Art Excursion – Year 4 – Indian Art

Last half term both Year 4 classes visited the National Portrait Gallery to learn about Indian Art.  Our teacher and guide Anita showed us portraits from India.  Later she showed both classes how paint was made in the past using a pestle and mortar. 

          

            

            

        

          

       

   

Recount by Sadaf

On Thursday 20th May 2010, we went to the National Portrait Gallery.  And we had so much fun!!  My favourite portrait was Sahib Jan , Banda, Bundelkhand. It’s a beautiful woman who is wearing a sari.  There was also another strong painting Ram Roo Phalke, Gwalior made in 1865.

Anita was a laday who worked in the National Portrait Gallery.  And she was our master painter.  She showed us how to make paint (malachite).

First we got tracing paper with holes and we coloured it with charcoal.  Then we coloured the frame.  I used malachite and gold, it looked beautiful!  I hope we get to go again and go to a different section.

Recount by Adil

We went to Hammersmith and got a train to the National Portrait Gallery, this took place on Thursday 20th May 2010.

We went to look at the Indian Portraits with Anita.  We looked at portraits before going to paint.  We found out that Hindu people wear red for their weddings or they wear white for a funeral.

We went to the paint room and learnt how paint is made.  Anita said never mix the colours.  We were touching, feeling and smelling.  She said let’s practice lines, we did that and then started painting.

My painting was a Hindu person called Ram Roa Phalke.  It was getting tricky and I got into it.  We had to do the dots with charcoal.   My dots did not come out properly but I painted it properly.

Recount by Solomon

We went to the National Portrait Gallery last week to learn about Indian paintings.

We first went to look at Indian paintings.  There was lots of pink, blue and orange in the paintings.  The kings were on elephants and they had swords or shields.  In the portait the Prince and the Kings has guards that had armour and swords.

Anita was our guide and our art teacher.  She taught us how to make paint.  You get some coloured gems and then smash it.  We got to do paintings ourselves. 

We didn’t finish our painting so we carried on at school. Anita our guide gave us paint boxes.  I thought the gallery was better the second time we went because we got to paint.

    

    

    

Arts Week

Year 4 worked really hard during Arts Week to draw portraits using lead pencils, colour pencils, charcoal and pastels.   Visit our gallery next term to see some of our amazing portraits.   Can you work out who the children have drawn in their portraits?

We also worked on our class cushion.   The girls and boys in the class sewed plaited plastic bags onto the cushion covers.