Week Beginning 22nd June

 This week we are going to look at the work of a Northern Irish artist called Denise Ferran. She loves doing paintings of the seaside. You can do a seaside painting too!

• Have a look at the pictures below, then follow the tips on how to make your own seascape picture. 
• There are ideas for other seaside-themed pictures in the PDFs below.

What you will need

• Blue, yellow and white paints. (Chalks, pastels or crayons would work as well.)
• Small sponge or scrunched up J-cloth.
• Paint brushes.
• Cotton buds.
• Sheet of plain paper or recycled card to paint on. (Boxes are good for a 3D effect.)

Ideas

• Set your paper out with the long side at the top and bottom. This is called 'landscape' layout, but today we are making a 'seascape'!
• Use a pencil to draw 2 lines across your page to divide  your picture in 3. (The top is for the sky. The middle is for the sea. The bottom section is for the sand. (Look at Denise Ferann's  pictures. Sometimes she leaves lots of room for the sky but other times it is just a thin space left at the top. You decide how much space you want for each section!)
• Use dark blue paint for the middle (sea) section and paint across the page.
• Add some white paint to your blue paint and use this colour for the sky section at the top.
• Use some yellow paint for the sand at the bottom of your picture.
• Add waves using a cotton bud dipped in white paint. A ruler edge dipped in white paint is also effective to get straight lines.
• You can add swirly clouds using  a sponge dipped lightly in white paint or stick on some cotton wool  when your painting is dry.
• If you like, you can add details to your picture like boats, people, sea gulls and shells. But it is also very effective without!

Have fun making your seascape!

Week Beginning 15th June

This week we are making pictures of rockets! 

You can draw, paint or make a collage.

Have a look at the photos below to get some ideas!

Week Beginning 8th June

In our art work last week, we used lots of circle shapes. This week we are using triangles.

Have a look at the pictures below. They were painted by a French artist called Raoul Dufy. He loved painting pictures of boats and used lots of bright colours and simple shapes. 

Make your own bright and colourful pictures of boats!

There are some ideas to help you below.

Some ideas

• Use 2 shades of blue to paint the sea and the sky on a big piece of paper. (You could use blue foil or left-over blue wrapping paper for your background instead.)
• Draw the hull (bottom part) of each boat and colour in, using bright felt tip pens or paints.
• Use a dark felt-tip to draw a line round the edge of your boats.
• Cut out and stick on triangle shapes for sails. (You could use paper or scrap materials.)
• Add a mast using a straw or a thin piece of fabric.
• Use some white paint on a sponge, or stick on some cotton wool, for clouds and waves.
• ​​​​​​​Display your beautiful artwork!

Week Beginning 1st June

This week we are getting some ideas for our art work  from 2 artists;

Robert and Sonia Delaunay.

The Delaunays loved using lots of circles in their paintings and used very bright colours.

• Look at the paintings in the photos below. Take note of the shapes and the bright colours that are used. 
• Watch the video to get some ideas on how to make a Circle picture.
• Have fun making your own artwork with a variety of round shapes.
• Display your beautiful artwork!

Week Beginning 25th May

This week we are going to make a traffic jam!

Use the ideas on these pages to draw lots of different road vehicles.

• Have you noticed that all the traffic at the top is going one way and the traffic at the bottom is going in the other?
• Can you find the little dog looking out of the window and a cat on a back seat? 
• What is in the tractor trailer?

Fill your page with different vehicles to make a traffic jam!

Don't forget to put in the drivers and passengers!