ART CLUB WEEK 6 WEEK 02/06/2026

One of the teacher's favourite artists from her A-level days today!  Gauguin, she loves his bright vibrant colours.  He is a post-impressionist who left France for Tahiti in the late 1800s.  He painted his tropical landscapes by combining his dreams with reality and used colours that were much brighter and bolder than those found in nature.

The children drew fantastic landscapes on their A3 paper, starting with the foreground bushes, then adding a path in perspective in the mid ground and more bushes, and then trees, palm trees, hills and mountains and sky in the background. They used acrylic paints which are a lot thicker and brighter than normal school paint.  The children used short choppy brushstrokes to emulate Gauguin's style.

Great results below, with block bright colour ALA Gauguin and some real depth in their pictures!

INFANT ART CLUB WEEK 2 29/04/2026

The children created fantastic rockets today!

They drew confident rocket shapes with metallic oil pastels, adding boosters, portholes and stripes.   They painted the background first using a mixture of blue and black, making sure to smooth out any lumps and bumps, so the paint would be dry, and we could add yellow stars at the end of the lesson.  They were given a limited palette of blue, silver and orange to paint their rocket and encouraged to paint each brush stroke separately, taking the brush off after each stroke – to try and move away from the circular motion they all love.  It was suggested they should add more than one layer and to paint up to the edges.   They also added red, orange and yellow take-off flames.  Once painted, they tackled the tricky challenge of outlining in black, which tidies the painting ups and makes them pop off the page.  What talented children who all managed this really well – lots of dipping in the black paint, using the tip of the brush and not pressing too hard all really helped.