Author Archives: Amy

For the first part of this term we are going to be focusing on colour and patterns for our topic. Today we have been having fun trying out oil pastels! For our first task everyone drew round their hand and tried making patterns using opposite colours in the colour wheel!Everyone enjoyed exploring mark making withContinue reading “Oil Pastel Patterns & Monsters”

Today we started our canvas painting mini project. The children decided they enjoyed the more express style of illustrations and cartoons. Since their last session they had planned their final piece at home and spent today finalising their drawing and beginning to paint, using what we had learnt about colour mixing last month. Next FridayContinue reading “Our Canvas Painting Mini Project”

As something a little bit different this week we had several activities available today. We had egg painting, daffodil collages, pom-pom chicks and Easter colouring pages. Everyone loved painting eggs and making collages! The pom-poms were tricky and we ended up only getting three done, we probably need more time if we make pom-pom chicksContinue reading “Easter Arts & Craft”

Today we have been planning our canvas painting for next week. The children had the choice of painting a self portrait, painting of someone they know or an imaginary character. After choosing what they wanted to do they drew and had a go at painting the figure/portrait. This helped with practicing colour mixing and findingContinue reading “Planning Our Canvas Painting”

Today we had lots of fun painting pictures based on our favourite stories. Some chose to paint scenes from their chosen stories and others had a go at recreating the book covers.There was a choice of different sized brushes, sponges, cotton wool, wool, cardboard, bubble wrap and plastic palette knives to use. Everyone had theirContinue reading “Our Favourite Stories”

Today we had a look at some different illustrations of characters and the children chose an illustration each to have a go at recreating. First they drew the outline with pencil and then they used fine liner pens to ink the outline before colouring them in using some brush tip pens. One of the childrenContinue reading “Illustrations of People”

Today we have been doing some observational drawings of some plants. The children had lots of different materials to choose from to create their art and we ended up with a variety of different pictures! Some of the children even decided to turn their art into cards for family members. Next week we will beContinue reading “Plant Life Drawing”

Today we practiced both our observational drawing skills and using construction line to help us to draw accurately.During the first part of the session we drew simple pencil sketches of a person from a photograph and had a go at doing some shading. We also had a go at trying to fill the page more.Continue reading “Drawing a Portrait”

Today everyone has had so much fun recreating their gardens at home or creating an imaginary garden using lots of different materials. We had tissue paper, wool, pompoms, boxes, ribbons, buttons, fabric and lots of different types of paper. Everyone loved all the different shiny materials we had! They also enjoyed practicing their scissor skillsContinue reading “Our Garden Collages”