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Lucy Jones!

2010-06-21T03:28:00.000-07:00

Lucy Jones was born in 1955 in London and she often does lots of acrylic paintings. She does lots of self portaits. She has Cerebral Palsy which effects her movement which will effect her paintings.

This picture is called 'Just Sitting' and it was drawn in 2005.

I think you are marvelious the way you cope, i think this means that she is proud that she hasn't let her disability get in the way of her life. Also, she could have been told that from her doctors, friends, family and people that look after her. She has used dull colours for her painting because she might feel upset that she is different and feels ashamed of her condition.

Cornfield! x

2010-06-14T03:04:00.000-07:00

Wheatfield with crows.

By Vincent Van Gogh

Date 1890

This image was painted by Vincent Van Gogh,
a very famous artist born in 1853 and died in 1890.
In this picture, it shows a massive wheatfield
with many crows picking at the crops.
Also, it shows a nice blue sky with
different shades of blue to make it blend in.
I like this picture because it is
brightly coloured and is very well detailed.
I think it is happy and sad because it shows
the wind blowing and the corn going from side to side and it uses bright colouurs but also, it is quite sad because it also uses dull colours that doesn't give it a very good effecft.

Altered Book Project!

2010-04-26T03:02:00.000-07:00

So far in this project we have cut out pages from our hard back books with craft knives. We created templates so we could make the body of the sea creature. Then we folded the pages to make them pop out!

Ernst Haeckel :

The artists we have looked at are Ernst Haeckel & Su Blackwell.

Su Blackwell :

In Ernst Haeckel's work, he uses sea creatures and Su blackwell came up with the idea of this project so we linked them together and decided to do a sea creature that pops out of a book!

Zarah Hussain!

2010-02-22T03:02:00.000-08:00

Zarah Hussain is a muslim artist.

Her artwork is repeated with different shapes.

She paints simple works of art using simple geometric shapes.

Islamic Art!

2010-02-22T02:58:00.000-08:00

Islamic Art links with maths because it involves symmetry and geometry.

Jasper Johns!

2010-02-08T03:20:00.000-08:00

Jasper Johns was born on May 15th 1930 and became a professional painter.

Tessellation!

2010-02-08T02:55:00.000-08:00

Last week we learnt about Tessellation.

This can be described as a pattern being repeated over & over again to create a piece of art work.

We searched on the Internet to find an artist who used this in their work.

I looked at an artist called Escher.

In my opinion his art work was detailed and it looked like he had spent a lot of time on each one.
We then made 'Verity's Kite'. We made this using Origami.
This required careful folding so that the kites were correct.
Adding all the angles of the kite together = 360 degrees.
If made correctly the kite fits together without any gaps to make a Tessellation.

Prime Numbers!

2010-02-08T02:53:00.000-08:00

Prime numbers are numbers that can be divided by itself and 1.

Escher!

2010-02-01T03:15:00.000-08:00

Escher is an artist whose works have included a considerable mathematical content.
Born: 17 June 1898 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Died: 27 March 1972 in Laren, Netherlands.

Tessellation!

2010-02-01T02:57:00.000-08:00

A tessellation is created when a shape is repeated over and over again covering a plane without any gaps or overlaps. :)

Origami x

2010-01-25T03:19:00.000-08:00

Origami is a style of paper folding using only one piece of paper. You can create different sculptures with paper by folding it many times. 'Oru' = Folding & 'Kami' = Paper.

It was practised in the Edo era (1603 -1867).

Pattern!

2010-01-25T03:07:00.000-08:00

Pattern is when you create a picture that is repeated and it also uses bright colours.