National Gallery

Year 6 have been comparing cityscapes and landscapes in art this half term. They will be using work from artists Herbert Mason and Paul Nash to create their own pieces using oil pastels and charcoal. At the National Gallery, the children looked at landscape paintings on different scales and discussed how the artist portrayed perspective. Some of the paintings studied and sketched include Claude Monet's Thames Below Westminster and Canaletto's Eton College view from across the Thames.