This week is Arts week. Our theme this year is ‘All things British’. In Rabbits we are learning all about different British artists. The first artist we have looked at is Howard Hodgkin. He is an abstract artist. He paints shapes in bright colours. His work is called ‘abstract’ because it shows feelings rather than being a painting of exactly how something looks. We thought about how using different colours can convey different meanings.

Our first task was to choose water colours that we thought were warm:

Then we had to chop our warm paintings up into different shapes:

Finally we had to stick our cut up pieces in our art books to make an abstract ‘cut up’  painting. We spend time looking at each other’s artwork to see what we could see, from rainforests to frazzles crisps!