28 June

What we were making/doing:

Using our individual and group ideas of different imaginary characters we were making 3D scenery, drawings and comic strips. We were making superheros, stories about our characters and thinking about what these characters might say or do or speak like etc. We were also having a look and taking home our paintings (dried at long last!) from the previous week's painting-fest. Some of the painted fruit was still alive, but not really that edible anymore...! Thanks to our little artists from june 2011 Art Club for lots of fun and chat about art and other things!

Artists we were looking at:

Jack Teagle

Brecht Vanderbrouke

Jaakko Pallasvuo

Paper Rad

What we learnt:

We learnt about illustrators making use of space and scenery in their images and comics. We also learnt about making scenes in 3D and linking in each others work together to make a group piece of work

Some things we had to say about art this week:

'some of these artists must be crazy'
'that picture has every colour ever'

21 june

What we were making/doing:

Paint is awesome! We happen to think so anyway! This week we were painting on card, painting on different colours of paper, painting little bits, painting the whole page, mixing colours, sketch painting objects, taking our time, being quick, painting stuff we were talking about and somehow we also ended up painting on left over fruit and making prints from other paintings! A good old mess is always a good sign that some real art has been going on and indeed, we were all pretty messy. We looked at similarities and differences in different painters work and even tried out some of the techniques ourselves. 

Artists we were looking at:

Masaki Kawai

Franz Ackerman

Richard Prince

Robert Rauchenberg

Gary Hume

Cy Twombly

What we learnt:

We learnt about making different types of mark using paint and that making a mess with paint is the best way to understand the substance and how to then express an idea or image through it. We learnt that different artists use different ways of using paint to explore art. 

Some things we had to say about art this week:

'my paint mixed together looks like toothpaste'
'when I mix colours together it makes new colours I've never seen before'
'I can do the best fart noise'
'painting on our fruit is a bit like that painting where Rauchenberg painted off the painting and onto a chair in his house!'