Dulwich Picture Gallery

 
Today we had another lovely day at Dulwich Picture Gallery. This afternoon we learned all about landscapes. We looked at some paintings of landscapes from 300 years ago and then some by Ben and Winifred Nicholson, which are much more modern. We learned about the difference between abstract and figurative paintings.

Source: Ben Nicholson, Dulwich Picture Gallery

Then we each took a polystyrene tile outside and stood on it on the gravel path- it created a great texture! Following that, we went into the studio and drew around our tile, then filled the rectangle with an abstract pattern of colours. Our teacher, Jo, explained the difference between hot and cold colours and asked us to pick one or the other to use for our abstract background. Can you tell which of these are hot colours and which are cold?

When our backgrounds were complete, we used biros to design abstract landscapes, using lots of lines on our tiles. We looked at some paintings of landscapes by David Hockney for inspiration.

Source: David Hockney, GeoffreyChatten.com

Then we started the fun and messy printing process. Firstly, we had to roll out the ink on the ink plate. Next, we had to roll the ink onto our polystyrene tile.

Then we placed our tile on top of our background image and used a printing press to push the image on the tile onto the background.

 

Here are some of the beautiful finished masterpieces!