Artist study

This week we have been studying a famous artist called Mark Rothko. He was a Russian painter who lived most of his life in America. He was born in 1903 and died in 1970.

We started by looking at some of his painting on the website http://www.markrothko.org and talking the colours, shapes and moods of the pictures. 

We then used pencil crayons to investigate which colours we thought looked good together.

We then used paint to create a painting in the style of Mark Rothko by painting different sized blocks of colour onto our paper.

Here are some pictures of us creating our masterpieces. They will be on display in the classroom shortly.