Painting our creatures

Our Niki de Saint Phalle creatures have returned! Frances Marsden has fired them for us, sending them back are (and brittle!) and white.

So we set about painting them bright colours, in the style of Niki de Saint Phalle.

All that's needed now is a coat of varnish, and then they're finished!

Clay work with Frances Marsden

As part of our IPC topic 'Significant People', we have been looking at the French painter and sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle.

Early in November we posted pictures of our own creature designs in the style of her work and today we have had the opportunity to create 3D models from clay.

Thank you to secondary art students and teachers for letting us use their special 'clay room'.

First we traced our design onto a slab of clay.

Next we went over our design to make it stand out.

Then we cut out the designs.

Next, we needed to put front and back slabs together.

After we'd cleaned up the edges, our creations were ready for Frances to take home and fire in her kiln.

In a few weeks she'll bring them back and we'll paint them!

Maia and the Niki de Saint Phalle sculptures

Maia has had a lot of experience of Niki de Saint Phalle's sculptures already!

Niki de Saint Phalle creatures

We've begun looking at a French artist called Niki de Saint Phalle in Year 4. She was a painter, but she's most famous for her sculptures.

 

She liked children's pictures, pictures that relied on the imagination, pictures with strong simple colours. 

 

 

She liked making animal pictures and sculptures, but changing the animals however her imagination led her to. She liked big monstrous animals. She liked bright, playful shapes.

When we'd had a good look at her work we created some monstrous creatures of our own, in the style of Niki de Saint Phalle: