The Colour Monster

Welcome back to the Art Blog my lovely Artists!

This week we are going to be creating our very own Colour Monster.

Follow along with the instructions from your classroom and enjoy!

 

Final Week!

Hello my lovely artists!

Thank you for joining me in creating art over the last 13 weeks! 

We have created some truly beautiful things and I am so grateful to all of you for joining in! 

This week, you can have a look back through all of the weeks and pick one you would like to try that you haven't, or do your favourite one again! 

This week you can be as creative as you want! Adapt one of them if you wish and use all the techniques you have learned. 

Enjoy!

Outer Space Week

Why not have a go at creating a solar system using salt dough? 

Use some card board as the backing and think about the order of the planets. Which ones are big? Which ones are small? 

Landscape Week!

This week, inspired by Isabella's suggestion, is Landscape Week!

Other nature inspired art you could do:

Go outside and create a picture using only natural materials you find in your garden / the woods

Try and find things are are colourful and have great patterns!

Take a photo and send it in / put in your folder on the portal! 

Keep your suggestions coming!

Chef Week!

 It's Snack-tastic Chef's week!
Thank you to Ryo and Isabella for the great suggestion!

Why not have a go at making some Salt Dough pizza - or any food!  You could make a mini kitchen-full! Fruit, vegetables! What ever! Have a look at the method below to remind yourself 

Thanks to Cassie Stephens!

Weaving Week!

Thank you for the suggestions this week! I've decided we are going to do a practical art week - and do some weaving! Keep an eye out next week as well for some of your requests. 

If you were in Year 3/4 last year, you might recognise these - thank you for suggesting it.  

Weaving is SUCH great fun! 

There may be a few tricky bits along the way so you'll need your resilience - but it's chock full of maths, hands-on learning and helps your fine motor skills! 

I LOVE it! 

If you're a newbie to weaving, start with the paper weaving, it will help you understand the 'over, under' technique you'll need. 

If you're a bit of an expert - go straight for the circle loom! You might need a bit of parent or sibling help to get this one started. 

Pet Week!

In hard and tough times, our pets often get us through! Even if you don't have one, let's celebrate our furry (and scaly) friends this week:

PET WEEK

There are two videos this week, super easy and cute 'Origami Pets', and 'I Love My Pet Selfies'!

There are also loads of pets you can draw here

Street Art Week

This week we are going to be looking at 
'Street Art'

Street art is any art created in public spaces.

Most street art is temporary and usually painting in unconventional places for art.

While it is illegal to just paint/draw on whatever you want, where ever you want, there are some ways in which artists can share their work, legally (and some not so!) Often they are paid to paint beautiful murals around cities and towns. 

One of my favourite things to do when exploring a new city, or even one we live in, is to have a look around for Street Art - you might even see some in your local town or on your walks - even if it's a 'tag' (which is not allowed as it is vandalism). Tags are done really quickly and are most called 'throw-ups', because they quite literally throw them up onto a surface, which often makes them look rushed (because the artists do not want to be caught and arrested!) 

Some take more time, or use stencils, to complete their work to a higher standard. Banksy, a famous street artist does this method a lot. 

Quite often, street artists portray a message through their art, like a political statement. Many believe that it is important to bring art to everyone, not just keep it in galleries! 

You might have heard of some famous street artists like Banksy and Keith Haring. Click on their names to learn more about them. 

This Banksy has just appeared outside a hospital in South Hampton in the last few weeks - can you think about what the message is here? Think about the NHSKeith Haring Mural 

Today we are going to look at two ways we can share the amazing style of graffiti artists without doing anything against the rules! 

Pick one, or both, and have a go!

https://www.graffiticreator.net/

Click here for the template!

Colouring in pages for Keith Haring

Here is some Street art from places I have visited around the world - maybe you have too!

The John Lennon Wall in Prague

An alley in Barcelona

Some examples of Street Art in Barcelona

Impressionist Week!

Welcome to Impressionist Week!

Impressionism is one of my favourite periods of art! 
Some of the most prominent artists  of the time were as Degas, Monet and Renoir. 
It was all about light, colour, and painting what they saw in front of them. 

Have a listen to the story below called 'Katie and the Impressionists' and then have a look at the options for art this week, plus - some bonus photos of me by my favourite paintings!

Directions:

* First, flatten/fold your cupcake liners in half and glue them to the center of your popsicle stick. This is the ballerina’s tutu.
* Repeat for each ballerina puppet you are making today.
* Once the cupcake liners are down, grab your paint pens and draw on a face, hair and of course – ballet slippers onto the popsicle stick.
* Glue on a “hairbow” paper punch out to finish the glamorous look.
* To finish off the cupcake liner and craft stick ballerina puppet, wrap/bend a single pipe cleaner a few times around the centre of the popsicle sticks to resemble arms.
* At this point you can also add other embellishments (like scrapbook stickers, glitter, gems) that you want to make it your own!

Here is photo of me by the real-life 'Waterlilies' by Monet in Paris! 

Find out more about Impressionism below! 

Superhero Week!

Welcome to Superhero Week! 

I know Class 2 and Class 5 have been looking at Superheroes, so, this is your chance to create some Superhero Art! 

Maybe you can use one you created as inspiration. 

There is one video this week.

And plenty more ideas below for you to choose from below as well!

Try one of these extras on your own, without a video! 

Instructions are next to them for this week, look at the pictures and follow the links to help you! 

Superhero Mask and Cuffs

1. First, think about what 3 colours would be your super hero colours. 
2. Design a motif or a symbol that defines you as a super hero, it could be a star, lightning bolt, heart, planet, anything!
3. Use 2 toilet rolls, cut one edge lengthways, and decorate with paint, coloured paper, and your symbols. You can glue your coloured paper over them if you want a smoother look!
4. Use this mask template: 
or make your own, matching the colours of your cuffs, and put your symbol on it too!
5. Make 2 small holes in your mask, tie some string
6. Wear, and you have your super hero disguise! 


Miniature Comic Book

1. Find some white paper and the supplies you need
2. Follow instructions in this link for how to make a mini book - you might need a bit of help from mum, dad or an older brother and sister for this one!
3. You can decorate your book how ever you want and write your own Superhero adventure!

 

Onomatopoeia Plaques

Another Salt Dough Favourite!

1. Find the supplies you need!
2. Make some Salt Dough, follow the link if you have forgotten how to make it!
3. Cut some cardboard from cereal boxes, or leftover, into cool shapes, some templates are here if needed. 
4. Use crayons, paint, coloured pencils to colour your background how ever you want!
5. Think of some onomatopoeia, or sound words that relate to super heroes like BOOM, POP, POP, SPLAT, CRASH
6. Create your word using Salt Dough onto your Plaque and leave to dry!
7. Once dry, you can paint and decorate how ever you want!
8. Use a whole punch to create 2 holes, and a pipe cleaner, or some string to hang your plaque!

This process can also be used to make really cool name plaques for you Bedroom Door, have a go if you want! 

Class 1, I know you love Supertato! So enjoy this audiobook too if you want to listen. And to anyone else that wants to! 

Inspired by Cassie Stephens