Adventures In Art

Welcome to the FINAL Art Club Challenge!

Before we look at it in more detail here is the link to last week's To Infinity And Beyond exhibition if you haven't already seen it:

https://artatmg.blogspot.com/2020/08/to-infinity-and-beyond-exhibition.html

So 20 weeks, 20 challenges. We started by Looking Through The Window and ended up going to Infinity And Beyond. Every challenge has been filled with some amazing, memorable pieces of art.

This week we're inspired by The Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition to round off all our challenges, so here it is...

Challenge 20 - The Summer Exhibition

This week there is NO THEME!

You can create anything you want, however you want, using any materials, technique or style you like.

This might mean you do a totally new piece of art for our final exhibition or you may look back on pieces you have done in previous challenges and choose your favourite to submit.

If you are doing a new piece of art, think back to all the different types of art we have looked at and that you have created:

Do you have a favourite artist that you'd like to do something in their style?
Have you found a particular material, technique or style that you liked using and would like to use again?
Is there a theme we haven't covered that you are really interested in and would like to do a piece of art around that?
Is there a theme we have done that you'd like to revisit and do differently?
Are you going to do something realistic or abstract? A portrait or a landscape? What will your subject be?
Are you going to use a particular material or do a mixed media piece?
Is it going to be 2D or 3D?

Lots of things to think about - this is our final challenge and our ultimate Summer Exhibition in the style of the Royal Academy, so give it some thought and aim for this to be your best piece of art yet!

Remember: if you have already submitted a piece of art in another challenge that you are particularly proud of, you can just tell us and we'll put that into the exhibition instead of a new piece.

Now here's a little more information about the actual Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is the world’s oldest open submission exhibition – which means that anyone can enter a piece of artwork about anything, created in anyway, that might be included in the final exhibition. This means there will be art by famous artists alongside art by ANYONE! It’s happened every year since 1769!

It looks like this:

SO MUCH ART!

Alongside the main 'adult artist' exhibition above, there is The Young Artists’ Summer Show. This is a free, open submission exhibition for young people aged 5 - 19 years, taking place both online and on-site at the Royal Academy of Arts to recognise talented young artists.

This year’s judging panel received over 17,700 submissions – and whittled them down to 392 works, ranging from drawing, painting and photography, to video and sculpture. Right now, it’s an online-only exhibition, but a selection of these works will be displayed on-site at the Royal Academy in the autumn.

Here's a video from a previous exhibition (at that point it was open to 7 - 19 year olds, now the age has been lowered to 5):

So this week, for our final challenge we are going to hold our own virtual Summer Exhibition - and remember there is NO theme, you can submit any piece of artwork about anything you want and in any medium you want.

Here are some different examples from the current Young Artists' Summer Show, from a variety of ages.

The Commute - Jack aged 9

Rainbow Self Portrait - Emma aged 7

My Brother Charlie - Alfred aged 11

Goddess - Nyra aged 7

Drawing With Lost Tooth - Joshua aged 5

Evening Stroll - Elliot aged 6

The Colourful Musical Mind - Isla aged 11

Let Me In - Jason aged 8

Our Technicolour World - Jemima aged 10

My Shells - Joseph aged 5

Lady Margaret - Lola aged 7

My Friend Ella - Jian aged 8

Self Portrait - Olga aged 8

My Mum's Shoe Collection - Harry aged 10

Self Portrait - Shayen aged 11

Sparky The Sleeping Sloth - Willow-Rose aged 7

Portrait With Shapes - Anna aged 7

Under The Sea - Shayan aged 7

Urban Fox - Rory aged 7

City Under Lockdown - Raghav aged 9

Blossom Tree - Ruby aged 11

Spring - Joseph aged 8

Lockdown - Grigory aged 10

Midnight Village - Libby aged 9

Robin In Snow - Cressida aged 5

Storm - Connie aged 10

Self Portrait - Tara aged 9

Royal Albert Hall - Willow aged 11

Wonderland - Zixi aged 11

Lady With Blue Hair - Marlie aged 10

Hopefully, some of the above have inspired you to create your own, unique pieces of art for our final challenge.

Next year you might even think of entering The Royal Academy Young Artists' Summer Show yourself - you are all certainly talented enough.

You can find out more details here:

https://youngartists.royalacademy.org.uk/about#dates

However, we've got our very own MG Summer Exhibition first! As ever, please take a photograph of your finished art work and send it by Friday 7th August to:

MGartclub@missiongrove.org.uk

Please submit only one piece of art

each this week.

We are going to ask everyone who has been involved in the Art Club, as well as the MG staff and parents to get creating so it might be a pretty big exhibition with........

LOTS AND LOTS OF AMAZING ART!!

Hello and welcome to this week's penultimate exhibition, where our Art Clubbers put on their space suits and climbed into their rockets, launching themselves into a whole new world of creativity.

Click below to enter this week's galactic gallery. This week's soundtrack is Telstar by The Tornadoes released in 1962 when the world was fascinated by the idea of space travel.

Scroll down to read more about our artists and their supersonic space art.

RuiBo - Magpie

RuiBo launches us into space this week with his bright, bold picture. By using a combination of paint, colouring pencils and black felt pen he really makes everything stand out. What a fantastic start to our exhibition.

