YEAR 4 SURREALIST IMPRESSIONS OF TREES

Contemporary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, sometimes known as the Princess of Polka Dots was part of the inspiration for Year 4 and their surrealist tree sculptures.  The students, earlier in the year had researched her pumpkin sculpture on Naoshima, Japan's island of art.  This time we looked at her installation entitled "Ascension of Polkadots on the Trees".  Using the concepts of Fire and Flood, these young artists painted the inside of their little bottles and using wire and mesh attached a tree branch.  Again using wire and mesh they sculpted tiny animals, insects, nests and eggs.  If you look closely you will see a beehive - how creative!

Some of the final pieces

 The roots of this tree              Look at the delicate
have been sculptured              bird's nest.
with artistic sensibility.

 

 
Students enjoying their art making.

 
  

 

BARCELONA BALCONIES

Stage 3 students are experimenting with variety of unconventional mediums including painting with coffee and tea.  These are the early stages of their stunning creations.  Their brief:  create a 3D balcony using images of balconies from Barcelona combined with their own creativity and imagination to draw and paint on cardboard.  Using wire and mesh construct a 3D balcony that supports itself.  I can't wait to post their finished work!

A Selection of the Finished Balconies

There is a basket, a pot plant, roses, geraniums and other flowers.  Antonio Gaudi is even represented.  Fantastic Work!

Some Close Up Shots

 

 

 

Year 1 Operation Art and Artist

Operation Art Workshops

Each year many students from Turramurra North attend the Operation Art Workshops which are held at the Armory at Homebush.  Students spend the day working with specialist art teachers, creating amazing works.  Here is one students' work.  He is in year 1 and a very talented artist.

Wow, what an amazing fish and it was drawn free-hand!
The execution of the proportion is excellent.

A print of a very smart green car and an Aboriginal with a spear chasing a kangaroo who looks to be hiding behind Uluru.

YEAR 3 ANIMAL ETCHINGS

Year 3 looked at perhaps the most famous animal print of all time, Albrecht Durers' Rhinoceros as well as a printmaker closer to home Australian master printmaker Rew Hanks. We discussed the patterning techniques, line and mark making and compositions of a selection of works.  The fabulous young artists of TNPS then drafted ideas in their Visual Diaries. When they were happy with the results they used copper, gold and silver coloured tin sheets and with etching tools, etched their own animal images onto the plates. The plates were painted with either black ink or black paint.  The gorgeous results speak for themselves!  

 Once dry the students burnished them with fine
steel wool and mounted them on black card.

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 Some closeup shots of the detail, design and composition.