Art – Holbeach Blog

Red Class Are Artists

Today, we looked at some art works by Chris Ofili.

“She has big eyes.”

“A necklace.”

“She has red lipstick.”

“I like her hair.”

“A monkey!”

“It has a very long tail.”

“What is he holding?”

“He’s got a hat!”

“I don’t like it, she’s sad.”

“She’s crying.”

“Her chest is a fire.”

This week in Red Class we’re going ‘Into The Woods’, so we used this picture by Chris Ofili to inspire our drawings of trees.

We decided not to use a special ingredient Chris Ofili has used in the past, if you don’t know what it is ask Red Class.

As we couldn’t go to the museum, we decided to bring the museum to Holbeach!

In the morning, we set up a museum in class and sketched some birds.

We had a picnic in the park. It was lovely and sunny. Nursery joined us too!

After lunch, we made our own birds out of clay. They look wonderful. Well done everyone!

Last week we were experimenting with hot and cold colours. We then wove those colours using paper and card.

This week we have been weaving with ribbon and a felt like material to create hot and cold patterns.

The children enjoyed the process and showed lots of patience when weaving.

Last week we looked at hot and cold colours. Today we learned how to weave paper. We used either hot or cold colours for our weaving.

First we created the weft – the part held in tension (frame). We did this by folding card and cutting into lines into it.

Then we used the strips of paper for the weft – the part that is woven through the frame in an over and under pattern.

Today we played with clay for the first time. We were a little bit reluctant at first but soon got stuck in and made lots of mess!

We used lots of language to describe the clay such as cold, wet, slimy and hard.

Next we used the clay to make a collaborative painting.