Senna - Magpie

Senna has created her very own space monster called Frimpy Froo. She has used colouring pencils for her fabulous cartoon style drawing. It is a very cute space monster so we think it would be quite friendly if you were to meet it!

Rui Xuan - Grouse

RuiXuan has drawn an array of planets floating in his glorious galaxy picture. He has taken great care colouring it.

Can you spot planet Earth and his fantastic fiery comets?

Yaseen - Year 1

As well as working on a collaborative piece of art with his mum and his brother, Yaseen has created two very different space pictures. In his first picture, he has used paint to create his striped purple and blue background. He then drew some fabulous planets and a rocket.

His second picture is a total contrast as he has used warm sunset colours, placing a great alien in the middle. He has also drawn himself jumping out of the rocket before he crashes into the alien.

Rayyan - Year 1

As well as his 3D alien, Rayyan has done a wonderful painting of space, using different shades of blue for the background. He then cut out and stuck an amazing alien, some rockets and a planet onto this. These really stand out as he used bold contrasting colours.

Mohammad - Friend of Rayyan and Yaseen

Mohammad, who has only just turned 5, came round to Yaseen and Rayyan's for a play day so also got involved in this week's challenge. In his first picture, Mohammad used paint and feathers to create an illusion of space. He has placed two cute 3D aliens in front of this.

In his second picture he drew dinosaurs in space with a black rocket taking off in the middle. Can you see the trail from the rocket?

Ms Zahir

Rayyan and Yaseen's mum has created an incredibly effective mixed media picture using collage and different paints. She has used flower petals, feathers and paint to create her sun and set this against an abstract background. She has used a white rose to represent the Milky Way and a yellow flower as a cluster of stars in another galaxy.

Rayyan, Yaseen and their mum

Finally the boys and their mum all worked together on a 3D collaborative piece of work called Mars. They created a Mars sky, one side showing day and the other night, and on the floor random patterns and blotching. The boys added their pictures to the side before they all created aliens made from junk materials. When everything was finished they placed them together in one final 'space-tastic!' scene.

Jhael - Kittiwake

Jhael has really captured the idea of 'Infinity and Beyond' in this amazing piece of artwork. Through her use of colour, blending and shading she draws us right into space. She has really illuminated and made the planets glow by her effective use of white. Wonderful stuff!

Zahara - Waxwing

This week Zahara has taken her Manga style space girl into the depths of the galaxy. Her dark background with all different speckles of colour is wonderful and really makes her planets stand out. She has used really good blending on her comets that make them look as though they are moving across the picture. Her use of silver to outline the planets is an excellent finishing touch.

Klaudia - Kittiwake

Klaudia has managed to get her signature cats into this week's space picture by turning them into planets. Her excellent drawing of a character is actually Star Fire from Teen Titans Go! She has cleverly drawn Star Fire at an angle to give the illusion that she is floating through space.

Kacper - Grouse

This week Kacper has created two abstract paintings of space. His superb swirling brush strokes work really well to give a sense of space and infinity. His first picture combines three colours in a spiral that draws you right into the middle of space.

Shoaib - Nursery

Once again Shoaib is our youngest Art Clubber. He has created two wonderful rocket models, using different shapes, which he has set against a space background. Some of his white paint looks like comets. He has also used his stickers well to enhance his picture. The whole idea really works - 'rocket-tastic!'

Ayla - Buzzard

In Ayla's first picture she has created some happy, surprised, supersonically superb aliens wandering around the galaxy having left the comfort of their spaceship. By outlining her drawings in black, she has given them a really effective cartoon feel.

She has also made a 3D rocket from card. Again drawing some great cartoon aliens looking out of the window as it lifts off. Her final rocket was one that she did for a school project earlier this year.

Euan - Friend of MG

Euan drew and then painted a black hole sucking the Earth into it and shooting comets from it. After he finished painting he looked at a variety of photo filters before deciding which one worked best for his background.

Rose

Rose used the shaving foam marbling technique for the planets in her first picture. She then cut these out and placed them on a background that she had already speckled with white paint. For her second picture Rose used soft pastels to get the effect of night-time with a space ship in the foreground beaming someone up, just like you see in sci-fi movies.

Brian - Rose's husband

Like Peter Thorpe, the artist we looked at this week, Brian has a keen interest in space. To create this clever illusion of an eclipse, he got a piece of black card, cutting a circle out of it, which he then suspended on a piece of clear plastic. He then angled a table lamp to shine down on it so that the light reflected back on the plastic.

Ms Harris

Ms Harris used oil pastels to create her bright abstract picture of a nebula. A nebula is a giant cloud of dust and gas in space. Some of them come from explosions of dying stars. They appear in many shapes and colours. Look at all the colours that Ms Harris has used in hers.

Ms Harding

Ms Harding re-used the collage sun from her 'We Are Family' collaborative piece of art. She stuck this onto a piece of cardboard that she had painted black and splattered with white paint. She then used watercolours to create a variety of planets, some of which she added extra details to using a fine black pen.

Below this are the outcomes of the Harding household monster drawing game!

Meanwhile in school...

Mrs Nichols' Year 3 Group

Last week Year 3 went on a fabulous art adventure in space. Unfortunately they landed back on Earth a little late to be in the exhibition but we thought you would love to see their 'space-tacular' creations.