Adventures In Art: Blue Monday

Thank you all for your wonderfully BLUE art work - it wasn't just Blue Monday, we had a complete BLUE WEEK. Seeing so much blue really cooled us down in all the heat. As ever our Art Clubbers were a very inventive bunch. We had all shades of blue in paint, collage, oil pastels, chalk, colouring pencils, felt pens and ink.

Doris was so impressed that she even attempted a very blue dab move!

Enjoy all the blueness as you enter our exhibition. Afterwards you can read a little more about our artists and their work below.

Challenge 14 Blue Monday from Art@MG on Vimeo.

Sofia - Nursery

Sofia is our youngest artist this week. She said, 'We need the blue sky. It makes me happy.' This is such a happy picture with a blooming flower, the sun shining and lots of blue sky in the background. Great stuff!

Jhael - Kittiwake

Not only did Jhael create a fantastic piece of blue art work this week, she also got a newly designed tote bag out of it! Jhael has used different shades and tints of blue, making her butterfly and water droplets really stand out and look almost 3D by her subtle use of white to show light reflections.

Kio - Kestrel

Kio has focused on a nocturnal piece of art for his interpretation of the blue theme. By drawing the tree and moon on one side of the picture it draws your eye across the page to this brilliant expanse of midnight blue sky.

Pragas - Waxwing

Pragas is the only Art Clubber who interpreted the theme as an emotion; drawing a crying face with blue tears running into the sea against a blue background. He has created a great central character which is a cross between an emoji and Manga.

Rayyan and Yaseen - Year 1

Rayyan and Yaseen have chosen a lovely, inventive way to brighten up their Uncle's shed. Both pieces of outdoor art are full of blue themed ideas - the sea, waves, a whale, surfing, weather, the solar system and the NHS to name but a few. Rayyan has really understood how to use movement lines effectively, while Yaseen has included himself in his picture dipping his toe into the water. A career for them both in outdoor art installations awaits!

Klaudia - Kittiwake

Klaudia has managed to get a delightful cat into her blue themed art work. Her use of blue lines and patterns is very much like Andy Warhol's cats. These lines draw your attention from the pinky red nose in the middle all across the page.

Kacper - Grouse

Kacper has drawn some blue viruses with a superhero right in the middle to defeat them. He has used felt pens to draw and colour his fabulous cartoon style characters. His picture is mainly blue but the red of the superhero's face draws your eye straight to it.

Samina - Merlin

Samina has created a wonderful nocturnal wintery blue picture. She has drawn the tree to the left handside so that it frames the whole scene. She has made the tree bend over in the wind as well as the grass seem to move, causing the birds to take flight.

Ruibo - Magpie

In his first piece of art, Ruibo has used both warm and cool colours as well as having his background lines going in different directions, which is extremely effective.
In his second piece, his use of black and white patterns behind his Willow Pattern inspired vase really make the amazing blue delicate patterns on it stand out.

RuiXuan - Grouse

RuiXuan has used cool colours, including blue, in his pattern picture. Through his careful colouring in the same direction as his outlines, he draws your eye towards the edges of the picture. A brilliantly, bold picture!

Aiden - Kingfisher

Aiden has created a very topical interpretation of the theme. After completing a blue background, he has chosen images from the past few weeks with some elements of blue in them such as: the NHS, Covid19, the demonstrations, PPE and bluer less polluted skies. Then right in the middle we have Sergei the Meerkat with his blue eye wondering what on earth is happening. The whole effect is wonderful.

Clarabelle - Magpie

Clarabelle's art this week reminded us of Matisse's cut out pictures. He used to call it 'painting with scissors' when he cut out shapes to represent objects. This has given Clarabelle's whole scene an amazing abstract feel.
Can you spot the birds that have flown off her picture from last week and into this one?

Max - Waxwing

Max has created a wonderful wave picture full of movement, very much in the style of the Japanese artist Hokusai. It really looks as though Max's wave is moving and his art is full of different textures as he has used a variety of techniques to shade the water.

Senna - Magpie

Senna has created a brilliantly blue interpretation of this week's theme. Having painted a blue stripey background in a light wash, she proceeded to cover it with some extremely cute bunnies. She finally added extra blue paws and patterns using a blue biro pen.

Ayla - Buzzard

Ayla has been busy getting blue this week. For her first piece she used a variety of materials to build up a fantastic blue rainbow collage (paper, tissue paper, plastic bags and lollipop sticks). She then drew her own version of the Willow Pattern plate using a blue pen. Finally she made a hanging heart ornament in cool colours using melting beads. It is great to see her tackling the blue theme in so many different ways.

Rose

Rose has immersed herslf in blue this week. Her first two pictures were in the introduction to this week's task on the blog showing that you can create a wonderful landscape just in one colour, in this case blue.
You may have also seen her string and ink abstract picture in the introduction - what do you think it looks like?
Finally she painted a blue square, added a little white and painted the next square and so on - the blue got lighter and lighter (we call this a tint). She then cut them up into triangles outlining two of the sides with a black marker pen. She then had a lot of fun arranging them into all sorts of amazing abstract pictures.

Ms Harris

This week, Ms Harris got to grips with blue! Her first picture which is in an impressionistic 'dotty' style is a still life of some different sized bottles. She achieved her interesting background effects by painting on bubble wrap and printing it on to her paper. She then looked for as many blue objects as she could around the house, placing them in a composition she liked before taking a photograph of them with a cool blue filter.

Ms Harding

Ms Harding loves Picasso so she tried to do a portrait of him using water colours in a cubist style with different shades of blue. She outlined her geometric shapes with a colouring pencil at the end. Underneath are two acryllic paintings on canvas that she did in her very own blue (and doorway it would appear!) period.

Meanwhile in school things also went rather blue.......

Miss Zanon's Group
The children in Miss Zanon's group had a lot of fun creating a variety of blue art works from their own version of a Willow Pattern plate to some sea scenes, monsters, abstract patterns and winter birch trees.

Miss Zanon

David - Moorhen

Katia - Kinglet

Hussein - Moorhen

Louis - Moorhen

Madia - Kinglet

Miss Isabella

Coach George's Group
This Year 6 group focused on the Willow Pattern plate creating their own delicate versions of this iconic image.

Nadia - Swallow

Nyima - Swallow

Mario - Swallow

Mariyah - Swallow

Mr Halstead's Group
This group used oil pastels, soft pastels and colouring pencils to create their own blue inspired pieces of art. They took us from the beach to the waterfall via a cooling ice lolly, a blue jaguar and into mid winter before heading into space!

Ameera - Waxwing (The Seashore)

Aleenah - Wagtail (Owl In The Snow)

Celine - Kingfisher (Waterfall)

Ayaan - Kittiwake (The Eye)

Ibrahim - Kittiwake (Blue Jaguar)

Chlorie - Waxwing (City At Night)

Laksha - Kestrel (Out Of This World)

Saif - Kestrel (Cool)

Nina - Woodpecker (The World In An Eye)

Mr Murray's Group
This week Mr Murray's Year 6 group of Kenneth, Muneeb, Nisa, Sercan, Mohammed D, Abdur, Isabelle, Britannia, Katie, Barack, Elie and Elena got to grips with all different shades of blue to create these paintings below.