HIGHLIGHTS Year 1 Art Lessons Year 1 really enjoyed using the art room this year. We loved learning about Claude Monet and took the time to appreciate some of his famous works, particularly his ‘Poppy Field’ painting. We mixed paints to create a background of our own paintings in his style. We then added in detail to our Monet inspired paintings. We looked at the horizon line and talked about ‘perspective’. The children loved learning how to mix paints to make different shades of green. We finished these by adding finer detail using oil pastels. We were so impressed with the children’s detailed and thoughtful work! Year 1 were inspired by ‘The Dot’ by Peter H. Reynolds. We used bright water colour paints to create pictures all originating from a dot. We were so inspired by our dot creations that we looked at Kandinsky’s work, ‘Squares with Concentric Circles’. We created our own collaged version using a variety of textured papers, magazines and colours.
Remembrance Day To mark Remembrance, Year 1 used tea bags to dye some maps and spent time using pencils to create careful sketches of a soldier. The children worked hard to observe the soldier and draw what they could see. We then used tissue paper, oil pastels, felt-tips and coloured pencils to create poppies which we placed around the map and soldier. It was a nice way to help us learn about what Remembrance is and why we remember all of the people who sacrificed so much.
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