Year 4

Art Week

During Art Week, Year 4 started by exploring our artist named Andy Warhol and his style of art known as Pop Art. The children then began by creating name badges in the style of Warhol. They also created an artist page all about our artist.

They then learnt about the 6 formal elements of art and used this knowledge to annotate a range of Andy's art work, identifying the elements used within each of his pieces. After that, the children created an observational drawing of Warhol's famous piece of art work named Black Bean. When creating this observational drawing, they had to think carefully about both size and proportion. 

The children then created 3 different pieces of art work inspired by Warhol. The first piece of art work was created using charcoal. In order to create this piece, the children were provided with a photo of themselves. They then shaded in the back of their photo using a piece of charcoal. Once shaded, the children turned their photo over and traced carefully over the photo of themselves which then left a charcoal print of themselves on their piece of paper. 

The second piece of art work was created using oil pastels. The children were given a collage of 4 images of themselves which they had to shade over using contrasting oil pastels. 

The final piece of art work was created digitally where the children explored being able to edit their photographs considering colour and tone.