Surreal Imagination

We have been talking and thinking about how artists draw and paint their art. We compared work by a few artists and discussed what realistic and abstract art is.

Some children already created their own "cityscape" using an online 

program from the Tate gallery in London.

Kids Tate

Students have also been learning how to sketch using a viewfinder, and transfer and enlarge images.
Good practise for our class project below.  

Our scaled up painting is an ambitious project, but has turned the group room into a working studio 

and the children into real artists!

Students enlarge their square of the picture by transferring pencil lines onto the canvas.

 Using the overhead projector and grid system the children begin the arduous task of transferring each part of their image taking care to match up lines with the squares around their own.

Watch this space to see our completed full size surrealist style painting!