Blog by Tag: Art

Artistic Egyptians  in Year 3 get creative.

Ancient Egypt comes to Brookside as year 3 discover

the ancient art of making papyrus paper.

Year 3 have been making collages of Ziraffe Girrafe. We are learning abuot this story in literacy. Ziraffe was given as a present to France in 1827.

Year 3 recreate Stone Age cave drawings.

Year 3 have been learning about both local artists and more established artists from long previous Centuries.

Here is some work about French artist Henri Matisse.

In Year 1 we have been exploring portraits through drawing and painting.

We compared our work to other artists such as Modigliani. 

Year 1 have been creating portraits using drawing, painting and collage skills.

The children gave themselves a hat for the season in which they were born. 

Reception have been learning all about the importance of of Remembrance day. Using a paint app on the ipads we used our skills to draw poppies. We learnt why Poppies are important to help us remember all the soldiers.

Children used different shading techniques to create our artwork as part of our Remembrance Day activities.

Today, the children learnt about the importance of 'Rainbow foods' in our diet and were encouraged to try new foods.  The children had lots of fun creating food collages inspired by the Italian artist, Guiseppe Arcimbaldo. 

Year 3 have been studying the art of Henri Matisse. As a tribute to his famous collage 'The snail' we created our own collage animals. Enjoy!

We have looked at where a number of famous artists created their most celebrated works of art and mapped them on our European map.. We have examined the work of Henri Matisse and his famous collage The snail. As a result we created our own animal collages in his style.