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Underwater Self-Portraits

In the beginning of Term 4, Year 2 participate in a 2 week Swimming Program. Back at school, they were very excited to share their swimming experiences. So fitting in with their recent experiences, Year 2 drew Underwater Self-portraits. 
The idea was also inspired by another popular art blog, useyourcolouredpencils.
To begin, Year 2 looked at pictures of people swimming and discussed what physical changes happen underwater, For example, our hair goes wavy, our cheeks get puffy, we open our eyes wider to see.
Students used mirrors to assist in sketching their "underwater faces" and included items such as goggles, flippers and rash vests in their drawing.
After this, year 2 used oil pastels to colour their self-portraits and added ripples in the background with white pastel.
Finally, watercolour paint was added and the artwork was glued onto our bubble frames which we made by printing with old glue sticks and white paint.
They did a fantastic job! Well done Year 2!

Andy Warhol's Cats.

Andy Warhol loved cats. He had many, many cats all called Sam! Year 1 drew cats and painted them with bright watercolours.

Here are some of Andy's cats:

Here are some of Year 1's cats:

Andy Warhol's Soup Cans

Year 1 have been learning about Andy Warhol and Pop Art as part of their unit of work about the past.
Andy Warhol was the world's first art celebrity. He is famous for his artworks of Campbell's Soup cans.

Andy painted Soup Cans because he ate soup everyday for lunch. He didn't think art had to be important or special. Andy thought art was in everyday life.

I found these Pop Art cans in the supermarket just as Year 1 were starting their Pop Art topic. Aren't they fantastic? I think they will make great pencil tins for the art room, once I've eaten the soup!

Year 1 designed their own Warhol inspired Soup Cans. Students practiced their 3D shapes by drawing cylinders. Year 1 students also experimented with using bright acrylic paints and invented brand new soup flavours! 

Beautiful Butterflies

Year 2 have been developing their blending techniques with oil pastels. Oil pastels can be blended together to create a soft, smooth painted effect. 

Here are oil pastels that are not blended:

Here are oil pastels that have been blended (pressing the lightest colour on top):

Year 2 did these practice sheets first, which we cut out and framed on black card. 

 Year 2 have since used the oil pastels to create beautiful Monarch Butterflies. They blended yellow and orange together to create bright wings and combined white, light blue and dark blue to make a vibrant background. Finally the black edges were added and the result is wonderful! Well done Year 2!

The original idea for this lesson was from a fantastic website called Art For Kids Hub which has brilliant tutorials and worksheets! Check it out!

Seascapes

3 Things Year 2 learnt while creating their seascapes:

1. What is a horizon?

A horizon is the line where the land or sea meets the sky. It is horizontal.

2. What is stippling?  

Small short touches (with paint or ink) that together produce an even or softly graded shadow.

3. How do you blend watercolours together?

Paint your paper with water first, then add the colour on top. Keep using water as you paint.

Bees

 Lesson 1

Year 1 discussed tessellating patterns and looked at the tessellating hexagonal design inside honeycomb.
We draw our own honeycomb by tracing around hexagons with a yellow pastel. It was a bit tricky making our own tessellating patterns but I thought Year 1 did extremely well and were very resilient!
After this step, we painted each hexagon using watercolour paints.

Lesson 2

Year 1 students each had a turn doing printmaking. I had carefully carved a bee out of lino, which Year 1 students rolled black paint onto with rollers, then pressed the lino on to their honeycomb paintings.
The result is fantastic! Well done Year 1!