Our Artist this term is Delita Martin, an American artist who is known for her printmaking and mixed-media art.
We started off by learning about her life and work. Delita Martin was born in Texas in 1972. She knew she wanted to be an artist when she was only five years old as she was exposed to art through her father’s work as a carpenter and painter. She studied drawing and printmaking at university in Texas and later taught Art at a university in Arkansas. Delita Martin uses various techniques including printmaking, painting and stitching which incorporate indigenous and modern art-making. She founded her own studio, Black Box Press, and is a founding member of Black Women of Print, a printmaking collective for Black women. Permanent collections of Delita Martin’s works are shown in many museums across the United States.
We looked closely at some of her Art work and identified the range of materials and techniques that Delita Martin had combined to create each one. Then we worked in our sketch books to record our knowledge and observations and also to begin to explore her style using sketching, watercolours and lino-printing.
Inspired by her work and using all of the Art skills we have been learning and practising this year, we have created our own mixed-media self portraits on canvases that were generously bought for us by the SVPA.
We are very proud of our finished artworks and now have a special piece of Art that we can treasure and keep to remind us of our time in Year 6. We hope you like our portraits as much as we do!
I loved it it was really fun!
This was very fun and good for my art skills.
This was so fun to make because it showed us how we can be creative in every way possible!
I was really impressed with my work.
I really like how my canvas came out, even though it was a little bit hard to make the drawing of me.
doing this was very fun I really enjoyed doing this.
it was really fun and 👾
This was so fun to do!We used many different types of medias in art!
It was so fun because we got to choose our own designs and clothes.
I really enjoied it and i learned many new things .
This activity was really fun. I loved how our pictures turned out exactly like us! Using mixed media and printmaking in our artwork made it more detailed. The fun part was when we had to trace our own body!
Wow😃! The portraits look 👀 amazing!!!!!! I wish I was there to do it.
I really enjoyed making the art piece. This artwork was rather complicated and had a million steps but the end result is phenomenal. It was a lot of fun! Thank you for such fun lessons over the past few weeks!
I enjoyed it, i learnt how to print.
I really enjoyed doing this artwork .It was a bit tricky but I had so much fun.
It was really fun making a portrait! I have never really made art with different styles. I would change the eyes a bit though I love the finished product.
It took lots of time to make but in the end, it was worth it.
This was so fun! I loved it! My favourite part was printing the prints on.
Mine looks so cool. I loved painting the canvas.
It was so fun to make these! I loved every part.
This activity helps you to think more about your personality and likes because this is about yourself. So what you put there, is what you see/want to see yourself as.
Everyone’s art is so amazing! It looks so fun. I wish I was there to do it.😀
I really liked this art project! I liked how we used mixed media for our art. I wish I could improve the teeth a bit but I’ll be fine! My favourite part was doing the collage.
I really enjoyed making the print and I think everyone did a great job at it .
I really enjoyed making this!
I can’t wait to go back on the website and see how the year fives turn out!
I know that they will turn out wonderful!🙂
I quite enjoyed doing this because it meant that we could explore how to draw yourself in larger version. I also loved painting the canvas because it was really satisfying painting the canvas in long, delicate strokes. Thank you to Miss Siswick for organizing this wonderful activity and thanks to the SVPA for buying all our canvases.
It was so fun making these paintings.
the most thing I loved was when I did my print on the canvas.
That was the best day ever!😁
I have learnt so many things on painting.