YEAR 5 TONAL VALUE

Year 5 students are on fire this year!  We are studying Value, an important element of art.  The students create these simple yet powerful pieces by using line to section off their paper.  They used a variety of B pencils and paper stumps to create these beautiful works.  I love working with these students.

KINDERGARTEN LIVING THINGS

Kindergarten identified living things as things that breath and move.  They created these imaginary living things with paint and added to their bags by drawing other living things.

YEAR 1 RADIATING PATTERNS

Year 1 learnt about warm and cool colours.  They created these beautiful designs using warm or cool colours or a combination of both.  The students began in the middle of the page and added to their design by building upon the central point.

YEAR 5 COLOUR MATCHING ABSTRACT ARTWORKS

Continuing the theme of abstract painting for the older grades, year 5 have produced huge collaborative pieces of art.  Employing the techniques of colour matching, blending, reproduction and shading, students viewed works by contemporary artists.  Each student chose a small section of the painting and reproduced it on a larger scale.  The pieces were then randomly reassembled.  This is the first of the paintings.

YEAR 1 LINE

Year 1 practised their understanding of line, one of the important elements of art.  Students used a variety of line to create these creatures.

YEAR 6 ABSTRACT EXPERIMENTATION

"Form itself, even if completely abstract... has its own inner sound" - Wassily Kandinsky.  Year 6 have been experimenting with Yupo paper, a versatile, new paper.  It is important to create using emotion and abstraction too.  In this exercise students were free to experiment on their sheets of Yupo paper relinquishing a little bit of control to see where this would take them.  These are the beginnings of their experimentation.  Sometimes it is not easy to surrender some control but if you are brave some wonderful things can happen.  Year 6 have been brave.

Kindergarten Printmaking

Kindergarten students are learning about the three Primary colours Red, Yellow and Blue.  They are experimenting with paint and printmaking.  Students painted two primary colours on their background and produced a secondary colour.  After their background was dry students used repetition to print an interesting pattern.  Aren't they colourful and fun!