Art Smart Balham

📸✂️ KS2 Photography Club – Cut, Create, Transform! ✂️📸

Our young photographers explored collage techniques inspired by artists like David Hockney — transforming a single photograph by cutting it up and rearranging it in their own unique way.

There was no right or wrong way, just creativity and experimentation.

👀 Look closely
✂️ Cut boldly (big, small, careful or rough!)
🔄 Rearrange — flip it, overlap it, change the focus
🖇️ Stick when composition looks great

The results are imaginative, thoughtful and completely individual. I love how each child reimagined their image!

Over the past 4 weeks in our Natural Forms project, we’ve been building observational drawing skills through flowers 🌸

We started by making our own viewfinders to zoom in on tiny sections — really training our eyes to see shape and detail. Next, we used light boxes to accurately record outlines and understand proportion.

Our final challenge? Drawing from direct observation 🌿 Translating a 3D flower into a 2D image and capturing shadow and tone.

The progress has been incredible. From grid studies to final pieces in pencil, oil pastel, fine liner and watercolour, the children have shown such confidence and creativity ✨

🎨✨ Loads more fun at Art Textiles Club! The children have been hard at work bringing their ideas to life, translating sketches from paper onto fabric. 🪡🐦 Their appliqué bird designs are already looking amazing, and the embroidery embellishments are adding such a fantastic, personal touch!

The natural forms project is well underway, as pupils learn to use light boxes effectively to support pencil tonal studies and expressive oil pastel work.🌿

From thread to creation! Fun sewing classes for kids! 🌟