We learned all about a contemporary pop artist called Yayoi Kusama. Yayoi Kusama is originally from Japan and she lived for a while in New York! Her parents did not want her to be an artist when she was younger so she had to work very hard to convince them to allow her pursue her dreams. Kusama’s art is always FULL of polka dots and she is even nicknamed The Polka Dot Princess! Check out this video about her here:

We were very inspired by her artwork and decided to recreate some polka dot art ourselves! Here we are working on our polka dot pumpkins and then showing off our finished pieces! We used printing materials to create the polka dots and then an oil pastel on black paper to design our backgrounds. we hope you enjoy having them as a Halloween decoration at home over the next week!

This month we continued our study of the elements of art when we explored ‘line’ together. Once we had experimented with different types of lines, we used this knowledge to create beautiful and interesting lines which look just like flowers! We created a very unique background by colouring splodges, lines and patterns using markers onto the shiny side of some tinfoil, then we sprayed some water on it and printed the colour onto our pages! We were amazed by the results!

This month, we have been the class chosen to display some Gaeilge work on the school Gaeilge noticeboard. We are very proud of our work – we wrote profiles all about ourselves and our families. We included some key words and phrases which we learned in class and took part in some shared writing as well as independent writing to complete this task. Check out the Gaeilge board below!

We continued our colour study a little while ago and we focused on warm and cool colours! We learned that artists often use warm and cool colours to make us feel something. Warm colours included colours like red, orange and yellow, while cool colours included colours like blue, green and purple.

We traced around our hands to create and outline and then used warm and cool colours to create an optical illusion type of art! We’re sure you’ll agree that these are very eye-catching!