Year B Autumn Term - Year 3/4 - Fruit and Vegetables

Try using a pencil to complete a fruit or vegetable drawing at home. What difference does this make in terms of the overall style of the drawing? 

Draw your own vegetable portrait in the style of Arcimboldo's 'The Gardener'.

Draw an advertising poster to attract visitors to Carl Warner's exhibition of 'Foodscapes'. 

Design a picture about your life at school, using only objects found in the classroom e.g. pencils, rulers.

Freeze frame 'Nativity with St Francis and St Lawrence' (1609) by Caravaggio. 

Create a storyboard telling the life of Caravaggio. 

Year B Autumn Term - Year 5/6 - South and Central American Art

Design a brightly coloured coat for Frida to wear.

Write a story using no words, just symbols.

Create a noughts and crosses style game, using symbols found in some of Joaquin Torres Garcia's paintings. 

Find key information about Mexico e.g. flag, capital city, head of the country, famous exports, food, clothes, famous people. 

Find out more about the use of dream catchers in Native American culture. 

Design face painting and a costume to match their candombe drums, ready for a festival. 

Year B Spring Term - Year 3/4 - Collage

Create a collage of a landscape scene.

Year B Spring Term - Year 5/6 Prehistoric Art

Have a look online at some tips for 'how to draw prehistoric art for kids'. Can you follow the instructions to help you to create your own art?

Year B Summer Term - Year 3/4 - Insects

In our sketch books this term we will be studying the different features of insects and using different media to show them up-close. At home, have a go at sketching a real-life image of an insect.

Year B Summer Term - Year 5/6 - Georgia O'Keefe: Plants & Flowers

We will be using our artistic eye to create still life images of plants and flowers in the style of Georgia O'Keefe. On a walk, see how many different types of plants and flowers you can spot!

Year A Autumn Term - Year 3/4 - Artist

Research Kandinsky and create a fact file all about his life and career.

Can you create some artwork in the style of Kandinsky?

Year A Autumn Term - Year 5/6 - Artist

Research Picasso and create a fact file all about his life and career.

Can you create some artwork in the style of Picasso?

Year A Spring Term - Year 3/4 - Global Landscapes

Can you find any 'contemporary' landscapes by artists? What mediums have been used?

Year A Spring Term - Year 5/6 - Amazing Architecture

Can you find out what 'Listed' buildings are?

Can you find pictures of any listed buildings in the Upper Eden area?

Year A Summer Term - Year 3/4 - Mod Rock Facemasks

Can you design and make a mod roc sarcophagus and mummy?

Year A Summer Term - Year 5/6 - Eastern European Art

Can you find any 'contemporary' Eastern European art?

Who are the artists and what mediums have been used?