Avenue House School
See what have been keeping Pine busy.
Pupils from Pine, Maple and Oak went to Brighton to visit the Toy Museum and Sea World.
Since visiting the Peter Doig exhibition on 21st April 2008 the children in yr.5 (Pine) have been working extremely hard creating their paintings inspired by Peter Doig. Here are some photographs showing these wonderful paintings. The children worked with acrylics on a large scale the smallest painting being 2 A1 sheets and the largest 4 A1 sheets. The children are righty very proud of their pictures which are currently on display in their classroom.
Take a closer look at some of the art produced.
Pine form, accompanied by nine parents and two members of staff, set out at nine o’clock on a rainy Monday morning to visit the hallowed rooms of “The Tate”. A fairly lengthy journey on the underground, changing once at Victoria, left us a short walk from Pimlico Station before arriving at the Gallery. After a much needed refreshment break (caffeine fix for eleven of us!) we ventured inside.
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This was not simply a trip to an Art Gallery, but rather a look at the paintings of a modern living artist, Peter Doig. We were still saying ‘who’, as we stepped inside. There was absolute silence as three powerful canvasses met each of us. So incredibly simple, but complicated - how did he do that? Amazing colours, varied textures, and the more we looked the more we discovered. Room after room surrendered its treasures: stunning, magical, mesmerising, baffling, and demanding |  |
After taking in the immensity of all this, we settled down to draw. Fascinated viewers sought the pupil’s thoughts on the paintings, as we continued our visit. If understanding something about ART means you have to engage with it, explore and then respond to it, then I think we all came away understanding a little bit more. But perhaps above all we had the most wonderful time!
View more photographs of this day trip.
Pine’s latest Art project involved the children firstly drawing glass bottles from still life. They worked with a variety of tonal pencils to add shade and shadow to their work.
They continued to produce a second piece of artwork working in a simpler format drawing rows of bottles. The children drew inspiration from their initial sketches to create interesting shapes; tall, short, fat bottles.
The children were then given the challenge of only having blue, black and white paint to work with. They were encouraged to mix a variety of blue tones, working with more vibrant blues in the foreground and more subdued tones as they worked back.
Finally the children used pastels and charcoal to draw around their bottles, which really makes the interesting shapes stand out.
During this project the children further developed their painting skills understanding how they can create the impression of distance in their work.
Also for your enjoyment are some photographs of Pine’s Aboriginal artwork. They created these wonderful paintings in Yr. 4. I do however, feel that they are too good to remove from the classroom display and that they should be enjoyed on the school website.
