Y4B Explore hues, shades and tones 🎨
Our lesson focus was to experiment with different effects and textures including blocking in colour, washes and thickened paint, creating textural effects. We used two different types of brushes and […]
Category Archives: Art and Design
Sending love
Breakfast club have been getting into the Valentines spirit by making heart collages to give to their chosen loved one.
Art at HJS 🎨🖌️🖼️
What a wonderful privilege it is to go and explore the art learning that is happening at our school. As art leader, I loved hearing how well our children can […]
Exploring colour using a range of paints in y3
We have noticed that our focus artists this term use bright colours in many of their designs. We have explored pencil and ink so far this term, but today we […]
Art in Y3J
Today in art we looked at expressing how we felt about artwork and also analysing the work we saw. We focused on two local artiste and had a great discussion […]
Art in Y4
This term children are focussing on improving their painting skills, we started by comparing art linked to our topic, One World Divided? Children looked at imagery from artists around the […]
Artist study in 3SE
As we kicked off our new topic ‘where I belong’ in year 3 today, we looked at our new focus artists for this term. Keeping a local theme, we will […]
Still taking the time to reflect in Y5 🖼️
It might be the last day, but Y5 are still taking the time to reflect on their excellent art projects this term. We have used textiles to create some phenomenal […]
Exploring textile techniques in Y4G
Today in Y4G children had a chance to experiment with different textile techniques, we had fun dyeing material with natural resources the children collected, weaving, sewing and painting on fabric. […]
Y4B remembrance wreath 🕊
Y4B class contribution to our remembrance assembly in school
Cave Art in Y4G
Today children used pastel skills that they had learnt in a previous lesson and applied them to recreate some Cave art from the Stone Age!
Y5 explore watercolour techniques 🎨
Today, Y5 experimented with water colours looking at different techniques. We are going to use these skills when we create our abstract images based on the style of Peter Thorpe.
Creating texture in Y3F
This week we have started to create texture in our sketchbooks inspired by the work of William Morris.
Pastel art and history in Y4B 👩🏽🎨🎨
While learning about the Lascaux Caves in France, We have used pastels for creating some of our own images in the style of the Lascaux Caves.
Sketchbook Skills in Y4G
Today in Y4G children practiced their pastel skills by creating tints and shades. Afterwards, they had a chance to put their skills to the test by recreating a small section […]
Y6S Explore colour, texture and pattern
This week we have been exploring a variety of different materials, focusing on colour and texture. Using blue thread we trialled different stitches to see which one we preferred and […]
Robin Hood’s Bay Year 6
Some of Year 6 spent the day at Robin Hood’s Bay today. We had a lovely day in the sunshine exploring the rock pools, identifying crabs and small fish, lunch […]
Y3SE William Morris mood board
As part of our artist study for this term, we explored William Morris’ vast collection of artwork and prints. We used exploration to identify ‘moods’ and ‘themes’ within his art […]
Y5- Peter Thorpe Artist Study 🚀
Today Y5 explored our artist for this term- Mr Peter Thorpe. We completed an artist study before exploring some of the shapes he uses in his abstract paintings.