ART CLUB WEEK COMMENCING 20/01/2025

This week, Junior Art Club looked at Sandra Silberzweig and her wonderfully bright and bold paintings.   She is a contemporary Canadian artist who has synaesthesia - when she looks around she sees things electrified - colours are much more vibrant and bright and affect her other senses.   She has taken a difficult situation to live with and turned it into beautiful works of art.  

She uses many of the elements of art in her work; line, colour, shape, space and texture, and by looking at her work the group discussed movement and rhythm and how to achieve the feeling of movement in their pictures.

The children drew 3 large fish and 3 small fish on to A3 paper.   They then added flowing lines of seaweed in the background.   The fish were painted in cool colours and the background in warm colours to create a real contrast.   We also discussed shades and tints.   To add texture, patterns were added to the fish and, finally, all shapes were outlined in black and additional patterns could be added to the background if time.

WEKEY PIANO WEEK COMMENCING 13/01/2025

Tom had a request for ‘Green Green Grass’ by George Ezra at the Junior School.   The club all played this so brilliantly by the end of the lesson.  Keep practising this week to build the rhythm and speed of the music with attention to the finger numbers to guide you! 🙌 🎶 🎹 

ART CLUB WEEK COMMENCING 13/01/2025

It was a busy, fun session, making great, vibrant zebras!  The children drew some excellent zebras using black oil pastels, starting with a slanted U shape for the head, then adding the neck, body and legs.   We then cut thin stripes of black paper to make the stripes,  which was pretty tricky for little hands!     They glued the stripes on to the zebra and then glued their zebra on to the coloured background and added crazy manes and flicky tails!    Finally, they added green grass and the hot African sun!  We love the bright, bold results!