Travels with Art Primary Class Clips

Are you going somewhere nice this weekend?

Perhaps you're off to see your rellies.

A trip to the seaside.

Or maybe you're even camping in the Outer Hebrides.

Why not turn your trip into a work of art.

I'm off to Paris for the day.

I've got my passport,

my sketch pad

and a change of undies...I think.

But the inspiration starts here.

Now, my idea is to sketch as many landmarks on my journey as possible.

I live in London, so Marble Arch is an excellent starting point.

But the thing is,

I've only got a day to do this,

so I can't spend too much time on detail.

In fact, I better get cracking.

Now, I'm on my way to the train station,

but THIS is too good not to sketch.

This is the London Eye, which stands an impressive 135 metres

above the River Thames.

And on this side of the river

there's great view of the Houses of Parliament,

although I'll just stick to drawing Big Ben

otherwise I'll miss my train!

CLOCK CHIMES

Blimey, is that the time? I better dash!

-Good morning, sir.

-Morning. Here.

-Your seat will be on the right on this coach.

-Thank you.

Sorry!

-HE SIGHS

-Phew!

Just made it.

Paris, here I come!

Ooh la la! Je suis here, en Paris!

Le French capital, non?

Oui!

And here we are at Paris's most famous landmark.

The Tour d'Eiffel.

The Eiffel Tower.

This is the Arc de Triomphe

and I'm telling you, It's very, very, busy!

The Sacre Coeur is the best-selling picture postcard

in Paris!

This is a bit of a fun reference for my picture -

it's the windmill at the Moulin Rouge.

The Moulin Rouge is one of the world's most famous cabaret clubs,

made famous by the film Moulin Rouge,

with Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor.

I've got all my sketches I made on my day trip

and I'm going to put them together to make a fictional cityscape.

Now, first of all I've got to split my page in half

and then work out my composition.

I'll start with the London end first.

The great thing about doing this

is you can put your buildings next to each other.

Cos Marble Arch certainly isn't behind The Wheel,

but in my picture it is!

Right, now I'm finished my London cityscape,

now I'm going to work on my Paris cityscape

simply by turning the picture round

and having Paris as the reflection of London.

Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower

look very good sitting opposite each other.

Now, here is an obvious one.

Marble Arch and Arc de Triomphe.

Don't worry if your landmarks are all different sizes - after all,

it is a fantasy cityscape. They can be as big or as small as you like.

London and Paris have quite recognisable landmarks,

but you could sketch anything you like,

as long as it reminds you of your day out and catches your eye.

I've come to the beautiful city of Bath for the day

to have a look around, maybe do some sketching.

But you know me - I don't like to do things in the normal pedestrian way.

I like to do things a little bit differently

and see things a little bit differently

and what could be more different

than looking at the world from the air?

You can see the graveyard and the church, there.

Everything's so peaceful and you go so slowly

that you can really take your time to investigate all the sights.

Right, I'm ready to do some sightseeing from the ground now,

and I have found the abbey, which looks beautiful there,

but on my map it's just a boring cross.

If only they put as much detail on maps

as I could see from the balloon.

If I sketch onto the map

rather than my sketchbook,

that way I'll be able to have a memory

of what the abbey actually looked like

as well as its location.

I'm going to start by just lightly sketching out

the shape of the abbey.

Add in this white paint

to blot out the bits of the map underneath

where it shows the road names - I don't want to see that -

where my abbey is.

Now for the best bit - colouring in!

Let's see what we've got.

This is looking really good.

I'm really happy with that!

Whilst I'm here,

I might as well sketch a few more things onto this map as well.

I love this sign.

Look at that!

That's worthy of adding on to my map, I think.

Let's find it. It's river there, bridge there.

Perfect. Right,

onwards!

Ha-ha!

What a stunning street of houses.

I would love to live here!

This is definitely going on my map.

look at this, it's filling up nicely.

This is where I am, the Royal Crescent,

and I'm sitting right in the middle

so I can take in the panorama of this building.

Phew!

I'm exhausted!

I love my map the way it is,

but I've had a really clever idea of a way to bring this to life.

Watch this.

