https://artatmg.blogspot.com/2020/05/youve-got-to-move-it-exhibition.html
This week's challenge is inspired by the fact that we are all being encouraged to go outside a little more (while remaining safely socially-distanced of course!). It harks back to our very first Through The Window Challenge, 9 weeks ago. At that stage we were being encouraged to stay in and just see the world 'through our windows'. To remind you what we did, look back at our very first exhibition:
https://artatmg.blogspot.com/2020/03/through-window-virtual-exhibition.html
However this week,
we're going beyond the window and
Back To Nature.
Your challenge this week is to find inspiration for your art in nature. This could mean:
- using natural materials for some/all of your art work
- finding a natural object and using it as a basis for your art
- creating a nature based scene/landscape
- or creating anything you want as long as it is inspired by the natural world
To give you some ideas or extra inspiration if you need it, here are 5 very different artists, who are inspired by nature in their artwork. There are many, many others.
Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy creates art works out of natural materials, usually in a natural setting. He is known for his use of spirals, arches, reflections and wiggly paths - all made from natural materials.
We looked at his work in Year 1, collected our own natural materials and used them to create out own art work.
William Morris
William Morris was inspired by nature to create his intricate design patterns. He particularly liked the symmetry of nature and often repeated this in his designs.
In Year 4 we looked at his work and used it as a springboard for our own art in a variety of ways.
Intricate, symmetrical sketches:
Simply focusing on the colour green, seen all around us in nature:
We tried two different printing techniques.
1. Press Printing - where you draw then gouge out your lines on a polystyrene tile, before applying sticky printing paint and pressing down. Everything goes the colour of your paint except what you have drawn.
2. Relief Printing - with this kind of printing you build up your picture (we used string, which we stuck down on a cardboard base before applying paint to the string (quickly before it dries), then printing our image.
Maria Merian
Some of Year 2 looked at the explorer, scientist and ARTIST Maria Merian a few years ago.
She is particularly famous for her studies of butterflies and their life cycles.
So after a quick look at the amazing Monarch butterfly, we set to work.
It meant that we had to paint our butterfly in different sections with black paint - using quick,light brushstrokes. Then fold our paper to get the symmetrical mirror image on the other side.
We then used oil pastels, blending them together to colour our butterfly....remembering symmetry!
David Hockney
David Hockney is a famous Yorkshire artist, who often paints the landscapes around him.
If you enjoyed looking at perspective a few weeks ago, you might like to try a larger, landscape scene.
Here are some of Hockney's Yorkshire landscapes. He has used paint for some, watercolours for others and even used an art app on his iPad for some of his recent ones - can you tell which are which?
During lockdown David Hockney has been in Normandy, France, continuing to do some art everyday on his iPad.
Click here to see some of his recent work:
Georgia O'Keefe
Georgia O'Keefe was born in 1887 and was an American artist who painted nature. She is best know for her large scale paintings of flowers (as well as her desert landscapes). She simplified the shapes, often just enlarging and drawing part of the flower.
She just wanted to 'fill the space in a beautiful way'.
Here are some examples of children's art work inspired by Georgia O'Keefe:
Whichever subject you choose (natural landscape, close up, detailed plant, trees, birds, animals...the list is endless) and whichever medium you decide to use (pencil sketch, colouring pencils, collage, pastels, printing, paint, mixed media, photography......) please send a photo of your finished art work
by Friday 22nd May
GOOD LUCK
and enjoy getting
BACK TO NATURE!
PS: Rose has already been busy - can you see which artists above might have inspired her creations?
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