Showing posts with label What's Next. Show all posts
Showing posts with label What's Next. Show all posts

Saturday, 19 May 2012

What's Next?


Year 5 have been enjoying our experiments with perspective drawing. This week some of  us commenced an indoor perspective sketch based on this art gallery idea from the Kids Artists blog. 
We don't have any of our own pictures ready yet, but we hope to show you some soon. If you haven't tried this yet, you can follow the link above to the instructions and try it yourself. We looked at other examples of indoor perspective drawings too. You can find some more at http://www.childs.mccsc.edu/art2000/art1p3.htm and http://www.art-rageous.net/Perspective.html . If you are finding it a bit tricky, you could try printing this worksheet to help.

You could also create an aquarium scene like this one from Once Upon an Artroom. Notice how the people are silhouettes?


One-point perspective adds depth to shapes and letters. Even little people can do it, as we can see here. There are lots more "Shooting Shapes" on the Artsonia website. You could try some shapes or letters yourself.

5B has already looked at a few examples of Op Art (optical illusion art). For something a bit more challenging, you could try a one point perspective design with your name, combined with an Op Art pattern like this one from Kids Artists.
Challenge yourself! Have fun! Hope we can publish some of your work soon!





Friday, 13 April 2012

What's Next?


As we add to our blog, we'll include "What's Next"? posts to kick start your inspiration, imagination and creativity and to help you reflect on your own work or the work of other artists, or as signposts to finding out and using further information. "What's Next?" doesn't mean what's going to happen in next week's Creative Arts sessions (although sometimes it might give hints). When you see the "What's Next?"sign it should encourage you to take what you've learned and run further with it. You can choose your own path. Go on, challenge yourself. Take a risk!

For example, what else can you do with the work inspired by Vermeer and the Girl with the Pearl Earring.
You could:-
Make a collage of another famous portrait such as the Mona Lisa, or make a self-portrait or a portrait of a family member or friend or pet. (you can see some Mona Lisa examples here and you can search for line drawings of the painting to get you started)

Experiment with drawing or painting portraits or self-portraits in different styles

Add a modern twist to an old portrait like this Modern Mona Lisa from this site (scroll down) 

Try this Vermeer activity (scroll down, it's below the biography details)

If writing is your thing you could:-

Write and illustrate a biography of Vermeer (we can publish it on this blog) 

Write a procedure for one of the activities we've done at school or one that you've tried at home (again, would be great to have those published here

Write a poem (a word picture) about The Girl with the Pearl Earring.



Do you have any other ideas to share? Please post them in the comments.