Artist Voice
Artist Voice Summer 2025
- Where do you see art?
- Everywhere.
- On holiday.
- In clubs.
- On trips – cartoon drawings by people on the street.
- The church windows in RE.
- In houses.
- Why do people make art?
- For fun.
- For quiet time.
- To share ideas.
- To be inspired or being inspiring.
- To express themselves.
- To show the world is not a bad place.
- To bring joy to people.
- To show and create new styles.
- For mindfulness.
- As a hobby.
- Creating memories.
- Why do we have art lessons?
- To be good at art.
- To get creative.
- To have fun.
- To learn about artists.
- To link with our other learning e.g. English.
- To make creative minds.
- To improve our creativity.
- What do you learn in art?
- How to sketch.
- Artists names.
- Periods of time.
- Patterns.
- Different art styles.
- How we can be an artist in the future.
- How to draw portraits.
- How to paint.
- How to draw things.
- How to make new colours.
- How are art lessons different / the same as other lessons?
- Art lessons are fun.
- We can apply what we have learnt in other lessons in art and vice versa.
- We can don’t have to write lots in art.
- We can be messy!
- How do you improve in art / how know when you have made progress in art?
- We never have to worry; need to / can take our time.
- Mistakes can be turned into something else.
- We just keep trying, we need more time to practice.
- We can see it our drawings as they are getting better in our sketchbooks.
- We can create our own challenges because art gives us freedom.
- How do you feel in art lessons?
- Happy. Excited. Artistic. Clam. Free. Joyful. Amazing. Relaxed. Creative. Good – we can make mistakes and not worry. Confused if not sure how to draw something. Chaotic but I love that!
- What skills do you learn in art?
- How to use paints, water colour, pencils, oil pastels.
- How to sketch, colour, trace, shade.
- How to mix colours.
- How to draw a portrait.
- How to create a print.
- How much value you to you hold in your sketchbooks?
- We love them.
- We like looking at the stuff we did last time.
- We can make a mess in them.
- They have good paper - the drawing doesn’t go through.
- We like using our mini – sketchbooks in Newsround or when reading.
- What do you do if you are stuck in art?
- Ask a teacher or friend.
- Help myself.
- Use my sticky knowledge to think of how I did something before.
- Turn what I’ve done into something else.
- Draw doodles until something comes to me like lines and circles.
- What makes you feel most proud in art?
- Children all found a piece in their books to show.
- Art displayed on the wall.
- What do you need more of in art?
- More time in lessons.
- More time to doodle.
- More lessons on specifically on how to draw things.
- Making sure finial pieces are ‘freer’ – they should be inspired by what has been taught and provide an opportunity to apply skills. Every piece should be unique.
- Take mini-sketchbooks outside.
- Use mini-sketchbooks to reflect on Newsround.
- More double page spreads.
- General comments…
- I don’t just like it, I love it!
- Art is freedom.
- Art is happiness.
- We can be a cartoon artist as a career or an illustrator.
Artist Voice (Spring Term 24) | ||||||||||||||||||
1 | I enjoy art sessions in school. | I agree | I disagree | I sometimes agree and sometime disagree | ||||||||||||||
2 | What art have you been creating recently? | Painting | Drawing | Printing | Sculpture | Textiles | Collage | Other | ||||||||||
3 | Can you share some new things that you have learnt from your art project this term? | I have learnt to draw an elephant. I now know how to mix a grey colour with paint. I now know how to make a bowl with leaves. Different technique e.g. splatter painting, using straws and cocktail sticks to create different effect. We know our work does not have to be perfect - resilience a 'mistake' can always be made into a positive. We enjoyed drawing our elephants, colour mixing, Henna, rangoli patterns, freedom to decorate the elephants, shading, allotment drawings. The Lion Man and drawing Stone Age animals. | ||||||||||||||||
5 | After completing your recent art project, do you think your creative confidence has improved? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |||||||
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Artist Voice (Spring Term 23) | ||||||||||||||||||
1 | I enjoy art sessions in school. | I agree | I disagree | I sometimes agree and sometime disagree | ||||||||||||||
2 | What art have you been creating recently? | Painting | Drawing | Printing | Sculpture | Textiles | Collage | Other | ||||||||||
3 | Can you share some new things that you have learnt from your art project this term? | How to draw mammoths and cave paintings with different materials. Some of our favourite artists were Warhol, Fortin and Rowland. We have learnt to paint with string, toothbrushes and toothpicks. We also learnt to paint using the 'splatter' and 'drip' method. When you're sketching don't press on hard. We looked at Frida Khalo's paintings. We looked at our faces in a mirror. We have learnt to do the running stitch on felt fabric. We have learnt how to use polystyrene to make a print of our portrait. We have learnt how to build up different colours. | ||||||||||||||||
4 | Do you have any feedback regarding your progress in your recent art project? | We like it, it's fun and if I keep practising my skills I get better. We are enjoying using our sketchbooks and treating them as a 'work in progress' rather than a finished piece. We enjoyed working with charcoal and the abstract work reflecting moods. I enjoyed collage. I like sticking things to make a picture. I loved every single bit. I liked when we had to look in the mirror and do our face. Sketch books are a hit! When Miss Mace taught the first printing lesson in the art room. I enjoyed printing on my own in my sketch book. I enjoyed making the different patterns. Putting 2 different colours together to mix the colours when printing. | ||||||||||||||||
