Art

Welcome Links to explore

September is an incredibly exciting time for the Art teachers at KGS. We are passionate about teaching our students how to draw and paint but not only that, we find it thrilling to learn so much from the new and creative ideas that you will bring to your new school too. Here are some websites you might like to explore and presentations, with information and activities, which will help to keep you thinking creatively before joining us. We can’t wait to get started. Explore this Google arts page and find famous paintings dominated by particular colours. Perhaps you could make a picture to fit in with one of the groupings or copy your favourite.

https://artsandculture.google.com/ color?col=YELLOW&hl=en

Albrecht Durer was brilliant at painting realistic people and animals. Take a close look at his painting of a hare. Have you got a pet to draw?

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https://artsandculture.google.com/story/ uQUh0QSuBi_dgw?hl=en

Make sure that you have 2B and 4B drawing pencils at home to help with Explore the Tate Gallery’s children’s Work well and be happywebsite of games, activities and quizzes. Why not do the ‘Draw a Sound Creature’ homework tasks and, if you get around to it, why not bring along your artwork from one of the activities listed here? activity and bring your results to show us in September?

https://www.tate.org.uk/kids

If learning about art is your thing, then here is a link to some free art history books:

https://www.artystories.org/

Art task 1

Create an observational study of selected kitchen equipment. Arrange some cutlery or kitchen utensils and draw them from life using pencil. Use the images on this page to inspire you.

Challenge: Create an observational study in colour, use paint or pencil crayons. Capture the whole arrangement or a section of it.

Task: Create a range of line drawings of kitchen equipment and overlap the drawings to create an interesting composition.

Work well and be happy

Art task 2

Using a variety of different papers, create a collage of different items you may find in the kitchen. Take inspiration from the imagery on this page; use old book pages, newspaper, takeaway menus, coloured papers etc.

Photography task 1

Create a colour wheel using food and objects you find in the kitchen. Put your items together and photograph them.

Taking inspiration from the food photography opposite, take one food item and photograph it as it is being eaten or cut. Then collate the images to create a composition similar to those on this page. Remember the first photograph should be of the item as a whole.

Photograph a range of kitchen utensils in different compositions; create patterns, create an arrangement, order them in size or colour.

Photography task 2

Photography task 3