Visual Arts Planning: Inspired by Artists

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Year 3, Ruth at Carden Primary School

Explore Resources Inspired by Artists…

autobiographical houses

Painting inspired by Kandinsky

Create sculptural 'homes' inspired by Rachel Whiteread

landscapes inspired by john piper

An A3 collage inspired by John Piper's landscapes.

Use collage to explore Piper’s coastal works

Sesnory Sculptures inspired by Barbara Hepworth

Using wire to construct

Explore drawing and making in a half-term project

COLLAGE: DECONSTRUCTING, RECONSTRUCTING, ABSTRACTING

Using wire to construct

Create a collage inspired by an artwork

giant jewellery: multimedia responses to yayoi kusama

Painting inspired by Kandinsky

Explore sketchbooks, drawing, collage and 3D

cooking with collage

Food Collage by Tobi Meuwissen

Create a collage inspired by Claire Harrup's packaging

drawing and making inspired by illustrators

Using wire to construct

Explore Where the Wild things Are by Maurice Sendak

drawings with mass

Using wire to construct

Capture form inspired by Henry Moore

drama and art

Painting inspired by Kandinsky

Explore artwork through drama exercises

our creative community inspired by Samantha Bryan

Create fairies from clay and found objects

Create fairies from clay and found objects

drawing and making inspired by illustrators

Using wire to construct

Explore Where the Wild things Are by Maurice Sendak

drawings with mass

Using wire to construct

Capture form inspired by Henry Moore

Inspired by miro - collage and sculpture

Sculpture Inspired by Joan Miro

Explore colour, shape and composition

inspired by the textiles of henry moore

Water colour painting inspired by Henry Moore's tapestries

Create tonal washes inspired by Henry Moore

quentin blake's drawings as inspiration

Drawing inspired y Quentin Blake

Use exaggeration as a tool to help drawing from life

Drawing toys inspired by gwen john's

Drawing toys

Create drawings of toys inspired by Gwen John

Where The Wild Things Are

A series of resources inspired by Maurice Sendak

A series of resources inspired by Maurice Sendak

splendour and opulence inspired by klimt

Exploring Batik techniques

Respond to the painting ‘Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I’

painting inspired by Van Gogh

Painting inspired by Vincent Van Gogh

Paint on plaster using oil pastel, linseed oil & graphite

Our river - inspired by Georges Seurat

Collaborative large scale painting

Use “Bathers at Asnières” as inspiration for a collaborative piece

COLOUR COMPOSITION AND BEN NICHOLSON

Art work inspired by Ben Nicholson

Explore the visual weight of shapes

Da Vinci - Drawings of inventions

Drawing inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci

Be inspired by Da Vinci’s notebook drawings

drawing with wire inspired by calder

Drawing with wire

Create wire drawings inspired by Calder

heavy/light mobile - drawing and making

making mobiles

Make mobiles based on Calder work

drawing feathers

Drawing feathers

Create drawings of a feather inspired by Ruskin

Drawing with scissors

Collage in the style of Matisse

Draw, collage and print inspired by a painting

drawing water

Drawing water

Juxtapose studies of water by old and new artists

Pop-Up Puppets

Making pop up puppets

Design puppets inspired by a painting

drawing with mass

Drawing with mass and volume

Explore mass and volume inspired by Henry Moore

Japanese ceramics

Japanese ceramics

Create paintings inspired by Usaka Koji's ceramics

Drawing to Feed Making

Drawing to inform making

Use seascapes by J.M.W. Turner as a starting point

colour mixing

Mixing the colours of pansies

Colour mixing inspired by Winnifred Nicholson

still life drawing in a cubist style

Still life inspired by the Cubist style

Explore Cubist ideas of drawing time and space

Gothic revival - exploring glass painting

Window at the Leach Brother studio, City Road, Cambridge

Explore 4 craft techniques: pouncing, tessellating, gilding and painting

monoprinting inspired by goya

Exploring mono printing

Find large-scale mono printing and expressive mark-making

Screenprinted campaign posters

Making campaign posters

Work together to create large-scale campaign posters

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exploring materials: clay and water

Experimenting with clay

Explore clay, inspired by Antony Gormley’s installation ‘Field’

Making Sculpture inspired by degas

Explore sculptures by French artist Edgar Degas

Explore sculptures by French artist Edgar Degas

how to use thermoplastic moulding

Making kinetic mobiles using thermoplastic moulding techniques

Create components for brightly coloured, kinetic mobiles

drawings inspired by degas

Drawing and painting inspired by Degas

This resource explores drawings by Edgar Degas

Propaganda Art

Propaganda art

Three sessions exploring the art of Shepard Fairey

Sculpture from Sculpture

Creating sculpture

Explore C20th sculpture and sculptural processes

all that glitters

Making decorative images with glitter and beads

A project based on the work of Andrew Logan

Kinetic mobile

Making kinetic mobiles

Make wire sculptures based on Calder

journeys inspired by kandinsky

Painting inspired by Kandinsky

Capture the tone, texture and feel of a place

monotypes inspired by degas

Explore Edgar Degas , inky drawings or monotypes

Explore Edgar Degas , inky drawings or monotypes

Tall Skinny

Using wire to construct

Find inspiration in Phyllida Barlow and Rebecca Warren

volcano painting inspired by frank bowling

Using wire to construct

Explore texture, scale and texture

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