Last term, one of our favourite art activities was to create an alien from our name. As we were putting our Book Week Fire Paintings and book reviews on display, Ellen took down our previous art work.

We had been investigating symmetry in maths and of course as we were also learning about space last term in science, it made sense back then to create some aliens. To make them, Ellen wrote our names in pencil using old fashioned loopy writing, we traced them on a folded piece of cartridge paper. Then we had fun turning them into strange creatures. We gave them an appropriate name and chose a coloured background to make them stand out.

What do you think?

It will be sad to see them go as they looked great guarding the walls of our corridor.

Did you try to make an alien out of your family member’s names?

Can you remember how to make them?

Budding Cartoonists are stretching their skills

For the last few Friday art lessons we have been learning the skills of cartooning, paying particular attention to drawing faces. We have learnt that there is a lot of maths involved in art, there are a lot of fractions to remember indeed. We need to divide our oval shape into quarters and then find the half way points to get positions for facial features. It has been fun. We have a special drawing pad that we can use to develop our drawing skills. Now that we are almost confident in faces we are experimenting with expressions. Stay tuned for some of our work right now we are busy learning…..

We have been careful not to press too hard and to tickle the page with our pencil. While we draw Ellen plays some classical music. At the moment we are listening to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart an Austrian composer who was born in 1756. The music is creative and inspiring.  He composed his first symphony at the age of eight. We were impressed when we heard that.

This painting of Mozart was painted posthumously (after his death) by Barbara Krafft  1819

Mozart is a talented artist indeed and perhaps some of his genius may find its way to us even after all those years!