Paris skyline

Year 5 pupils have been studying Paris in Geography, so we have come up with some relevant Art and Craft lessons. These paintings were done on thick watercolour cartridge paper, using basic tempera blocks.

We have since been working on Impressionist paintings, and finding out about the Musee d'Orsay which houses many of them. In Craft lessons, the children made their own 3D patisseries, and have worked together on a traditional Parisian postbox. Pictures in future posts!

Nativity bunting

Our Year 7 pupils each made their own string of Nativity bunting, drawing their characters on triangular flags and arranging them in order. The examples here are scanned and coloured using Flash. 

Here are the template and instructions.

Rooks

Year 4 pupils have been watching the rooks that nest in the trees around school, and making ink drawings and torn paper collages.

Fantastic shoes

Year 7 have spent a lot of time on shoes - drawing them in various media, photographing them in action and creating these fantastic sculptures.

Inspired by Ronald Searle

Year 4 used ink and wash to make their own interpretations of Ronald Searle's drawings. We looked at his Molesworth and St Trinian's work, as well as Fabulous Beasts.

Fish

Year 6 pupils worked with oil pastels and Brusho for this set of fish paintings.

 The second set are drawn with Indian ink and a dip pen, and painted with watercolour.

The project culminated in three-dimensional models of fish heads, made with cardboard, foil and tissue paper, and mounted as trophies.

Three-colour portraits

Ink portraits by Year 8 pupils (and me). We used photos taken in bright sunlight, reducing the colours to four shades of grey with Photoshop. Pupils transferred their portraits with graphite and painted them with inks.