5 | After completing your recent art project, do you think your creative confidence has improved? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |||||||
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6 | Can you share any ways to improve your art lessons? | We liked working outside and using lots of materials. Sketchbooks could have more pages and possibly, be a little bigger. Continue to explore more to painting techniques. Copy some famous pictures. We would like to draw what we like/are interested in. Do art more often. Have a go at different things. Listen to teachers. Learning about the artists and recreating some of their work. | ||||||||||||||||
Artist Voice (Autumn Term 23) | |||||||||||||
1 | I enjoy art sessions in school. | I agree | I disagree | I sometimes agree and sometime disagree | |||||||||
2 | What art have you been creating recently? | Painting | Drawing | Printing | Sculpture | Textiles | Collage | Other | |||||
3 | Do you have any feedback regarding your progress in this terms art project? | We liked the review process of my art to help me improve. We enjoyed using pastels for abstract art as the bright colours brought our artwork to life. We learnt how to 'smudge' using charcoal We are seeing a progression of skills through our sketchbooks - we would like them to have more pages though! We enjoyed using our sketchbooks outside We like drawing We like to practise skills first then do our picture. Our art lessons are relaxing. We can remember new artists. We like doing dots like Yayoi on the paint easel. | |||||||||||
4 | What artists have you enjoyed studying this term? | Frida Kahlo. Gillian Ayres. Maya Matisse. Jackson Pollock. Yayoi Kusama. | |||||||||||
5 | After completing the 'An Artist Journey' activity displayed in the art room and your recent art project, how confident do you now feel about giving kind, specific and helpful critique about artwork? | Extremely Confident | Confident | Somewhat Confident | Neutral | Unconfident | |||||||
Artist Voice (Summer Term 22) | ||||||||||||
1 | I enjoy art sessions in school. | I agree | I disagree | I sometimes agree and sometime disagree | ||||||||
2 | What art have you been creating recently? | Painting | Drawing | Printing | Sculpture | Textiles | Collage | Other | ||||
3 | What do you use your sketchbooks for? | Our work, to make better. Sketching pictures. Ideas. Self-portraits. Rough sketches. To do art in. We have drawn apples and designed a chocolate bar. Drafting our artwork and showing progression before our finished piece. | ||||||||||
4 | Which artwork are you most proud of? | The cube, where we focused on drawing a cube step by step. Ancient Egypt God. Viking boats. Sketch of Pringle tube. Self-portrait. The Queens jubilee crown. Jubilee flag. Flower power T-Shirt. Minotaur. Sketching cubes, painting volcanoes using string and portraits at the start of the year. Castle models. Pastel chocolate monster. Under water city from the Quest book. Dinosaur collage. | ||||||||||
5 | Do you have any feedback from the washing line sketchbook activity? | Enjoyed playing with different materials. Enjoyed mixing different materials. Enjoyed being able to make own art. Enjoyed looking at our environment for inspiration and deciding on categorization. | ||||||||||
6 | Would you be interested in attending a sketchbook club next year? | Yes | No | Maybe | ||||||||
7 | What would you like to see more of in art? | Painting. Sculptures. Drawing. Free style drawing. How to draw videos. Drawing life and the environment. Clay. 3D drawings. Sketching. Pastels. Detailed colouring. Drawing outside. | ||||||||||
Artist Voice (Spring Term 22) | ||||||||||
1 | I enjoy art sessions in school. | I agree | I disagree | I sometimes agree and sometime disagree | ||||||
2 | What art have you been creating recently? | Painting | Drawing | Printing | Sculpture | Textiles | Collage | Other | ||
3 | What do you use your sketchbooks for? | Our work, to make better. Sketching pictures. Ideas. Self-portraits. Rough sketches. To do art in. We have drawn apples and designed a chocolate bar. Drafting our artwork and showing progression before our finished piece. | ||||||||
4 | Are there any artists you have learnt about recently? | Van Gogh. O’Keeffe. Kandinsky. Georges Seurat. | ||||||||
5 | Are you always successful in art? How do you know? | Yes, I improve by build skills. Teacher comments help us to know whether we have been successful. Sometimes. Because we are proud of what we have done. We are always successful because we try our best to achieve our potential. Yes because we've tried our best and put all the detail on. When my teachers or class friends tell us we've done a good job. | ||||||||
6 | Which artwork are you most proud of? | Cube drawing. All of them. Portraits and cylinders. Chunk, the chocolate monster and the sketch of an apple. Volcano sketches which will lead to string painting. Box sketches. Maya coil pots. Maya masks. Clay sculptures of penguins. Chunk pastel art. Robin Hood puppet. Colouring horns in RE. Blue faces. | ||||||||
7 | What would you like to see more of in art? | Painting and clay. Step by step drawings. Drawing fictional characters. Full body human. More 3D drawing. More painting and still life drawings. Pastel work. Textiles. Focusing on specific artists. More painting. Puppets. Creating own artwork. | ||||||||
