Forest School Photo Art

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To follow up the Environmental Art Day; Year 6 have been exploring abstract art as part of their Forest School lessons to support the Cornerstones Gallery project.

We talked about the way they could begin to look for shapes and form in natural objects and zoom in to select a small area of texture. We also began to consider colour as a way to convey the feeling of warmth or coolness in photos.

We are lucky enough to have an iPod per child for this session. Most children were already familiar with the camera function so we also introduced them to Snapseed, a free photo editing app, to allow them to experiment with editing their photo.

During the session most children asked questions to develop their skills but what was especially pleasing were the children who went and looked at things in different ways for themselves.

One found some reflections in bowls of water which had been left out to freeze by another class, others began to look up into the trees for the shapes in the interwoven branches.

During this time the weather was usually overcast, dull with a little snow on the ground but some children still found colour, or an odd patch of blue sky when it appeared and even a frozen footprint!