Ann showed us this picture to show us different browns she found in a briar leaf
These were the photographs we took for each colour in our natural colours paintbox.
We used the colour picker to find the best colour for the paintbox in each each photograph. Sometimes the colours we picked up really surprised us!
We worked in our groups and Ann gave us two colours to find in the classroom. We had look for the best man-made object for each colour and then take a photos with the ipad.
Our groups names are the Turtles, Rabbits, Frogs, Hedgehogs and Squirrels. Ann gave us the colours light yellow, dark yellow, light red, dark red, light green, dark green, yellow-brown, light brown, dark brown, light blue, dark blue and black to find.
You can read our “what, when, where” words for each colour.
This is our Man-Made Colours Paintbox from our classroom.
Ann has a son in P7 – this is his new paintbox.
This page which tells you the names of the colours.
Ann sent us to look for each colour in the paintbox but we were only to find them in man-made things in the classroom.
Ann told us she was going to do the same in her studio.
Ann asked us to write down the where, when, what words about each colour.
We talked with Ann
Ann showed us some colours she had looked at.
We talked about adding different colours on top of each other and smudging them with our fingers.
We had to pick the part of our page which looked most like the colour.
Ann asked us to collect some words about the colour we picked outside. We had to answer the questions when, where or what, about our colour.
Looking for different colours in our classroom.
We talked about man-made things and natural things and colours. It was was quite hard.
Ann asked us to tell her about something new we had seen;
Megan, “The colour of the small board is blue. It looked white before.”
Harry, “On the home time picture on the timetable there is a little bit of green.”
Mia, ” The red bell – the bell is shiny”
Using our looking tubes helps us to see things we didn’t see before;
Joshua ” a tractor”
Eve “binoculars”
Jamie ” I saw your camera and you were looking at me”
Emeline “a pot of names”
Ollie “the inside bit was smooth”
Our first talk with Ann the artist
P2 ( 2015- 2016), Miss White (class teacher, and Ann (the artist)
begin a new phase of the project together,
LOOKING and SEEING
P2 watched their video pieces again and this time they had to pin point one material/object which stuck out in their mind. Then they set about finding an object which was as similar to this as possible.
Back in the classroom they added this one item, this one selected element of residue, to the bottle within which they had already recreated the one selected colour from their video works.
This is such intriguing work P2.
P2 carefully watched the video pieces they’d made the previous week. They then had to mix up in their paint palettes, as close a match as possible, with the one specific colour which stuck out most in their mind from their video. They were not to tell anyone what colour they had selected. In effect then each group could have had 5 or 6 tones of the same colour (depending on the numbers of pupils in each group), as they were responding to the same video piece, or each person could have selected an entirely different colour – judge for yourself from the photo above.
I was so impressed P2 by how much work you put in (along with Miss White’s careful guidance) to mixing up your colours as accurately as possible. Well done! I’m excited by the range as well as the subtly of the results.
