During the Summer term, the children in Year 6 took inspiration from the portrait sculpture work of Taslim Martin to explore how to create a portrait in clay.  The children deepened their knowledge of form and texture to create depth and represent different features.  The children also appraised the work of the animator Nick Park to understand how a sculptor can communicate an idea and emotion through their forms.  The pupils then created their [...]

In Year 5, the focus of drawing moves to representing perspective and detail whilst also starting to consider how to represent an idea or emotion.  As an inspiration for this, the children appraised the often emotion illustration of the artist and illustrator, Anthony Browne.  The children experimented with how to use perspective to create depth but also to create distance and isolation.  The contrasting use of geometric and organic shapes created a dreamlike quality [...]

Starting with an appraisal of a range of pieces of Islamic Geometric art, the children in Year 3 developed their understanding of the formal elements of line, shape and tone.  After securing their knowledge of the formal elements, the children explored and developed their ideas to create geometric, decorative images.  The endpoint of the unit was to create a piece of geometric art.

The children appraised some of the artwork David Hockney to understand how he used shapes, lines and tones.  After developing their knowledge of the formal elements, the children then experimented with different lines and shapes to create the features of natural scene.  At the end of the unit, all the children created their own piece of art.

In the Key Stage 2 Art club, the children have been developing their use of proportion to draw an image of a bird.  They have also explored the use of various lines to add detail and the use of mid, dark and light tines to create depth. The children have also experimented with different starting points to create their own bird cartoons.  They have found that stepping away from their preconceptions about how to [...]