LO: Using oil pastels, create a Dali inspired piece of artwork

In today's Art Club lesson we discussed the work of the great Salvador Dali.

Dali was a prominent surrealist painter born in Spain. He was a skilled artist and best known for his striking and bizarre images.

Children were each given a research sheet (below) containing many images of Dali's masterpieces for them to study and gain inspiration from.

                                     

Surrealism is an art movement that began in the 1920s that experimented ways of unleashing and portraying the imagination.

For the children to fully understand this genre of art I explained to them that it's all about putting things together that normally wouldn't be seen together!

A clock-fish on a treadmill!

A bumble-bee on rollerblades!

                                     

Inspired by Dali's melted clocks.

Pig girl!

   

Such a beautiful colour combination.

A sausage dog-elephant surrounded by melted clocks!

Year 6 DT / Art Project- LO: Design and create a toy boat

Year 6 students were set the challenge of designing and making a toy boat. 

In their English lessons they were reading Micheal Morpurgo's Kensuke's Kingdom. This is a fantastic story all about a young boy that travels around the world in a boat with his parents, after they lose their jobs at the brickworks. They travel from England to many different places....  













Children were allowed to work alone or in groups no greater than four.

Once the challenge was set they were given a design pack that contained a checklist and step-by-step instructions of the design process that they had to complete, e.g;

    - Brief
    - Sketching designs (with Research sheet as guide)
    - Materials required
    - Equipment needed
    - Drawing of proposed design
    - Photographs to document project
    - Evaluation
    - What I would do better next time 

Each child was given a Research sheet for guidance, if needed.

Children researched online to find geographical facts and attached them to their boats.

I'm so proud of the beautiful and creative results!

                                        


                                           

They worked so well together and were really enthusiastic about this project.

                                 

Well done Year 6!

                              

LO: Portraits of characters from Floodland

The book that Year 5 children are reading in their English lessons, Floodland, is sadly coming to an end. 

As there are no images of the characters in this story, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to finish the term with a portrait lesson and allow the children to use their imagination to paint their own interpretation of a character of their own choice.

Every child had a proportions of the face and colour mixing help sheet.

Using their knowledge from the text as to what the characters may look like, they sketched then painted their portraits. 

Many children chose to paint the main character Zoe, whilst others picked Munchkin, Rat, Molly, Sarah, Spat...

                             

Children were only given primary colours, as well as black and white to experiment with tone.

   

LO: Make a Henry Moore sculpture out of clay

Art Club were very excited to be able to experiment with clay for the first time today! 

They were set the challenge to sculpt in the style of the great Henry Moore. They used the research sheet below and had a go at drawing some sketches in Moore's style, as well as their proposed design, whilst I divided out the clay.

Here's the spectacular results from Art Club... 

                          

Titled: Girl and Piano

Henry Moore was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art.

                     

                           

Children described his work as, "abstract, smooth, motherly, creative..."

Titled: Malteser Mountain                          

Great to see that the Henry Moore Team love Art Club's sculptures too! Keep up the good work guys!

Once the clay sculptures were dry, children were able to paint. There was no restrictions when it came to colour. Children chose whatever colours they desired to express themselves at that moment in time.

I was fascinated watching the children paint. The colours that they chose changed their sculptures entirely. You were forced to look at them completely differently! :)