During the former we focused on portraying teddies in a variety of media (pencil, pencil and paint wash in the style of Gwen John and Denise Fielder type newspaper collage teddy pictures and symmetrical black and white collage teddies)
Then it was mini beast madness! We used some of Eric Carle's books to introduce a new mini beast each week, creating:cork print ladybirds; finger print bees in flower gardens; revising our primary colours with our Mondrian style spider webs; we then tried our hand at some stained glass butterflies in an homage to Damian Hirst; finally we made our own mini beasts using the corks we used for printing at the start of the term and some garden cable wire. All our work has since gone home and once again, foolishly not enough pictures were taken......
Meanwhile Year 2 were busy learning about Australia, Climates and Special people. We looked at some Aboriginal Rock Art - Wandjinis; drew Uluru focusing on perspective and our use of colour; looked at Aboriginal dot paintings depicting Dreamtime journeys. Here are some examples from our sketchbooks as all the originals have gone home after they were displayed....
Each class created their own Aboriginal stencil backdrops for their Topic wall - this is Skylarks. They use warm, early paint, which they sponged over long strips of paper, then used stencils and chalk pastels for symbols.
Wandjinis based on Aboriginal cave paintings
from charcoal, chalk and pastels.
Uluru - oil pastels and paint wash
Practising Dreamtime journey symbols with felt pens
before we did versions using paint applied with the end of a
pencil rubber and/or the end of a paintbrush.
To tie in with their Geography work on climates, we focused on hot and cold colours working towards a hot and cold still life picture using oil pastels.
We then looked at the polar regions, reinforcing that penguins live in the south and polar bears live in the north with our chalk and oil pastel pictures.
For our Significant person we looked at Picasso, creating our own front on and profile abstract portraits using felt pens.
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