This half term Robins have been studying Pablo Picasso.
Today they discussed all about cubism and had a go at creating their own cubism inspired portraits.
Excellent concentration! Well done to those of you who took care in using the oil pastels.
Notice the shapes and strong colours.
Today Robins researched all about Pablo Picasso and discussed some of his artwork.
This morning, for art week we were doing an artist’s study about Zariah Forman. We read information about her, looked at her art work and watched a video of how she creates it. We also started sketching images that made us think of her.
This afternoon, Robins were illustrators. We were painting and drawing images inspired by our class reader The Promise. We looked at the illustrations in the book, the colours used, the techniques and style. We noticed how they changed throughout the book, from grey, black and brown to green and much more vibrant.
We planned what we wanted to draw this morning and then this afternoon, used sketching pencils, water colours and wax crayons. We will use the images as the background for our city poems.
On Wednesday Robins showed concentration and creativity whilst having a go at taking their own photo’s. They demonstrated they were able to use grid lines to plan their composition, focus on a subject and adjust the brightness when needed.
Let’s take a look at some of their pieces! Don’t they look good?
Robins explored the use of Pixlr (an online photo editor )
They discovered how they could not only apply pre-set filters but also change individual settings, thus becoming advanced photo editors.
It was great fun experimenting how to adjust settings such as Vibrance, Saturation, Hue, Brightness, Contrast and temperature. This required a lot of active listening, concentration, perseverance and creative thinking.
Having mastered the controls; Robins had to edit their photo to match the style of
Joe Cornish (Colour)
Ansel Adams (Black and White)
Extension: At home, access pixlr by clicking here!
In Art, Robins have been learning about Joe Cornish, a landscape photographer and Ansel Adams.
Today, they learnt about how to use an iPad to capture images. Mr Lo mentioned about focus, brightness and how to use the zoom. He also showed how to ensure the device is held properly to avoid shake.
After taking the photos, Robins learnt how to transfer the photos onto our school shared area wirelessly.
Next week, we look forward to editing them in the style of Joe Cornish or Ansel Adams.
Eason enjoyed the lesson on shading.
At home he decided to put his new skills into action and luck at the result!
Continuing with pencil drawing skill development. This week, Robins had a ago at different shading techniques.
Finally, we also studied the artist. Joe Cornish. We look forward to taking our own digital art next week!
In Art this afternoon, the Robins were exploring sketching pencils. We looked at the different names of the pencils and what they mean and what we would use them for. Then we experimented with the different pencils in our sketch books. We compared the H and B pencils and what was different about them.
As an extension activity Mr Lo showed Robins how to write volcano (known as a fire mountain) in Chinese. Volcano in Chinese is made up of the Chinese characters for Fire and Mountain. Can you see how the Chinese characters are pictograms?
Notice how Robins, shaded in various parts of the flames using different sketching pencils to see how the difference in tones between pencils.
Robins enjoyed creating their final pieces. Look at some of them in the video below.