We are reading ‘Emlyn’s Moon’
by Jenny Nimmo.
In it, the main character Nia made a fabric collage.
We made our own fabric collages.
These are the collages 2nd Class Room 6 made last year.
We are reading ‘Emlyn’s Moon’
by Jenny Nimmo.
In it, the main character Nia made a fabric collage.
We made our own fabric collages.
These are the collages 2nd Class Room 6 made last year.
We got an idea for an art activity on Flickr.
It was to make a game of ‘Snakes and Ladders’
This is how they turned out:
When we read ‘Emlyn’s Moon’ by Jenny Nimmo,
one of the characters, Nia made a collage.
We thought this was a good idea
and we are going to make one too.
This is the work 2nd Class did last year.
We are looking forward to making our collages too.
This one is Aoibhin’s from last year.
To see the other works of art click on the link above.
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Great attention to detail Matthew. At 1st glance it’s hard to tell what’s original & which parts you added. Well done.
What we did today in Art:
First we chose a picture from an old calendar.
Then we took a ruler and pencil
and ruled vertical lines
as wide as the width of the ruler.
Then we cut along these lines
and cut the picture into strips.
We glued the strips down in the correct order
on a larger sheet of white paper
being careful to leave space between the strips.
We looked at the pictures and the colours in them.
We selected colours we would use
that would match these colours.
We drew in the white strips on the page
and coloured them in, to complete the picture.
We admired our work
and that of our friends.
This is also very good JC. Excellent observation and attention to detail. It turned out well.
We continue to have great fun with Digital Art Week,
which due to popular demand has been extended to a second week.
We made these pictures using the Collage Maker from
the National Gallery of Art’s Kidzone.
Here is the link if you would like to try it:
The Collage Machine from National Gallery of Art’s Kidzone
Many thanks to Adam, a TY student
who is here with us on Work Experience
who helped us do this today.
Many congratulations to Matthew who learned to
‘Print Screen’,
‘Paste’ in ‘Paint’,
‘Crop’ and ‘Save’.
We are participating in Digital Art Week
To start the week we made seaside collages online.
When you use:
‘Seasaws’ – online art activity from National Gallery of Art (Washington)
you can make pictures of the sea and shore.
We like this because we live beside the sea.
If you want to use ‘Scribbler’
to make pictures
like the pictures we made today
the link is here.
To save it, you have to press ALT and Print Screen (‘Prtscn’)
and then paste the screenshot using ‘Paint’.
This is a little complicated, but playing ‘Scribbler’
even without saving your picture is fun.
Earlier in the year we turned our names into aliens.
Art Activity: Turning our names into aliens.
Now we have given them a habitat.
Soon it will be Chinese New Year
We listened to the story of the
Chinese Willow Pattern.
Then we acted out the story.
To finish we made ‘statues’
of that dramatic point in the story
where Li Chi’s Father tells Chang he must leave
and Li Chi begs her father to let her marry Chang.
We would love to hear what you think of our art.
A Song for Chinese New Year from ‘Children’s Music’ by Nancy Stewart.
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A Reminder:
Please don’t leave your child to explore online unattended
The internet is a portal to the world outside.
Children should be accompanied on this journey 😉
When 2nd Class, Room 6 were studying
the very beautiful painting ‘Forest’ by Emily Carr,
they were fascinated by pictures they could see in the picture.
The students of 2nd Class, Room 6 said
this was like finding pictures in the clouds in the sky.
Here are some of the images they could see in the original work.
A dragon
A Pirate
A Horse
What can you see in the picture?
These are some of our pictures of trees.
Before we did our project we often drew trees
that looked like lollipops 😉
We learnt about colour, shape and angle,
looking at masterpieces by a variety of artists.
These included Vincent Van Gogh
and Georgia O’Keeffe .
These are some of the trees we drew today
at the end of our project on the theme of trees.
‘I found I could say things with color and shapes
that I couldn’t say any other way
– things I had no words for’.
Georgia O’Keeffe
Thanks again to Junior Art Gallery
whose link suggested this project to us.
We always appreciate feedback on our work 🙂
We would love you to comment!
