YEAR 3 MAPPING

In the art room year 3 has been looking at the landscape paintings of Australian artists John Olsen and Fred Williams.  Students have been practising their blending techniques and creating sharp edges with acrylic paints.  Year 3 students cut out a part of a map of Sydney to glue onto art paper and then created fields of different colours around it.  Year 3 devised their own key for what they included on their maps.  A couple of items were mandatory ie A river, roads, houses, trees and a park.  Students decided how they wanted to represent the features of their map and used posca pens to portray this.  I think they have created wonderful contemporary images.

 

YEAR 1 FLOWERS AND INSECTS

Jan van Huysum was a Dutch still life specialist, one of the most distinguished of his day.  Unlike most other artists of his time, he insisted on painting from close studies of the world around him.  Year 1 drew inspiration from his lush paintings of flowers and foliage to create their own van Huysum inspired flowers using oil pastels and wash.  Their insects were drawn with black marker and painted with gouache.  They were very excited to be introduced for the first time to these vibrant paints.  Their insects were placed on and around their flowers just as real insects would be.  I think this is the largest group of the happiest insects I have ever seen and so they should be, look at the variety of stunning flowers they can land on!

 

 

 

 
  

KINDERGARTEN DOGS

In class Kindergarten are studying living things.  In the art room they are learning about Primary Colours and mixing Primary Colours to make Secondary Colours.  Kindergarten are also getting used to the art room and learning about how to use some of the resources to create their masterpieces.  They combined their learning with their artistic skills to create their friendly dogs.  

                                                                     Aren't they cute!

YEAR 2 INSECTS

Year 2 studied the extraordinary artwork of German biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel.  We looked at his images and the way they were displayed, noting the symmetry, repeating patterns, line, form and colour of the insects as well as their anatomy.  Year 2 drew on their artistic talents to create colourful backgrounds and then blew ink from a straw to create one side of their imaginary insect.  The paper was folded to produce a symmetrical insect that was embellished with posca and transparent wings.  Reading their reflections on the process and final product brought a smile to my face, they are so proud of what they have created and our display in the administration office has received much positive feedback.

Imagine one of these beautiful insects visiting your garden!

Students reflected on the process and added a little self-evaluation.  They included observational drawing of insects in their Visual Art Diaries.