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Year 5

Our Year 5 Art Gallery

Peter Thorpe - Space Paintings

Remembrance Day Poppies Oil Pastels

Viking Longboats Sketching

The Galaxy - Oil Pastels

We used oil pastels to create these galaxy pictures.

We learnt the skills of blending, smudging and layering.

We also learnt about using directional strokes with the oil pastels.

We experimented with blending in different ways to create different effects.

We found that a folded up paper towel worked well for blending our backgrounds.

For the stars, we used thin brushes and cocktail sticks to get a really fine point.

We also experimented with different colours.

We wanted our planets in the foreground to stand out from the blue/purple backgrounds.

So, we had to used contrasting colours.

We used complementary colours for our planets to ensure they blended well together.

Canopic Jars - Clay

We used clay to make our Ancient Egyptian Canopic Jars.

We spent lots of time learning about these jars and studying their style and colours.

We used a coil technique to make our jars sturdy and we used many clay techniques.

We used slip to stick different parts of our jars together.

Pinching is a technique we used to create ears, noses and other features on the heads.

We used a cross-hatching technique to stick different parts together securely.

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