This video shows how Jackson Pollock controlled his lines to work with paint expressively. The children LOVED making these Jackson Pollock style paintings and they where surprised to find that rather than just splashing and splattering paint they really could control the types of lines they wanted to make. Read full article »

During our investigations of line we used ink and straws to see if we could control our lines in different ways. Blowing the ink across the page gave very interesting results and we had to try and control the lines to create shapes. We used water colour too - we realised a lot about how colours mixed by blowing the Read full article »

Continuing our unit on expression and abstract art the grade 2 students have been exploring the different types of line they can use in their art work. By looking at art works of their own and those of others they highlighted 7 different types of line: Straight, wavy, broken, curved, thin, thick and zig zag. We discussed how artists had used different Read full article »

The painter Kandinsky was said to have an usual sensory condition called synesthesia. This meant that he experienced the senses in an unusal way, when he heard music he saw colours and this was a huge inspiration to him and how he expressed himself through painting. Grade 2 explored the possibility of using the the emelents of colour, line and shape to express Read full article »