Art in year 6

In Art this term the year 6 pupils are focussing on South America. The artist Henry Rousseau was captivated with rain forests and the many different shades of green. He completed beautiful paintings of rain forests even though he had never actually visited South America itself. The children started by collecting a variety of leaves and grass from our school field and then back in class looked closely at the many different shades of green, even in one leaf there was as many as three different shades. They then went on to experiment with shading, by mixing watercolours.