom to choose their own themes. Instead of using tissue paper, they worked with cellophane to apply colour, allowing them to experience and understand a greater variety […]
Mrs Sim’s Class – Art Update – T3-W1
This week, our young artists worked on cactus-themed sketching. We explored where cactuses grow, how they develop, and how their body parts are structured through discussion. The children observed how light affects colour and practised using pencil tones to create shading and a sense of three-dimensional form. They then used paint to apply colour, adjusting […]
Ms Staines’s Class – Art Update – T3-W1
This week, our Year 3–4 students continued their study of Impressionist artists from last term.To explore new materials, students worked on black canvas bags using acrylic marker pens.They chose a Vincent Van Gogh artwork as a reference and recreated it in their own unique style. Because the bags are something they can use in their […]
Ms Temple’s Class – Art Update – T3-W1
This week, students explored how to express different emotions through facial forms using paper. Instead of drawing, they created their work by cutting and shaping paper, which encouraged a more hands-on and experimental approach. They learned about positive space (the parts that form the face) and negative space (the areas that are removed), and how […]
Mr Dunn’s Class – Art Update T3 W1
This week, students in Years 7–9 learned about stained glass, including how coloured glass is made, cut, and assembled using thin metal lines. For the activity, instead of using glass, students created stained glass–inspired artwork using black paper and tissue paper. The cut-out sections were filled with various colours of tissue paper to mimic the […]
Mrs Sim’s Class – Art Update – T2-W11
This week, Year 1–2 students continued exploring portrait art inspired by Picasso, focusing on creative and experimental approaches to faces and the human body. Switch-a-Face BoxStudents experimented with drawing different parts of the body—face, upper body, and lower body—on separate sides of a box. By rotating the box, they could create new and unexpected combinations, […]
Ms Staines’s Class – Art Update – T2-W11
This week, our Year 3 – 4 students continued their Camille Pissarro inspired art project by beginning the painting stage. Students learned how to use watercolour paints to create different colour tones by adding water and adjusting the intensity of the colours. We also discussed the differences between acrylic paint and watercolour paint, focusing on […]