Donaghey P.S. | Class Journal

 

We began this week with a review of our work from the week before.

I liked how I did my eyes – James

My work felt like an experiment – Ryan

Inspiration for our watercolours came from Quentin Blake.

Drawings of myself is a self portrait – Macaulay

Testing – Testing!

We did lots of experimets today so we could see what happens our paints when we add more water than paint and when we add more paint than water.  We hope these experiments will help us in future weeks when we are doing more watercolours.

 

When the paint dropped it was like a volcano – Adam

 

 

The paint looked like it was growing – Isaac

Our drops were like hedgehogs putting its spikes out – Mia

 

 

We had an explosion of colour – Rowan

 

 

The colours were rolling on our page – Oliver

 

 

Our paint was dropping like rain.

 

 

The gold was spreading like the sun going down – Lily

 

Exit Words

*suprising  *messy  *spikey  *explosion  *spotty  *watercolour  *fun  *stripy  *creative  *dripping  *splashing  *wet  *painting

Today we wanted to make sure our paintings had good detail and looked like the obects we were drawing.  Ann told us to close our eyes and imagine!

After a while we opened our eyes and looked really closely at each others’ eyes so we could try and get as much detail as possible.

We invited our parents and grandparents into school today so they could see what we did on a Thursday morning with Ann.

Today we drew mums, dads, Amy and Darryl.

We used the IPads to take photographs.

We learned that the light should be behind the camera.

 

Exit Words

Not everyone had an exit word today but we know we need to have one at the end of each session.  This will help us focus throughout the lesson.

pen and wash     Darryl     terrified

drawing     black and white

faces     focus     self portrait

imagination     wrinkles     stuntman

photos     group work     Amy

IPad     parents

mums and dads     blurry

lookalikes      sunshine

 

*fugiddyoffee

*sporugball

*teafulo

*fudoall

*sporny

*shappy

*spazy

*hougort

*illyeoud

*sploud

*oudangam

*pascano

*smapppple

*chfug

*unogat

Today was our first day doing art with Ann.  We were really excited when a surprise letter came in the post.  It was addressed to P3/4 and Mrs Wilson.  Our letter was from Ann!!

Today was our welcome day.  We talked about The BFG, what Art is, sketches, watercolour and how we have to focus each week.

Our inspiration today came from The BFG.

Today  we mixed  watercolours.

We also sketched using pens.  Boys’ Group

We all enjoyed sketching.

We loved using water to mix our colour. Girls’ Group.

 

The Rembrandt style looked as if it would be really easy but I found it hard- Euan

Drawing in Rembrandt style was easier when I was drawing myself, as I was more free to draw the lines I wanted-Patrick

Today was enjoyable because we were drawing in completely different styles – Beth

I feel more confident now and I feel my drawings have improved because of today. – Joshua

I liked using charcoal.-Aimee H

I found this week easier than last week.-Emma

I liked using chalk and charcoal in the same picture . –  Daniel

Today we did lots of shading – Elena

Today we drew lots of lines – Leandra

I like drawing myself with pen- William

I liked drawing myself with charcoal and chalk -Rachael

I liked using chalk because it showed where the light was.-Courtney

I found it easier drawing myself than Rembrandt-Rachel

I liked drawing with pen. My favourite was the Rembrandt style. Joseph

We enjoy drawing ourselves more than other people.

We enjoy learning from other artists’ work.

From we started using the drawing boards…..

*we have become more confident .

*we have the posture of  “real artists” .

*we are proud of our work.

 

 

When you smudge and add texture to your drawings, they look more real.  The one with the big afro inspired me-Joseph

I think this is better and I enjoyed it- Euan

We felt more relaxed this morning. We prefer to smudge chalk than charcoal, maybe because it is not as dirty.- Elena

Today I felt more relaxed when I used Eddie Rafferty’s drawing as my inspiration- Rachel

We were really inspired by other artists’ work.-Daniel

Looking at other artists` work lets us see the lines, the shading and the detail. This helped us with our observations. – Elena

I feel my drawing today is my best so far. – Elena

Today was my favourite day. -Courtney

I left my chalk lines and didn’t smudge as I wanted to try something different. I usually smudge so I wanted to see  how the lines would be different.-Patrick

Today everybody enjoyed using different medium and different paper.-Emma’s group

When we first used charcoal we created a bit of a fuss, but today we didn’t fuss, we just got on with it- Elena’s group

Our work today was really different even though we were all looking at the same picture.-Beth

Today was fun as we used chalk and charcoal and everyone enjoyed smudging- Sarah’s group

Today we used chalk on black paper to draw profiles. We tried to show all the detail of the face-Courtney’s group.

The chalk can be used to make thick and thin lines .-Nicole

I liked using pencil more than charcoal.-Ellie D

I liked smudging the charcoal today, before today I didn’t like using charcoal.- Aimee H

Eddy Rafferty Sketches – Pencil work on card

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our exit words for today

detail – Aimee

charcoal – Ellie

drawing partners – Rachael

portrait pictures – Nicole

copying drawings – Leandra

inspiration from other artists-Sarah

fun – Daniel

messy-William

half a picture-Beth

charcoal and pencils-Emily

Picasso-Patrick

Eddie Rafferty-Emma

extraordinary- Euan

black and white – Bethany

awesome-Joshua

texture-Courtney

chalk-Sam

shading-Elena

great- Rachel S

artistic-Joseph

 

 

 

 

 

 

I noticed ..

Every body was concentrating – Emily

I can make new colours by mixing – Beth

It is hard to draw people when they are working – Patrick

You need to work slowly so it is not messy and untidy – Sam (But it is ok to experiment and let yourself make mistakes – Ann)

I saw the way charcoal could be shaded – Rachel

I painted my thumb – Elena

I discovered that the charcoal was very delicate – William

Drawing something that wasn’t moving was easier, it wasn’t shaking – Courtney

 

 

 

Today we were drawing with bread.  Ellie

I liked it today because we were using charcoal and it was very messy!  Sarah

I liked art with Ann today because I got covered in charcoal, literally it was every where, on my face, on my hands and even on my leg. BEST DAY EVER!!! Courtney

I really liked getting really dirty and it gets really itchy and your hands are really black. Sam

We had some bread to make a picture and some charcoal.  Bethany

I liked using charcoal because we got very messy.  Emily

Today at school we used different pencils to find the difference. We also got very messy with charcoal. We had lots of fun!!!!

What I liked about today was we got to use bread to take away charcoal from our pages. Rachel

We drew on a page with bread but first we had to cover the page with charcoal and then drew our partner with the.  IT WAS GREAT FUN.  Beth

I liked getting messy with the charcoal but it was disgusting when we had to draw with the bread because the bread went black. Nicole

I liked using the bread to draw with. I liked using charcoal.  Aimee H

We were all using charcoal. We all got dirty. Would you ever have thought about using bread to rub out charcoal.  Guess what? We did!! It was really weird. Daniel

We used bread to take off charcoal. We had to do shading where the light was coming from. Elena