Year 3

Joan Miró

Our current artist is Joan Miró and we are creating a game to learn more about his art. We have studied his paintings and are choosing our favourite elements from them and drawing them onto these cube nets. Then we play a game in which we throw our own dice to choose elements to create our own watercolour painting! What do you think?

Jen Stark

Y3 are looking at art and artists and studying Jen Stark. She makes modern installations in large sections of acrylic. We don't have quite the same workshop capabilities as she does, and we are looking at colour and style so we painted our own version. These gorgeous sections of monochrome and colour will be pieced together to make an installation of our own!

Andy Warhol

Y3 are looking at art and artists this week and our artist is Andy Warhol! We looked at the famous flower prints with more than 1 colour and remembered that we have screen printing skills. We drew a leafy background and then used 2 screens to layer the coloured flowers over the top.

Our Weaving Project

We've been exploring textiles in Y3 and learning to weave them together to create art. Our boxes of pipe cleaners, beads, wool, raffia and all sorts of fabric have been absolutely dug though! We have learned to add pieces into ourr work and finally to take them off the looms to create a hanging piece of art.  We even had special visitors for one session - can you spot our celebrity guest in the big photo?

Sandrine Pellissier Forests

Sandrine Pellissier has inspired our lovely subtle forests. The trees are covered in pattern and we reclaimed the negative space from our ink-dropped backgrounds. It's such an interesting process and one we found really relaxing!

Our new Artist - Sandrine Pellissier

Sandrine Pellissier is a French artist who lives and works in Canada. We have spent some time this week analysing her process and videos and we have decided to start with an abstract background of dropped ink. Soaking watercolour paper and playing with ink while not muddying the colours was our challenge! While they were drying we started to plan a forest composition in our sketch books. 

Glazing our clay cupcakes

Look at our lovely work! This week we started the long job of layering underglaze to make our cupcakes gorgeous and shiny. They are looking white and brittle and there has been a big transformation in the kiln. Only a few small decorations have fallen off - a little more scratch and slip next time, we think! 

Creating Cup Cakes from Clay

Our learning before the Michelmas term was all about the ways in which we can create form with drawing and painting. Now we are creating real physical form in clay! We have designed and made cupcakes, using different methods which include coiling, pinching and slabs. See if you can spot the different skills we have learned in our photos.

Painting with Form

We are using our lessons in light, shadow, and form to paint in watercolour now, continuing to search for highlights and shadows. Our baubles for Christmas show that we are starting to create more and more realistic paintings. 

Drawing with Form

Y3 have been having lessons in light, shadow, and where they can look for these things on objects. We started in the simplest way - by turning a circle into a ball! Using graphite sticks we learned to find the best ways to shade curves, gradients and to erase for more light where we needed to. 

Our own mini Eleanor McColl pieces

Here are the almost finished pieces of work we have been creating under the guidance of our artist in residence. We looked at abstracting art from real objects and created stylized slices of Hong Kong life in acrylics on wooden tiles.

 Now that we are in KS2 our painting skills need to be upgraded for some complicated projects! Working in acrylics, with just the primary colours we are learning to pull our paint to smooth it, and drag out our brush strokes. Using this vocabulary helps us to remember that we have different ways to use acrylic and that we will be exploring many of them this year. We used masking tape to plan these abstract shape paintings with strong colour blocks.