Challenge 3 - Let The Sunshine In...

Hello again, and thank you all for taking part in last week's challenge - you produced some amazing FaceTime pictures. If you haven't already, check them out in the virtual exhibition:

https://artatmg.blogspot.com/2020/04/facetime-exhibition.html

This week's challenge is a special one. You may have heard on social media that the new Nightingale Hospitals wanted some art work. We thought you'd like to get involved. However, it turns out that they don't want any art work actually sent to them but would like to be able to see it online. We thought this would be an excellent opportunity for you all to show your amazing, creative skills, as well as say a big thank you by sending some much needed cheer and happiness to ALL front line workers from the NHS, to people ensuring our transport system continues to run, carers, shop assistants, delivery drivers, warehouse workers, postal workers, teachers, farmers, police, soldiers and anyone else who is going to work to keep us all safe and well at home.

So......as this week's title suggests we are going to.... 

Let The Sunshine In 

....and create the happiest, brightest, most cheerful and positive pieces of art we can for them!

Rose has already been busy with this wonderful picture of the sun rising over some fields.

Here are some possible ideas, inspired by some great artists.
You may have seen our 'I Love MG' picture outside Miss Jennings' office. It was inspired by this image.

Peter Blake often uses bright, bold motifs in his work, including rainbows.

You could do something similar with your own message.

One of MG Art Club's favourite artists is Romero Britto - his pictures are always so bright, positive and happy.
Some children have had a go at them in the past. When it came to painting them, they did it really slowly and carefully, a bit at a time - it took some of them up to 4 hours to do them!

Below is some more information on Romero Britto and some examples of his work.

Here are some things that Year 4 said about his style:

One of his most famous pictures is this cat one:

Here is a practice one if you want to try it, before attempting your own Britto-inspired art work. You don't have to use paint - felt pens (just watch out for smudging your lines), colouring quite hard with colouring pencils or collage would work as well.

Many people have been inspired to create some bright bold art by Kandinsky's circle pictures.

You could use the idea of colourful circles to create different scenes, including vases of flowers. We are sure frontline workers would like the gift of flowers to say thank you. 

Finally, the artist Hunderwasser was inspired by Kandinsky himself. Can you see how?

Again his pictures are colourful, bright, bold and easily adapted to inspire your own art.

The frontline workers have seen a lot of great rainbow art, which is brilliant but this week we want to go beyond the rainbows (although you could include one somewhere in your art, just like Peter Blake) and create some other images to cheer them after their long work shifts.

Sorry this has been such a long post!

Good Luck!

If you could send a photo of your art to:

MGartclub@missiongrove.org.uk by Friday 10th April, we'll try and share this weeks exhibition as widely as possible so we can share it with as many key workers as we can.

LETS GO BRIGHT

LET'S GO BOLD

LET THE SUNSHINE IN