Children As Artists : Inspiration for KS2 teachers, delight for all

Children have their own eyes. They each see what is around them in their own way. Given materials, opportunity and encouragement they can produce images which capture their own unique experience of what they see. They have the potential to be artists, at the time they are children and not merely at some time in their futures. We should delight in their art. [New visitors are strongly recommended to read my short INTRODUCTION (Featured Post) explaining more fully the context of this blog.]

Monday, 28 March 2022

African Art experience

Diverse works inspired by traditional art and artefacts from different African countries.

(For anyone interested, notes on the teaching approaches that helped children towards these outcomes are on the COMMENTARY PAGES of this blog.)

In the style of Van Gogh

With Y4 on this occasion, we looked at a number of Van Gogh paintings and talked about the mood he was created and the way he used paint to express his very particular way of seeing. We then took the actual Van Gogh pictures away so that the children worked from memory and what they had learned. Their images were, therefore, not trying to be direct copies of Van Gogh, but their own impression of his ‘impression’.

This is not, of course, particular individual creative work, but I think that this type of experience, from time to time, helps expand children’s awareness of possible approaches and what painting can be. Hopefully, this will help them build the confidence to create their own impression of the world they experience.