A year of wonderful artworks created by my 340 students, from Foundation to Year 6, at Kerrimuir Primary School near Melbourne, Australia.
Saturday 28 May 2016
Prep & P/1C Colour Train
After listening to The Cat, the Mouse and the Runaway Train students painted their train engine using primary colour acrylic paint. They also painted a separate food dye wash background paper with white pastel resist lines. To finish their project students cut out their trains and glued these onto the background.
Labels:
acrylic paint,
colour,
fine motor skills,
literature,
painting,
year 1,
year prep
Saturday 21 May 2016
Years 5 & 6 Matchstick Tower with a Colour Theme
Prep & Prep/1C Colour Wheel Flower
Year 1 Near and Far Houses
Year 4 Table Design Construction Challenge
Year 2 String Runner Toy Construction
Saturday 14 May 2016
Saturday 7 May 2016
Year 2 Abstract Cubism Bird
The Cubism Bird process:
After a discussion about abstract/cubism painting, Year 2 students drew a cubism bird or animal with oil pastel and then painted it using the double-loading technique with white and either two warm or two cool colours, blending to see how many tints they could make on their bird. In week 2 they drew white pastel lines on a background paper and painted a warm or cool colour wash on top. The following week students cut out their bird and glued it onto their background, also adding straight lines on the bird's body. Now on show in the Main Building corridor.
Labels:
abstract,
acrylic paint,
Art Masters,
colour,
cubism,
double loading,
food dye wash,
painting,
Picasso,
tempera paint,
year 2
Friday 6 May 2016
Years 3 & 4 Autumn Leaves
The Autumn Leaves process:
Students drew leaves and painted these with tempera paint in warm colours, and the background in cool colours. They experimented by putting salt and rubbing alcohol on the wet paint to achieve interesting effects. Lastly, fine outlines were painted in acrylic.
Prep & Prep/1 C Fine Motor Skills: Multi Media Shapes Picture
First we discussed primary and secondary colours and looked at a short Colour Wheel video. Students outlined their shapes with oil pastel and painted these with primary colour acrylic. The following week, a secondary colour wash was added to the background. Lastly students outlined their shapes again with oil pastel. We discussed how the shapes were not painted perfectly, and that this is okay and that sometimes happens in art. This provided an easy introduction to abstract art and we looked at the book I Spy Two Eyes and compared abstract art to "real life" art.
Labels:
abstract,
acrylic paint,
colour,
fine motor skills,
food dye wash,
mixed media,
oil pastel,
shape,
year 1,
year prep
Year 5 & 6 Construction Design Challenge
Year 1 Fantastic Frogs
Years 1 & 2: Musical Inventions
Labels:
3D,
Artist Statement,
classroom theme,
construction,
sustainability,
years 1 and 2
Years 3 & 4 Newspaper Construction Challenge
Students loved this challenge...working with a partner what is the tallest free-standing tower you can build using 6 sheets of newspaper, masking tape and string?
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