New Recruits V

Last week we met the new, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed set of Year 3 Camera Clubbers. As ever, we started with our first Curved and Straight Challenge to get them to look at everyday things a little differently, test out their new cameras and see if they had an eye for a shot. Once again we were amazed by their creativity and the pictures they took...

The First Challenge from Art@MG on Vimeo.

We couldn't fit all their pictures into the mini movie, so here are a few more....
If you go to MG, can you recognise where the pictures were taken? Are they curved or straight? What is the object in each picture?

Congratulations & Celebrations!

What a fantastic couple of weeks Art@MG has had! Achieving the Arts Council's Gold ArtsMark Award; winning the EarthWatch #springintoaction photo competition; Louie rubbing shoulders with artists at City Hall celebrating being a Fourth Plinth finalist and the first wave of Year 3 and 4 getting their Arts Awards. 

Flower Power!

This week, Year 2 started doing some plant art to complement their work in Science.
We warmed up by drawing as many different flowers as we could, focusing on different shaped petals and petal formations.

Then we reminded ourselves about Vincent Van Gogh and focused on his famous sunflower series of paintings.

We set about creating our own large vase of flowers to brighten up our classrooms. We used oil pastels, choosing our own colour combinations, but really trying to blend our colours as we shaded them in. Some of us drew round our pencil pots for our centre, while some us drew them freehand. All of us tried to create large flowers.

When our petals were all coloured in, we glued beans, seeds and pulses in the centre of our flower. Some of us used them to create patterns, while some of us placed them randomly.

Some of our finished ones, waiting for the glue to dry.....

When they dried, they were cut out and arranged in our very own Van Gogh inspired vases in each of our classrooms.