Reception and Year 1

Autumn 2

Our theme for this half term is 'Let's Get Creative!' and Reception and Year One have enjoyed learning about a range of artists and artistic styles. 

We have an 'Art Gallery' in our classroom for this theme which displays work by a different artist each week and resources to create a piece of art inspired by them. 

We started with Henri Matisse and specifically his cut out art works. Everyone enjoyed exploring colour, shape and position with their art work in this week and created some fantastic and colourful art work. 

Yayoi Kusama was our featured artist in our second week and we explored pattern and printing alongside her vibrant work. We had coloured stickers which we used to stick onto real objects and around our classroom too and we had circular stamps to create printed art work as well. 

Our Artist of the Week in the third week of this half term was Wassily Kandinsky and everyone enjoyed making geometrical art work inspired by this artist. We looked for objects around the classroom which had square, triangular or circular faces and used these as stencils to draw around. When we had drawn around several objects, we coloured our picture in using oil pastels.

Week Four of this half term marked the conclusion of our Art Gallery and we had one final Artist of the Week - Piet Mondrian. The class loved his art work as they were particularly drawn to the grids and vibrant, block colours. We recreated his art work by sticking electrical tape to a piece of A3 paper and then painting the sections red, blue or yellow.