Marland Hill Community Primary School
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Year 1 Group Focus
Linked to our topic, in art we are looking at the work of Alan Bean. Alan Bean was a NASA astronaut who walked on the moon on Apollo 12. After 18 years he resigned as an astronaut to paint pictures of the remarkable worlds and sights he had seen. On each of his pieces of work, he uses moon dust that he brought back from the moon and always leaves an imprint of his moon boot. We have been using a range of materials including metallic paint, flour, coloured sand, glitter and tin foil to create our own space themed backdrop, inspired by the work of Alan Bean. We also left an imprint of our shoes, using wellies and paint. Over the next few weeks we will be designing and making our own clay alien to sit in front of our backdrops.
