Art Pod The Heights

05/04/2020

I hope people had fun with pirate week. A big thank you to all that shared their creations with us! We love to see your artwork!

Its not too late! If you'd like to share any artwork please post in the comments below! Plus it doesn't need to be pirate themed we'd just love to see anything you've been working on during the week :-)

19/03/2020

18/03/2020

Art Pod afterschool classes at the Heights are still running this week.

I hope everyone enjoyed the clay creations brought home last week. Here’s a sneaky peak at some of the artwork that was created ...

07/03/2020

This week we started a 2 week project in air dry clay. We experimented with building pinch pots and coiled shapes with cupcakes as our inspiration (some examples created by Key Stage 1 & 2 classes shown) Some of the children added their own creative twist on the theme so some surprise creations coming home soon! Plus check out these beautiful Wayne Thiebaud cupcakes that we'll look at before starting our painting next week ...

16/02/2020

We’ve had a fun 2 weeks with Pop Art and Andy Warhol’s love of cats as our inspiration! After practicing sketching skills the children moved onto designing a 4 section artwork mixing up colours and media. Some of the children are still working on this project, but check out these fabulous and colourful images ...

Happy Half term to all our Art Podders & their families x

31/01/2020

This week was our second week practicing drawing skills. This time our models were toy fish and we looked at drawing the shapes we could see in the fish and then practised some blind contour drawing. Our final artwork stayed with the theme of fish then the children got to experiment with brusho to add colour! Check out these beautiful fishy scenes ...

23/01/2020

The children have blown me away with their artistic skill this week! Brilliant drawing and design skills on show. We practised different ways of drawing fruit as well as looking at negative space in our drawings. Hope you enjoy their drawings as much as I do! ...

20/01/2020

It was such a joy to welcome all our young Art Podders to class last week! Being week 1 it was all about decorating our sketchbooks. It was an anything goes sort of week and I love all the wonderful designs the children came up with ...

24/12/2019

Merry Christmas all from Art Pod 🎄🥳🎁🎉

02/12/2019

Last week Key Stage 2 worked hard to finish off their beautiful 3D buildings! Whilst our Key Stage 1 class experimented with weaving and 3D card design with Christmas baubles as their inspiration!

24/11/2019

We’ve had a fun couple of weeks designing, decorating and building 3D houses. As part of the process we experimented with collage. Key stage 2 are still finishing their creations, but please check out some of the lovely builds created by key stage 1 :-)

10/11/2019

Beautiful autumnal leaves were our inspiration this week! In our key stage 2 club we looked at the process of block printing using felt tip pens and water, then experimented!
In our key stage 1 club we had fun with oil pastel resist! Loving the different directions the children have taken this project:-) 🍁🍂🌿