We are now finishing our pirate art topic and today discussed the famous pirate artist Howard Pyle. We then moved on to selecting the correct paintbrush to water colour one of his paintings.

We have all worked very hard this week on pirate art including making collages, analysing famous pirate art and creating our own pirate flags using famous flags as inspirations.

Today in art the Puffins have been learning how to mix primary colours to make secondary colours. Once this was mastered and the correct colour palette was made we all had fun applying them to a copy of the artist Kandinsky painting Concentric Circles.

Puffins class have been exploring sculptures today in Art as part of our all about me topic. We then made our own sculptures using straws and masking tape.

Continuing our fantastic Arts Week on Georgia O’Keeffe the Puffins have been working together on a mural piece using Georgia O’Keeffe lily paintings. They have also done some watercolour paintings of lilies and created their own flowers using pipe cleaners all ready to be part of the art exhibit tomorrow.

Wow! A colourful start to Arts week. Today the children have learnt about our focus artist Georgia O’Keeffe, a fabulous still life painter who loved to painter landscapes and flowers. The children created their own version of a lily using tissue paper.

This week in Art, Puffins class have been focusing on self-portraits. We have finished off drawing one side of a photo using different coloured pencils to give different tones. Today we have used dot painting over a photo of themselves to show what different effects they can give to a plain image.

Another busy day in the Puffin class completing our pieces of art. Today as part of our Andy Warhol focus we drew around our hands and laid them to create a pop art effect using a variety of bold colours.