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abingdon.org.uk/prep 7 AbingdonPrep Art and CDT Middle Section Balloon Cards Y4 Ladybirds Junior Section Wooden Egg Pictures Year 6 Nail Art The boys took the concept of relief drawing into an animal collage. By layering and exaggerating the features, the animals pop out of the contrasting background. Newspaper Animals Mad March Hares Imaginary Dwellings In Art, Year 8 has been researching well known architects such as Frank Gehry, Jorn Utzon, Frank Lloyd Wright and Moshe Safdie. They then designed their own imaginary dwellings. The plans came flooding in including Minecraft builds and CAD plans (see right). Year 5 explored Albrecht Durer’s ‘Young Hare’ in Art. For our mixedmedia hares, we used cotton buds to blend our pencil, wet on wet techniques to apply watercolour and collaged bright flowers for a springtime effect.