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Art Year 3

The Year 3 children have their own art studio in their extended learning space.

We use our sketchbooks to practice, plan, review and revisit our artwork and skills. 

 

 

 

 

 Self Portraits:

 

Sketching - observational drawings 

   

Process

We began by looking at photos of fruit cut in half. We talked about all the details we could see in both the colour and texture. 

We sketched the fruit using sketching pencils, graphite and charcoal to re-create the colours, patterns and textures.

 

We made a viewfinder and used it to choose an area of the fruit to focus on detail.

 

 

We practiced colour matching using oil pastels, before adding colour to our A4 sketches. 

 

 We are proud of our artwork, inspired by Dennis Wojtkiewicz.

 

 Ceramics - clay tiles

We rolled out a slab of clay, we aimed for a 1cm thickness. We used clay tools to cut a tile shape and to press in or scratch the surface to experiment with mark making. We would smooth the clay over and start again. Then we used looked closely at the area in the viewfinder and impressed lines and patterns on the tile. We added more clay to create raised areas.

We decorated the tile with acrylic paint (encouraging colour mixing).  Then we used scratch tools to add pattern and detail.