Take One Picture Art Week

For our art week, we have been exploring the painting, ‘An experiment on a bird in the air pump’ by Joseph Wright of Derby. Year Six spent some time looking at a range of different themes in the painting and 6LH were intrigued by what was in the jar. After some research, they discovered that it was thought to be part of a skull and they thought that it might be that of a bird from a previous experiment. They subsequently came up with the idea of creating their own replica bird skull from wire mesh and papier-mache . Here is what we’ve done so far!