Oooh, ahhh, grrr, mmmn, yeah!
St Edward’s Catholic Primary School, Years 4–6
Watercolour, pencil, wax crayon and acrylic on canvas board
Children from Years 4, 5 and 6 visited the Courtauld Gallery to look closely at Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. Back at school, we studied the work of the contemporary artist Rachel Jones to find our own moment of artistic inspiration.
We thought about the use of colour and mark-making and experimented with different materials and techniques to understand how we might create our own ‘sense of self’ through our artwork.
Inspired by Rachel Jones’s interest in teeth and mouths, we looked at our own mouth and simplified it to make it look, as Jones describes it, “beautiful, mysterious and complicated”.