Drawing

In the Autumn term we focused on drawing in our Art lessons. We looked at our Crucial Knoweldge, we spent time looking at differnt artisits and then made our own art based on the skills and knowedge we have learned about.

Year 1 have enjoyed learning about what Art is and we were very excited to get our own sketchbooks! We have recapped what ‘tone’ is from last year and learned two new drawing techniques – hatching and stippling. We had fun practising these techniques in our new sketchbooks using pencil and oil pastels too.  We looked at the artist George Seurat and discovered that he used ‘stippling’ too!! We made our own self-portraits in the style of Seurat.

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This term Year 2 have enjoyed recapping the use of line from Year 1 and building on this by leanring how to shade and add texture to fruit to make it look real. We studied how fruit looks close up and used pencils to create our work. We looked at the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo and made our own protrait of fruit. .

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This term in Year 3 we have learnt about the French Artist Paul Cezanne. We spent time sketching with different pencils and experimenting with pastels and charcoal. We sketched items from different perspectives and have had a go at creatign different textures and making our objects look 3D. We have really enjoyed our art and we are really proud of the work we have produced.

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This term we have learned about sketching, pencil types and shading. We spent time practising by focusing on creatign 3D objects such as cubes and shading them so that they appeared 3D. For our final art projects, we used inspiration from Van Gogh to create final pieces that reflected 3D properties, utilising scale and lighting. We really enjoyed experimenting with the different pencils and were clearly able to understand the differences they had and were abke to pick our favourites for specific jobs.

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Year 5 have absolutely loved learning about a local artist – Maurice Wade – who was born in Wolstanton and attended Burslem School of Art. They were impressed by his Pot Banks piece and drew inspiration from this for their own pieces as well as how to use the local area for inspiration. The children learnt about single focal points and how this can be used to draw the viewer’s eyes in and really focus on the main part of the drawing. The children chose to draw trees, pot banks and the Apedale wheel as their focal points. Recapping their shading and texture techniques from last year really helped them develop lovely drawings. 

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During the Autumn Term, Year 6 have recapped all their previous skills on drawing which included shading, perspective, horizon, textures and tone and used it to create pieces of artwork that really stood out. The children learnt about Van Gogh and the different pieces of art he created. We focussed on ‘Road in Etten’ and looked at the different drawing skills that were used. The children had a go at practising perspective and horizon and trialled using the different art pencils that create different shades and tones before using these skills to create their own drawing masterpieces.  

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