Monday 15th June 2020

Today, we will be looking at difference between the 4 seasons and creating some artwork to show these differences.

Can you name all of the months of the year, in order? Spring

This is the season that we have just finished. Spring is the season where a lot of new life begins (remember, we learnt about new life and Easter in RE?) New life can mean animals being born, flowers beginning to grow again and leaves returning to trees after the cold winter. Summer

After Spring, we have Summer. Summer is the warmest season and this is the season that we are in now. There are more daylight hours in Summer than in any other season.

The trees are full of leaves by the Summer and flowers have bloomed. Summer is a very colourful season, with lots of wildlife. Autumn

Next is Autumn. In the Autumn, the leaves turn from green to orange and brown and red. There are so many colours in Autumn as the leaves prepare to fall off the trees before Winter. In the USA, they call Autumn, Fall.

Animals forage in Autumn which means that they collect food to store for the winter. Winter Finally we have Winter. This is the last season before we start again with the seasons cycle.

Winter is the coldest season. Sometimes there is snow but not always unless you live in the very far north. Many animals hibernate during the winter and most trees have lost their leaves.

It can be frosty and misty, especially in the mornings. The days seem short because the sun rises later and sets earlier than in the other seasons. Pointillism

We are going to look at the art style of Pointillism to help us create our art work today.

Pointillism is a technique of painting where small dots of colour are applied in patterns to form an image.

Different coloured dots are placed next to each other to give This painting is called The Pine Tree at Saint Tropez and the illusion of was painted by Paul Signac. a new colour being used. GEORGES SEURAT, LE BEC PAUL DU HOC, GRANDCAMP, 1885 SIGNAC, PORTRAIT OF FÉLIX FÉNÉON, 1890.

CHARLES ANGRAND, THE HARVEST. Your task: Can you create a piece of artwork which depicts (shows) each of the 4 seasons?

You could use the pointillism techniques that we have just learnt about. Here is an example of using this technique to show an Autumn tree compared to a Summer tree.

You can use the end of a pencil or a small finger in some paint or draw small dots with coloured pencils or pens. The dots need to be close together. You can be as creative as you like with this artwork and you do not have to use the pointillism technique.

You might want to draw, paint, sculpt, or print. You can use any resources that you have available as long as you show each of the 4 seasons and how different they are to one another.

On the next slide there are two alternative ideas that you could try instead if you prefer. The choice is yours!

Please check the last slide to see how we would like you lay out your page if you are using paper. This example has been made on a computer. This could be something that you choose to do in a programme like Paint or on a drawing app on a tablet.

Think really carefully about the colours that you choose for each season.

You could extend your work on Andy Goldsworthy and create something in his style to show the 4 seasons if you can find suitable outdoor resources. Setting up your page. If you are working on paper, we would like you to separate your page into quarters. Remember, quarter means 4 equal parts.

There are 2 ways that you could split your page into quarters:

This way you can use a section of your page for each of the 4 seasons.