30 Hours Provision
What a fabulous two weeks we have had in 30hrs learning all about different artists. The children were interested in this theme and excited to join in.

To start the week we focused on an artist called Tom Yendell. He works by painting with his feet. The children found this very tricky to copy but extremely fun. Placing the brush into their toes they tried hard to paint pictures, moving onto their mouths next like the artist Ranjit Bhamra.

Next we focused on black and white abstract art where we copied patterns from pictures and portrayed them in our own art work with paint and rollers. We also enjoyed colouring black and white picture of ourselves to give us different coloured features. 

We have also covered artists like Van Gogh and found ourselves enjoying doing some observational drawings of sunflowers and objects around the room and re created his famous ‘starry night’ picture with wax crayons. 

‘Kandinsky’s - circles’ was another peice of art work we looked at and used cut out circles and glue to design our own work inspired by this. 

We moved onto an artist called Jackson Pollock and worked as a team to make one large piece of art in the tuff tray. We used red, yellow, blue and white paint and used it in the same way Jackson did by dripping, splashing and pouring paint. 

To end the week we have painted our own self portraits like Frida Kahlo and added flowers and leaves as decoration, adding each child’s individual styles to their work and then finished by studying Clarice Cliffs ceramic work and using clay to make our own pieces to dry and take home. 

A very busy and educational two weeks!