At Art Skills Academy, our KS1 and KS2 pupils have been developing their drawing skills by exploring shading techniques using sketching pencils. This exciting unit focused on creating still life drawings while learning how to add shadows and depth to make artwork look more realistic. The children began by experimenting with different pencils, discovering how light and dark tones can
Category: Art & Design
In year 1 we refreshed our memories and mixed primary colours together to make secondary colours.
We enjoyed designing and making our own London taxis. The children learnt about axels and how to fit them to the ‘chassis’ of their vehicles. They then tested their taxis; making sure that their wheels were secured properly.
Our Year 5s have been using their photography skills this week to produce some fantastic black and white photos. We have been exploring line, light and shadows this term in art and this has added another skill we can use to produce creative and thought-provoking artwork. Our next task is to pick one of our pictures to recreate using various
This topic shows us how Islamic Art is made from lots of different geometric patterns, namely stars! We had a go at making our own Islamic art through cutting stars of various designs and using gold and silver to decorate them. This will help us design our own motif and geometric tile later in the topic. Have a look at
In art we learnt about collagraphy. Children made their own printing blocks out of string, bubble wrap, corrugated card, string and other items they could find. They then painted it with special ink and created their own print. They were really pleased with their finished art work!
The children used clay to explore how to create sharp and spiky textures. They used their fingers to manipulate the clay and created some wonderful examples. We thought they looked just like real-life stalagmites!
2C were challenged to paint a composition using a given template where they had to first mix three secondary colours and then paint using both primary and secondary colours to complete their work. They tried hard to place colours next to each other which looked pleasing to the eye.