Tuesday 20th November

We went to the gallery(in Trafalgar square) to see the Men of the Docks, after we left school at 7:50. Because our topic was take one picture, we were looking at the painting by George Wesley Bellows. At the gallery, we also came to look at 3 other paintings  – another school came as well to the gallery

Out of all the paintings we looked at, my favorite was the fighting temeraire  ; it was painted by Turner. I like it because of the way the artist has blended the colors to create the sunset. My favorite colors of it was the orange, blue and yellowish-red I also like how the sun is setting as it is the end of the day, and how it was the last journey for the fighting temeraire before it will get shredded. It was painted with oil paint because back then they didn’t have tubes of paint like today.

The Men of the Docks was different in real life because I first thought the men were looking at something amazing, which could had been bright, instead it was a shady man in the shadows. It also bewildered me that there was a (textured) outline for the picture. George Bellows even painted it bigger than I thought it would be, as seen from the internet I thought it was small.

My favorite part of the trip to the National Gallery was when we looked at all the paintings because some of the paintings had interesting stories behind them. For example, the Fighting Temeraire  was sailing its last sail before it was going to be destroyed for the wood. I also liked when we looked at the gift shop because all the things there were very interesting; there were mini sketch pads, feather pens, bird ornaments and lots more.