Today, we have started our new mini topic, Art Attack, and our first lesson was all about exploring colour. As well as using different art techniques, we’ll learn about some famous artists too.
Here are some of the Year 2 art objectives we will be covering.
- Can your child respond to and explore ideas?
- Can your child investigate and use materials and processes (eg drawing, painting, 3D work, collage, printing, e-art, textiles) to communicate ideas and make images / artefacts?
- Can your child investigate and use a variety of visual and tactile elements (eg when using colour, shade, pattern, line, texture, form, shape, composition, scale, proportion and tone) to communicate ideas and make images / artefacts?
- Can your child describe what they think or feel about their own and others’ work (including that of significant artists), making suggestions to improve?
- Can your child comment on differences between pieces of art?
- Can your child name the primary and secondary colours?
- Is your child aware of different grades of pencil for drawing?
After reading about the life of Vincent Van Gogh in our guided reading lesson, we compared his work with the work of Wassily Kandinsky. It was interesting to hear the children’s differing views when talking about some of their famous pieces of art. We respected each others’ opinions.
Based on our Living and Learning statement this week, I know the difference between being proud and showing off, we considered how these artists would have felt about their paintings.
Here we are creating secondary colours from primary colours.
We looked at the way Kandinsky had used colours, warm and cold, to create his painting, Squares with concentric circles, and then began to create our own versions. We’ll be back to our paintings later in the week.
