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Year 3 have been studying the paintings of Frida Kahlo. As well as being famous for her self portraits, she was known for painting still lifes with fruit and plants.

Year 3 practised mixing colours and explored primary, secondary and tertiary colours. We also explored ideas of texture and finding areas of light and dark. We made observations of fruit and layered colours to create depth.

As a background, year three collected and printed leaved to give a bright pattern and reflect the style of Frida Kahlo.

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This half term, year 4 have been practising their clay skills. We began by making clay tiles inspired by Grayson Perry, each featuring initials and lots of bright colours and texture.

After learning about Sutton Hoo, year 4 began to design and make their own Anglo-Saxon jewellery to bring together the skills they have learnt.

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In year 5 we have been learning key skills based around perspective in landscapes. Thinking about scale, palette, horizon, vanishing point and more we had a go at planning out our own landscapes before moving on to study the work of Georgia O'Keeffe.

O'Keeffe was famous for her painting skills with her grand landscapes and zoomed in flowers. We chose 3 of her landscapes to analyse and reproduce. We used the grid technique to reproduce these paintings, a skill we can take forward and use with other artists' work as well as photos we take ourselves.

Year 5 practised mixing and blending colours using oil pastels and developed their skills in layering colours.

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In year 6 we began the year studying the work of Alexander Calder, an artist and sculptor who specialises in stylised wire portraits.

After having a look at some of his different pieces, we began by experimenting with the wire. As a class, we began by  practising basic shapes, joins and curves using wire. Soon  we were able to make wire flowers as a group.
Next we had a go at doing some continuous line drawing, where we couldn't take our pencils off the page, we even had a go at tracing over our own pictures using this technique. Some children overlaid these images and added colour to create an abstract, cubist, image.
Finally, we were able to bring together our knowledge and construct continuous line sculptures from wire.

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We used torches to photograph our sculptures and their shadows.

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This spring, year 5 have been studying the human form in art. Comparing two statues - The Discus Thrower by Myron and The Pointing Man by Giacometti - we looked at the influence of different periods on art styles as well as the way artists used pose, texture, colour and scale to create an impression.
Next we started to think about proportion and what that can mean when looking at the human body. We learnt quick techniques for planning out a sketch and measuring what you can see. We even tried our hands at a bit of life drawing.
We took out the artists' mannequins to do some more detailed sketches and start planning our poses.

We explored a range of sculptural materials including tin foil, wire, modroc, and clay before beginning to structure our own sculptures. The children selected their materials and photographed the poses they wanted to construct.

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Year 6 have been studying Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo, a book that references the artist Hokusai. After studying some of Hokusai's work, year 6 began exploring the descriptive language used to describe areas of the island in the book. They used watercolour painting techniques to illustrate passages showing the island, the cave, the jungle and the beach.

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While learning about the Romans, year 3 went on a trip to the Museum of London. There, they saw a range of mosaics that would've been used to decorate Roman villas, baths and squares. Inspired by these, they designed their own sea creature mosaics. To begin with they researched different sea creatures and made mood boards to illustrate their ideas. Next they sketched out elements of the images they'd gathered, exploring colour, shape and pattern. After practising some collage techniques, they were ready to put their skills together to make their mosaics.

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Year 4 have been studying the work of Waruguru Waithira, exploring the meaning of her work as well as focusing on colour mixing techniques. Some of the pupils chose to focus on the traditional patterns prevalent in her work while others wanted to highlight her use of a limited palette by creating an abstract painting with a colour theme. Some pupils chose to explore the themes of storytelling, music and culture that are at the forefront of her work, painting an abstract pattern to a piece of music or a representation of their journey to school.

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These colourful prints by year three are inspired by their observational sketches of Forty Hall. Earlier this half term they went on a trip to take photographs and draw the historic building. They simplified their line drawings and transferred them onto polystyrene printing blocks to make these compositions.

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For the Summer term, year 4 have been studying Chiaroscuro, the observation of light and dark, commonly used in renaissance paintings. As well as expanding on their shading techniques they experimented with using chalk and charcoal to build up a contrast between shadows and highlights. Pupils were creating observations of a still life with a range of objects they could choose to focus on. Some children even brought in their own objects to draw, with consideration for shape and light catching properties.

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Year 5 have been studying the impressionist movement and artists such as Claude Monet. His famous painting of the view of the Houses of Parliament across the Thames inspired their own paintings of London Landscapes. Each class visited the River on a school trip and took photographs to inspire their own impressions of landmarks. They used impressionist techniques and colours to reflect what they have been learning about.