Street Pianos London

“M” reports:
The artist Luke Jerram is responsible for the placing of 30 pianos around London.
Every piano has laminated music sheets for those rainy days and each is painted with a theme relating to the part of London it is in, along with the invitation ”play me, I’m yours”.
For more info, check out these links:
http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/whatson/street-pianos-london-feature-3079.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8114859.stm
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A Fitting End

Rather than leave our First World War entries unfinished, I thought that we would just note down how we brought our studies into The First World War to an end…
Our last activity was to complete our charcoal studies of scenes from The War. Those of you who saw our earlier charcoal drawings will have seen [...]

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Designing a Box – Puppy’s New Bed

In geography this week we have been looking at scale on maps, so it was a nice opportunity for us to use scale drawing for ourselves when we tackled our latest technology  design project on boxes.
The children were asked to design a box for a purpose, e.g to hold a toy, to present a cake, [...]

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Over by Christmas … Charcoal Compositions

We have been reading some personal accounts of people who remember the First World War, either as children or as soldiers who were sent to the Front. We have been learning how many people, both Germans and British, thought that the war would be “over by Christmas” and how many young men entered the war [...]

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First World War Portraits

We thought that our up-coming project on the First World War would provide some super opportunities for sketching with charcoal.
First, we prepared our paper by covering all of the white with charcoal. The children were surprised to discover that we would be drawing our basic shape with a soft eraser, building up our image with [...]

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Painting Monet’s Garden

On a recent visit to Monet’s garden at Giverney, we were inspired to take lots of photographs. Back home, we projected one of our photographs onto our Promethean interactive whiteboard and did some sketches. Being able to see the photograph on the whiteboard enabled us to really focus on the range of greens that we [...]

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A Visit to Monet’s Garden

Following a recent trip to Paris, we made a detour to Monet’s Garden at Giverney.
“M” reports…
On the way back from Paris we heard that we would pass Monet’s garden, so off we went. We arrived at place called Giverney. It was hidden in a little village – it would be sad if it was surrounded [...]

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From Western Dragons to a Good Queen

Here is A’s drawing of a Good Queen…

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Fantasy Art Book Stimulates Our Creativity

On a recent trip to the Big City we visited one of our favourite shops “The Works” – we like their art supplies section and enjoy searching for interesting books!
On this occasion we found Drawing Fantasy Art by Jim Hanson, John Burns and Steve Beaumont ISBN 978-1-84193-879-0, a super step-by-step guide to drawing your own [...]

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Stop Motion Animation with Lego

‘M’ and his friend ‘J’ have used iMovie and Garageband to make a Stop Motion animation.
Like Ray Harryhousen used to do – the lego and megablocks actors are moved small amounts between each frame – when it all plays back it looks like a movie. Sound effects and music were added – and picking the [...]

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