Year 4 Robins looked at landscapes again this afternoon.

Lexi reminded the class what landscape meant: “It is a drawing of outside and what we can see.”
Evie added “It is the land outside.”

They looked at some examples and discussed it was how people could see what other places looked like before photographs were invented.

Year 4 looked at a number of different examples where it was easy to see what time of year it was.
Bright colours captured a summer, sunny day. Dark colours and a black sky showed a stormy landscape.

The children used some great adjectives to describe some of the landscapes:
• bright
• realistic
• colourful

The class then recapped the “vanishing point”.

Demi said “It is when something is far away and you can’t see it anymore.”

After a quick demonstration the children began to sketch out their landscapes…these will be worked on again later this week.

Today we learnt about the famous artist Picasso.

He created some amazing paintings in the style named cubism. He used unusual shapes and blocks of colour.

Year 4 rolled a dice to help choose unusual facial features and create a picasso like face. They then coloured them in, in his style.

We had some great results! Have a look.

Today in Art, Robins made some fantastic Greek pillars that they designed out of clay.

Hopefully we can put all our pillars together to create our own Greek temple!

This week we are learning about Greek pots in art.

In this lesson we created a printing block using one of the Greek patterns. We then used printing ink to print our pattern across the paper.

Today, Robins looked at a picture by Gustav Klimt called “The Tree of Life”.

They learnt the tree of life represents wisdom, protection, strength, and beauty. It reaches up into the sky and down into the earth. It links Heaven, Earth, and the Underworld.The swirled branches make people want to keep looking at the painting to explore and find more.

Robins then focused on spirals as their theme and Mrs Parry showed the children how to quill. The children created their own designs and pictures. There was real perseverance this afternoon in Year 4!

This half term, Robins are practising their drawing skills with pencils. They have experimented with different pencils (HB to 6B) and shaded by using cross hatching, hatching, random hatching, stippling, ink wash and contour hatching techniques.

This week Robins watched films of artists drawing fruit and shapes with shadows and then had a go themselves.

Abdulbari, Millie, Cara and Jake were particularly successful and after persevering and concentrating, they all felt really proud of their art work. Well done!

Robins completed their final lesson on printing today, designing a complete mosaic picture.

The children realised their had used their concentration, perseverance and creativity learning behaviours!

Robins looked at examples of Roman mosaics and experimented making borders using the medium of printing.

Here are our designs for far!

Robins finished off their landscape watercolour painting this afternoon. They have been comparing the work of two landscape artists and today, painted an abstract picture in the style of David Hockney. Robins looked at a colour wheel to find out about contrasting colous. Here are some examples of his work and the class interpretations, painting in his style: