Into The Wild - The Exhibition

Thank you all for getting involved in this week's Into The Wild challenge. We have had an artistic safari leading us from the jungle to the plains to the bottom of the ocean and up into the air. Once again our Art Clubbers have demonstrated their skills using a variety of media - felt pens, colouring pencils, pastels, water colours, collage and paint. 

Click below to enter this week's exhibition. Then read on down the page to find the names of our artists and a little more information about their work.

   

Pip - Moorhen

Pip starts our exhibition this week, giving his piece of art the title 'Beyond The Deep'. He has filled the whole page with his wonderful cartoon style drawing of a swimmer on the surface of the water and everything that is going on below him. His use of black felt pen for his seaweed, coral and fish is very effective as it makes them stand out against his deep blue background. 'Krill-iant'!

Senna - Magpie

Senna has drawn a particularly cute little tiger looking at, and prowling towards, us. She has created a busy plant filled background, very much in the style of Rousseau's original tiger picture. The way she has shaded her green background diagonally with the leaves also swirling around give the sense of a storm. 
'Terror'-ific!

RuiBo- Magpie

RuiBo has used two very techniques for each of his pictures. His terrific tiger picture is a pencil sketch carefully shaded in using colouring pencils. His lion picture, on the otherhand, is more cartoon like so he has used a black felt pen to outline it and draw your eye to his open mouth and wild mane - a 'roaring' success!

Klaudia - Kittiwake

Klaudia chose to depict a leopard in her piece of art. She has used abstract patterns on its fur which work particularly well. She has also used a horizon line in the background to give her whole picture a sense of perspective. This leopard has certainly changed his spots - fabulous work!

Jhael - Kittiwake

This week Jhael has not only completed a fabulous composition of a tiger prowling in the foreground, she has also shown us how she built up her picture. She has used a horizon line, perspective and shadow very effectively, also demonstrating some excellent shading and pencil smudging. 'Terror'-ific!

Yaseen - Year 1

Yaseen has created two very different Into The Wild pieces of art this week. His first is a wonderful under water scene bursting with detail. By outlining all of his individual fish, he has really made them stand out. His second piece depicts a storm, just like in Rousseau's Surprised! but this time he has used snakes slithering away instead of a tiger. 'Slither'-ific!

Rayyan - Year 1

Rayyan has also completed two pieces of very different Into The Wild scenes. For his first under water piece he used oil pastels. His scene is full of different sea creatures that the octopus at the bottom seems to have his wonderful eyes on!
As well as this, he has drawn a fabulous anteater with an especially long snout to sniff out ants as his eyesight is so poor and a long tongue to catch them! 'Snout' wrong with that!

Both of the boys sent in pictures of their jungle models that they completed at the start of lockdown and still have. They are looking as good as ever!

Shoaib - Nursery

Shoaib is our youngest Art Clubber this week. In his first picture he has created a fabulous caterpillar and butterfly from pieces of paper. Both of them are heading towards some fruit. We wonder if The Very Hungry Caterpillar was his inspiration! He then created a 3D aquarium, arranging some shells at the bottom as well as printing and sticking fish on to his background. 
Finally he really enjoyed colouring a picture of some fish. 'Sea-riously great work for one so young!

Ayla - Buzzard

This week Ayla has gone underwater and around the world in search of inspiration. Her first 'fintastic' cartoon style drawing of life underwater features tropical fish, a crab, a jelly fish and some coral - all carefully coloured in using felt pen. Meanwhile her second pictures features a wide, colourful range of different animals. She really has been Into The Wild this week!

Yousuf - Kittiwake


This week Yousuf has captured a gorilla in a standing pose, staring straight at us. He has drawn a great body shape for his gorilla, really showing his clenched fists. 

Ms Harding

This week Ms Harding used paint for her abstract lion face. Having drawn the basic shape of the face, the eye, the nose and the mouth, she got her paint brush and did some sweeping brush strokes in different colours for the mane.

Rose

Rose really likes nature, often going to Walthamstow Wetlands to see all the creatures that live there. This includes dragonflies. Rose has delicately sketched a dragonfly attached to a reed. 
How has she shown the water moving?

Ms Harris

This week Ms Harris decided to draw an African elephant (They have larger ears while Asian elephants have smaller ears). She used oil pastels to colour in her elephant before blending a mixture of warm colours for her background. By outlining her elephant she really made it stand out.

Meanwhile in school...

Miss Beath's Group
This week members of Swan class on South Site were busy creating their own fabulously varied Into The Wild artworks, using both textured collage and water colours.

Tiago

Larissa

Yasmina

Sana

Miss Carter's Group
Meanwhile on North Site, Waxwing class were busy getting wonderfully creative with paints. They each painted a background, before drawing and painting their creature. Finally they cut these out and stuck them on to their background.

Sharna

'Giraffe'

Ameera

'Gorilla'

Doruk

'Crocodile'

Maryam

'Flamingo'

Poppy

'Leopard Print Gheko'

Luca

'Peacock'

Thank you all as ever for getting involved, especially as we know some of you are now back at school so this really has become an 'after school' activity for you.

We'll be back next week with Challenge 17..... It's not such a colourful one!

Hmmmmmmmmmm......