Christmas Still Life Photos

We make our own Christmas cards every year and last year we decided to experiment with photography.  We each thought of lots of Christmassy things and chose a still life subject to photograph.  We had to learn to use the new camera and we learned about different settings and how to take close up photos.  We learned about Macro photography which lets you get really close up to see detail and textures.  We practised using the tripod and different ways of lighting our objects.  Most of us used the timer on the camera along with the tripod to make sure our photos were not blurry.  It was great fun and we plan to do more photography this year. 

This year we did some work about The Four Seasons for our Spring Display. We all thought of some pictures that could represent the Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.  I chose lambs, sunbathing, pumpkins and warm clothes for my pictures.  We chose colour schemes for the different seasons like oranges and browns for Autumn.  Sue drew shadows of our faces so we could choose a face to blow the Autumn wind., and some of us had a go at guessing our faces.  We have apple trees on our allotment so we made 4 apple trees for the seasons with blossom, apples, autumn leaves and bare branches. We made vegetables growing at different stages for each season.   Nicky 

3D Plaster Work 2008

Our art and craft projects this year have been about 3D. We looked at Sculptures around the city. We looked at the Elephants when they were visiting and all chose a favourite one. We had a go at making moulds of our hands using play dough. Then we used plaster to make a model of our hands and we all made faces too. We had to make a mould first using all sorts of things to make the features. Then we filled it with plaster. We painted our hands and faces.  We have also made 3D picture frames out of plaster.  One student made his into a thermometer for a Mediterranean Garden.                                 

You can see all our frames as a FLICKR slideshow by clicking here