Book Character Day and Klimt Art

Friday was a busy day. We celebrated Mrs Noonan and all that she has contributed to the life of our school, particularly the library. As part of the celebration we dressed up as our favourite book characters. Our class was filled with Batman's, a few Amy's from different books, Hermione, Princess Haya ... a whole screed of characters. The whole school popped outside for a parade. Everyone looked pretty amazing.

In the afternoon we created some Klimt art. Klimt was around in the late 1800's/early 1900's. He was from Austria and he one of his most famous paintings is 'The Kiss'.

 We looked at Klimt's Tree of Life painting. We looked at the shape he used and the detail he added to the tree to make it more interesting. It is from Klimt's 'Gold Period'. We painted with Gold Acrylic paint onto sulphate paper. We painted the outline of our tree and then painted in the middle. We added our swirl branches. Once the paint dried we carefully put some white acrylic paint onto the gold for added detail. Lastly we carefully drew around the outside with a black vivid, adding detail to the white shapes if we wanted too. The finally products look amazing. Make sure you pop into class to check them out.