Tactile learners learn best through movement. In Art & crafts our home-schooled children have been looking at images of buildings through feel and texture. They have got to experience and remember patterns using their fingers creating a texture collage. This activity helped those experiential artists because it adds a tactile aspect to the activity. Using a wide range of materials with a variety of textures the children got to cut out random geometrical shapes to create their texture Read more [...]

Our home-schooled children have been looking at the foundations of a picture in order to create a paper collage. They worked on imitating the texture of the building and created shadows with the black highlights along with the white. Paper collage is a technique of an art production where the artwork is created using an assemblage of different forms and shapes using paper. These forms and shapes eventually create a whole image. The children focused on looking at texture and the feel touch Read more [...]

Following on from planning and design the children have been working on creating their bags demonstrating their sewing skills using a wide range of materials. Some of the students opted to use felt material to create their bags. Felt is a durable, moisture-repellent and heat-insulating material and can be made of both, natural or synthetic fibres. It is easy to work with and can be used on both sides because both surfaces are the same. The children went on to draw and cut out the the Read more [...]

Some of our home-schooled children are in the first stage of designing their very own printed handbag. They have started planning whereby the children will eventually go through the design process to create a product In the next few weeks they will move on to demonstrate their sewing skills. Children will learn how to make a paper template of the bag and how to sew a running stitch, backstitch, whip stitch and blanket stitch. Finally, when they have made their handbags children will learn Read more [...]

Children have been looking at Ian Murphy’s drawings and focusing and developing upon mark-making over the last half-term. Mark making is still a pure form of the artist unique self-expression of the communicative process. The children created representational artworks using mark making. This allowed them to explore the different textures and shading techniques within their drawings. The children focused on how to use the pencil to create a wide range of expressive and engaging lines Read more [...]

Ian Murphy is a UK based Fine artist of 30 years, known for his passion for journeys, inspiring his artworks. The rugged and eroded landscape, both natural and the constructed, feature strongly in his visual stimulus, as he seeks to investigate the environments that fracture and decay to get the best ideas for his mixed media canvases in the studio. Our home-schooled children have been looking at his drawings and have produced some excellent thumbnail sketches inspired by his artwork. These Read more [...]

Our home-schooled children have taken each of their individual paintings and have added colour to their artwork. Using watercolours, they have been able create a painting whereby light reflects off the white of the paper and bounces up through the colours, giving it a luminosity. Also, by using a range of brushes the children were able to experiment with different sizes to work out what would be ideal for those little details within their artwork. Watercolour techniques such as working from Read more [...]

Our home-schooled children have been learning all about the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh. Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch artist. He painted portraits and landscapes and used watercolours and oil paints. He is famous for using bright colours and bold brushstrokes in his work. He painted in a style called Post-Impressionism. The children have been focusing on two of his famous paintings, Sunflowers (1888) and Starry Night (1889) and producing some excellent sketching artwork using a variety Read more [...]

Children have been developing observational skills by creating tonal grid drawing during Art lessons. The grid method involves drawing a grid over your reference picture/photo, and then drawing a grid of equal ratio on your work surface/paper. Drawing complex objects purely by eye, without any visual aid like construction lines, or a physical aid like a proportional divider can be difficult. However, using the grid method can help with drawing objects or pictures which require accuracy.   Read more [...]

Our home-schooled children have focusing on drawing skills, looking carefully at the work of European artist Anselm Kiefer. Using the Photo pack of images and a PowerPoint to scaffold the discussion of Anselm Kiefer's work they have presented some great artwork of crumbling buildings. The children looked at facts about Anselm Kiefer’s life and work and their artwork focused on  features of a building, including windows and doors. Over the term the children will be learning about artists, Read more [...]