St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

For your Friday art lesson this week, we’re learning all about lines! We’ve a number of activities that you can try out at home, that don’t need too many materials. You can choose to do all of them or just a few depending on what inspires you. Please send us pictures of some of your work through your teacher on Dojo and we’ll feature some of them next week in our Virtual Gallery!

Line is one of the elements of Visual Arts – a line is basically a dot that has gone for a walk so for your warm up, we’d like you to take your pencil for a walk! You can colour it in afterwards if you want to, but first, just relax your hand and see where your pencil ends up.

There are lots of different types of lines. Here are a few:

Credit: https://menloparkart.wordpress.com/grade-1/

• Can you draw these types of lines?
• Choose three and create a picture using them. Would you like to make it more challenging? Ask someone else to choose three for you!

• To warm up, you took your pencil for a walk. It can be tricky to draw something in one go- choose an animal to draw without lifting your pencil! Here are some examples:

• Lots of artists are famous for their use of lines but Mondrian is particularly famous. You might have studied his work in class before but if you’d like a refresher, you can read about him here. Maybe you could create some artwork inspired by Mondrian’s work – he used primary col0urs (blue, red and yellow), straight lines and lots of white space.

Some work on Mondrian by one of our junior classes…

And by some of our seniors!

Finally, you could try this activity! It uses curved and straight lines to create an optical illusion. It works really well with different coloured markers, but it also looks great in black and white.

Here’s one of our past pupils with his amazing work a few years ago!

We’re looking forward to seeing all of your beautiful artwork!

Finally, here are a few directed drawing exercises (where instructions are given) to help you practise your drawing!

From the book ‘Draw Crazy Dinosaurs using numbers and letters’

Click on the book below to hear tonight’s story. I tried to pick a story that both everyone could enjoy tonight. Don’t forget to leave a comment so I know people are watching.

What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?

Click on the image below to view Paddy’s first P.E workout. Many thanks to his “little helper” too who is a Junior Infant. Please comment below about what you liked or didn’t like or what exercise you found the easiest and most difficult. It is really important that you continue to exercise while the school is off. If you want you can share your workout with your teacher on Class Dojo and we will post some of them on the blog. 

Click on the image below for a warn up video from Paddy.

I hope you enjoy tonight’s story. Ms. Whyte even fixed the cushions behind me in the video!! Please click on the photo below to hear the story and don’t forget to leave a comment.

When things go wrong, what can you always count on?

I hope you enjoy tonight’s story. Miss Whyte wasn’t happy with the mess of the cushions in the background! Don’t forget to leave a comment about what you like/didn’t like, your favourite page or picture and the reason why.

https://vimeo.com/400292064

How many letters are there in the English alphabet? Good luck everyone and don’t forget it is a riddle so you will need to explain your answer.

Well done to everyone who got yesterday’s riddle correct and for those of you who didn’t YOU CAN’T DIG HALF A HOLE!
Check out the comments I made in yesterday’s riddle.

To Listen to Mr. Vance’s bedtime story click on the image below. I hope you enjoy. Please write a comment by clicking the “replies” button below and leave a comment. What was your favourite part of the story and why? If people are watching this and leaving comments Mr. Vance will continue to read a new book each night. We miss you all!