The images below are from years 1 and reception. They are taken from my recent involvement in Our Lady's primary school art week. For the two younger years of the school, we picked two artists to study and introduced the children to Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock. The children were fascinated by both artists and enjoyed copying a similar practice to their own work.
Reception enjoyed painting with the paint- bombs i made with food bags with snipped ends and dancing over a canvas to four different tempo's of music. Florence and machines played loudly as they moved the paint bombs to the beat of ' You've got the love'. This had an amazing observational effect on my study of the children who picked bright colours and really went for it, creating a bright splattering of the paint. We tried three other types of music that created different rhythm motions onto the canvas, some slower movements and some aggressive. The children have now produced four large canvas's that have been sealed [ water tight] and stretched to hand in their playground.
The artist was Andy Warhol, this was easier to explain as the children were a little older and more controlled of their hand movements, therefore being a little more accurate with their drawing and painting skills. I started the idea of creating Warhol's pop art imagery and took individual photographs of each child. I edited them on photoshop and repeated them four times. The children were shown images of Warhol's work and asked to stick to a colour palette. The children did a fantastic job and the results were a little crazy........just what we like. There is also an image of some fruit printing that i had done earlier in the year with some of the pre-school children.
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