I'm just popping my cutting mat underneath the map,

then using this very sharp knife,

I'm going to go round the outline of each of the things I've drawn -

you could use scissors if you were doing this,

but as I go round,

I'm just going to stop at the bottom of each thing -

You'll see why in a moment!

It's a bit fiddly.

I don't want to lop any bits off

having spent all this time drawing them.

There it is - my 3D map of Bath.

And the detail now looks a lot more like it did from the air.

Just put my bike up.

Oh, it looks so cool!

What a great way to look at a city

and what an arty way to remember my day out in Bath.

Why don't you have a go at making your own 3D map of where you live?

Barcelona is said to have the greatest collection

of art nouveau buildings of any European city.

And this is mainly thanks to the work of one man -

Antoni Gaudi.

Born in 1852, he spent almost all his career working in Barcelona.

One of the first things he designed was the Casa Vicens,

which he covered with multi-coloured tiles -

something he was to do throughout his life.

Decorating with tiles wasn't a new idea.

It had been introduced to Spain in the 8th century AD.

What Gaudi did was continue this tradition but add his own twist.

Even the chimneys didn't escape.

Gaudi formed a strong relationship

with a family of industrialists called Guell,

who commissioned him to build a number of things,

including a garden city.

The result was Parque Guell, one of his most colourful creations.

As a child, he loved to go for walks in the countryside

and in the mountains, taking a note of everything that he saw.

When he was older, he'd incorporate

the things he'd seen on these walks into his designs.

Columns look like trees.

Dragons instead of gates.

And sometimes his buildings almost look like living things themselves.

Like the Casa Mila,

which has the nickname La Pedrera, or "stone quarry".

I think it looks a bit like a cliff at a seaside

with bits of seaweed hanging off it.

Apparently, there's no straight walls in there.

And it's not just the front that looks unusual -

the roof's pretty spectacular too.

Today, this building is thought of as one of Gaudi's greatest contributions

to Barcelona's architecture.

However, when it was finished in 1910,

it was so different to anything that had ever been seen before

that it was criticised and ridiculed.

After finishing the Casa Mila,

Gaudi decided to dedicate himself

to the building of one thing and one thing only -

the Sagrada Familia.

Gaudi was a profoundly religious man

and was keen to help build what was to be Barcelona's new cathedral.

This part of the building is called the facade of the Nativity,

which he decorated with scenes from the Bible

along with all sorts of plants and animals.

Gaudi had great plans for the cathedral.

Sadly, he only ever saw a small part of his vision created,

because on the 7th June 1926

he was hit by a tram while crossing the road.

Fortunately, Gaudi left detailed plans for the cathedral,

and nearly 80 years later the work still goes on.

Here's a card you can make to remind you of your favourite places.

I'm going to do my favourite holiday destinations.

You need a chunk of card,

slightly bigger than a postcard, and two frames.

The way I made the frames is just by measuring the width of a ruler,

all the way round, cutting out the middles.

Put those aside for a second.

I'm going to start at the back. Now you need some pictures.

I've got this lovely beach for starters,

you could use holiday snaps

or bits out of magazines,

if you like. That's a nice beach scene there.

I'm going to pop it in the middle so it's not covered by the frame.

Then just start to work forward.

The next picture I've got is the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona,

which I love going to.

If I put it there it's going to hide the tree.

You've got to think about the composition.

And it needs a frame, so let's just...

stick it onto my frame with a bit of tape to hold it in place,

like so. Turn that back round.

Yes, that's working well.

As you get to the front, you need your pictures to be smaller

so they don't block out the background.

The last thing I've got is a New York taxi,

cos I love going to New York as well.

That's great, but it's a bit flat.

To bring it to life, make it 3D.

I'm going to move those frames out the way.

Start from the back with some concertinas.

All these are are some nice yellow card,

and they're the height of my postcard edge,

and again, four rulers' widths across.

You just do the old

fold it one way, fold it the other, and backwards

so you've got a concertina effect.

Then, either side, a bit of double-sided tape

and just stick it to the sides.

That's one, like that.

Do it on the other side. Get rid of the double-sided.

Two. And then I need to add my first picture,

which was the Sagrada. In the frame, stick it on.

You see, it springs to life.

If you add the cab on top of that it'll look 3D like that one, there.

Come to life, all my favourite holiday destinations.

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