We spent the past few weeks looking at masterpieces of trees:
Van Gogh’s ‘The Mulberry Tree’
Mondrian’s ‘Gray Tree’
and Emily Carr’s ‘Forest’
Georgia O’Keeffe’s ‘The Lawrence Tree’
and Klimt’s ‘Tree of Life’.
You can see more of this work on other posts
Now having studied these works of art and trees ‘in real life’,
we will draw our own trees.
Before this project the most popular way
of drawing trees in the class was often like this:
However take a look at this slideshow
of the trees we drew since:
Perhaps after looking at our trees you might guess
which artist’s work we liked the best.
Was it Van Gogh’s colourful ‘Mulberry Tree?’
or Emily Carr’s ‘Forest’.
In fact as you can see from the graph below,
one artist’s work was a runaway success.
The children explained their choice by saying that
there seemed to be something ‘magical’
about Klimt’s ‘Tree of Life’
2nd Class Room 6 are continuing with
their art project on tree paintings.
Follow this link to see the first part of our project on trees.
We looked at some other famous pictures of trees.
We loved Georgia O’Keeffe’s ‘The Lawrence Tree’
We loved the strong colour of the trunk,
the unusual angle of the painting
and the tiny stars in the sky.
We admired Emily Carr’s ‘Forest’
We were fascinated by
all the different colours of Emily Carr’s Forest.
We expected there might be green and brown.
But when we enlarged the painting on the whiteboard,
we could see blues, purples, yellows and lots of other colours.
Painting the sky and the grass is not like
painting a wall of our house or the kitchen door.
They are not all one colour blue or green.
Then we looked at Klimt’s wonderful ‘Tree of Life’.
We loved the bright colours, the branches
that curled round and round
and the little details among the branches.
To complete our project we are going to think about
colour, angle and shapes
and then draw our own trees.
“i thank You God for most this amazing day:
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;”
from a poem by ee cummings
When our friend at Junior Art Gallery posted this link on their blog…
encouraging us to do the interesting art, that is on this link in turn
2nd Class, Room 6 didn’t need to be asked twice.
We chose to begin with
Van Gogh’s ‘The Mulberry Tree’
and the very different ‘Gray Tree’ by Mondrian
and tried to create our own versions.
The Mulberry Tree is colourful
and not surprisingly The Gray Tree is very grey.
Over the next few weeks
we will take a look at the other trees on this link:
‘Lawrence Tree’ by Georgia O’Keeffe,
‘Forest’ by Emily Carr,
‘Pine Tree Screen’ by Hasegawa Tohaku
and ‘The Tree of Life’ by Gustav Klimt.
We are working towards then, drawing
our own trees experimenting with
colour, shape, and angle as these
artists have done.
‘Trees’ by 2nd Class Room 6 on PhotoPeach
Many thanks to Junior Art Gallery for pointing us in the direction of this great idea.
DLTK Kids Artwork Ideas (Arbor Day)
This is the link to the 2nd part of this project 🙂
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Today we listened to a beautiful song:
‘Winter Song’ by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson
‘Winter Song’ was familiar to many of the students
because it is currently being used in an often repeated
advertisement on the television.
We studied the lyrics.
We used our imagination
and we sketched some pictures
that the lyrics put into our heads.
Then we took a look at a
wonderful animation on Vimeo
to inspire us even further.
‘Winter Song’ by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson
Initially we used white chalk
on black sugar paper.
Then we added colour.
This is what we did:
These are the results:
Winter Pictures in Chalk on PhotoPeach
We would love to hear what you think of our artwork.
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We would love to hear from you.
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A Word to the Wise:
Please don’t leave your child to explore Vimeo or Photopeach unattended
The internet is a portal to the world outside. Children should be supervised.
Children from 2nd Class Room 6 entered this competition:
Junior Art Gallery’s ‘Favourite Christmas Food’ Art Competition
from Junior Art Gallery
We received a very nice email
and some entries were on Twitter.
Favourite Christmas Food – Some entries
to see the thirteen entries from 2nd class Room 6
in Junior Art Gallery’s
‘Favourite Food Competition’
on display in ‘The Happy Pear’.
Patrons are invited to vote for their favourite.
I love them all 😉
UPDATE: Happy News for Fiona and Mark
who received their prizes today in school.
Thank you to Junior Art Gallery for this opportunity and your kindness.
Fiona’s and Mark’s pictures are on this link: Junior Art Gallery