Yr 3 had a wonderful art session with the resident artist today.They focused on creating a contemporary take on the painting: The Finding of Moses. They briefly recapped on the painting from the Take One Picture project. They had a practise at drawing the outline or silhouette of a pose. They then created their own tableau of poses which were drawn onto a pre- painted piece of cardboard. They investigated the work of the Brazilian street artist, Eduardo Kobra. They focused on cutting out vinyl triangular shapes and arranging them in the style of Kobra on their tableau silhouette. They then looked at their work and noticed that it wasn’t as colourful as Kobra’s artwork so more triangular and diamond shapes were added using felt tips.

The children continued to look at how Seurat used colours. They found out Seurat used optical colour mixing when he chose colours for his paintings. They used felt tips to mix primary colours. After that they experimented with mixing complementary colours. There were a few wows as they realised how effective the optical colour mixing was.

Year 3 looked at Seurat’s painting, Sunday on the Grande Jatte in detail. They looked for a variety of items like a pink butterfly, a monkey, a French flag as well as counting people. They enjoyed looking at the painting in great detail.

Year 3 spent time finding out about Georges Seurat and some of his pointillist artwork. They watched a video about his life and paintings and read a text about him. They then answered a few questions.

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This half term, year 3 will be finding out about Seurat and Pointillism. The will look at the painting, A Sunday on the Grande Jatte in detail. They will explore how Seurat used colours and will experiment with using felt tips, ear buds and fine paint brushes to practise their pointillist skills. They will then create their own pointillist artwork and then reflect on how they used colour. They will also express their opinions about his work giving reasons.

Year 3 completed their work on investigating patterns by using all they’d learnt : that patterns repeat themselves and that they can be reflected and rotated. The children had fun choosing their colours and using stamps to create their patterns.

Year 3 completed their work on investigating patterns. As you can see below some fantastic work indeed.

Investigating patterns by completing a design in a different colourway.

Using a stencil to and using sketching skills to create patterns.

Using Rotation and symmetry to create a new pattern

Observing and copying patterns found on animals

Designing a pattern for a purpose

Year 3, learnt how to transfer an image of Santa in a Snow globe onto another piece of paper. They then outlined their transfer and coloured it in. Some children chose to design their own picture. These images will be copied onto card, making a special Christmas card to take home.

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The children spent some time reflecting on their clay models, looking at their designs, their bases and models. They discussed then wrote about what they were pleased with, what they learnt and considered changes they could make in the future if they made a similar model again.

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Year 3 created a Christmas tree collage using blue paper. They then embellished their trees with silver and blue sparkles. Year 6 created a Christmas tree collage using gold paper. The trees will be adding a splash of colour to the COVID testing centre in Newport.

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