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Welcome to the Willingham Primary School Home Learning art blog. I will be posting ideas for art activities at home using pencil and paper as I imagine that most of you will have these to hand at home. Drawing is a wonderful activity to do wherever you are and I will hope to update these pages regularly. I have indicated whether they are more suitable for KS1 or KS2 but do feel free to try them all out if you like.

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Archive
  • 17/05/20

    Victor Vasarely: KS2

    I was very impressed by the artwork inspired by Bridget Riley that some of you have completed at home and thought that we should do some more Op Art. You will probably remember that Op Art is a type of abstract act that uses geometric shapes and patterns to create an effect a little like an optical...
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  • 17/05/20

    Piet Mondrian: KS1

    The last two weeks' lessons have involved drawing, so this week I thought that we could look again at digital art and create a piece of work using a laptop, tablet or phone on Purple mash.
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  • 10/05/20

    Grid Drawing, part 2: KS2

    Last week, I taught you how to create an accurate outline drawing using the grid method. A grid made up of squares is marked on an original drawing or photograph and a similar grid drawn on your piece of paper. You can then transfer the main lines and features of the original onto your own artwork...
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  • 10/05/20

    Picasso Drawing: KS1

    This week, we will looking at one of the most famous artists of the twentieth-century, Pablo Picasso.  
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  • 03/05/20

    Grid Drawing: KS2

    For the next couple of weeks, we are going to learn how to do grid drawing. This week, you can try an outline drawing and next week, we will add some shading to complete the picture.
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  • 03/05/20

    Underwater scene: KS1

    For the next week or two, your English lessons will be based on the story of Tiddler, by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by one of our favourite artists, Axel Scheffler. He was born in Hamburg, in Germany and knew from an early age that he wanted to be an artist. He went to art college in the U.K...
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  • 27/04/20

    Op Art: KS2

    Bridget Riley is one of our Table Label Artists. She is British artist and was born in Norwood, London in 1937. She is famous for a style of painting know as Op Art, a type of abstract art that uses geometric shapes and patterns, often in black and white. The works use optical illusions and will som...
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  • 26/04/20

    The Way Back Home: KS1

    This week, in your English work, you will be reading and writing about a book by one of our favourite illustrators in art, Oliver Jeffers.
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  • 19/04/20

    Creating a Home-made Sketchbook

    Working in a sketchbook is one of the best ways to develop your skills as an artist. At Willingham Primary School, all KS 2 children use a sketchbook and it is often our starting place for a new project but you can create and use a sketchbook at any age using odd pieces of paper that might...
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  • 19/04/20

    Pencil skills: Shading

    This online lesson is all about pencil skills. We have been concentrating on projects using only a pencil and paper as I know that most of you will have these to hand as you work from home and this is an ideal time to develop our skills in shading. A pencil is not just something that you use to sket...
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  • 02/04/20

    Easter Digital Art Challenge!

    Hello everyone! This is a post to introduce a new venture on the art home learning blog: my Easter digital art challenge.
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  • 01/04/20

    Digital Art Challenge: KS1

    Hello, lovely KS1 children. In this post, I am going to show you how to create a digital picture on Purple Mash. When you have practised a bit and are feeling really confident, you can create a picture celebrating the arrival of spring and send it to me for our digital art gallery. You can find out...
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