Art at Medbury

Year 6 Ming Dynasty Vases

The Year 6 boys have been looking at Chinese pottery from the Ming Dynasty era. We drew the vases and decorated them with traditional Chinese patterns. Next we made our own vases out of clay. They will be fired in the kiln, glazed and fired again.

Year 5 Abstract Painting

How I made it: firstly I had to get some scrap paper and a pencil and draw different sized squares. Then I drew two lines close to each other that would connect to the squares. After that we showed the teacher the drawings and if she thought it was good enough then you traced over the pencil with vivid and coloured in the squares with your house colours. You could also put other colours to mix with your house colours so it would go a different colour. I loved it!

Marcus Fogarty, 5O

Year 7 Masks and Portraits

For the first term, we focused on abstract art and portraits. Mrs Johnson gave us clay, which we put on wooden boards and rolled out. We cut out the clay for the face and the leftover clay was used for the eyes, mouth and other features. Then when the clay had been fired in the kiln, we put the glazes on. The boys had to apply three layers of glaze so it would really stand out. It was lots of fun.

Harry Reekie, 7C

Year 8 Universe Art

For this piece of art, we had to design and create a picture of the universe. Mine was a number of different planets with a variety of colours, on a night sky background that we had to create by flicking paint from a toothbrush onto the paper. My favourite part was getting to colour in the planets with pastel chalk. It was lots of fun and we got to use our imagination.

Cullen Brown, 8L