Year 4 Oil Pastel Paper Weaving Mat

Year Prep & Prep/1C Watercolour Fish

First we read part of a book on fish and discussed how fish breath. Next using oil pastel students learned via a guided lesson how to draw a simple fish. Lastly students used watercolour paint to bring their fish to life.

Year 2 Pattern Monsters

Year 2 students listened to the book, Where the Wild Things Are, and then drew their own monster. We discussed pattern and students added this feature to their drawings. Next they cut out their monster and glued it onto their oil pastel rubbing picture for the background.

Year 1 Rubbing Plate Picture using Oil Pastels

Year 6 Foam Rubbing Print

Years 3 & 4 Print Foam Rubbing Picture

Year 2 Rainbow Giraffe

First we read Drew Daywalt's The Day the Crayons Quit, which explores the idea of using unusual colours instead of realistic ones in artwork. Next, students drew a giraffe and painted the picture with fun and unusual colours!

Years 5 & 6 Tropical Toucans

Using oil pastel and tempera paint

Year 4 Chinese Dragons

Using oil pastel and watercolour paint

Year 3 Parrots

Using oil pastel and tempera paint

Year 4 No-brush Butterfly

Students used sponges only and texture tools to paint their butterfly on a background of food dye wash.

Year 3 No-brush 3D Butterfly

Students used sponges only and texture tools to paint their butterfly. Next they cut out the butterfly and mounted it on their food dye wash background for a 3D effect.

Year 2: Eric Carle-inspired Orange Elephant

First we read Eric Carle's The Artist who Painted a Blue Horse, based on a Franz Marc painting. This book discusses the concept of painting with unusual and unpredictable colours. Students painted a warm colour sheet, to later cut up for their elephant, and a cool colour background sheet. Students cut up the elephant pieces to create their own whimsical orange elephant!

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.

Year 1 Fantastic Frogs

The Fantastic Frog process: First we read a book together about the life-cycle of frogs. Students then followed a directed line drawing lesson using oil pastels. Lastly, they painted their picture with a food dye wash and named their frog. You can view some of these frogs this term in the library!

Term 2: Prep & Prep/1C Mixed Up Chameleons

This term our visual arts learning focus across all levels will be on painting and construction. In the first week of the term we read Eric Carle's Mixed Up Chameleon. In the story the chameleon wishes he was a different animal, but soon realises that it's best to be himself. Students drew wonderful chameleons using oil pastel and then painted it with watercolour paints.

Year 1 Oil Pastel Abstract Face Collage

Students drew a face with marker and coloured it with oil pastels in primary and secondary colours. Next they cut out 16 even pieces and glued these onto the page to create an abstract collage.

Prep & P/1C: Making Marks - Fine Motor Skills

In Week 2 Prep and P/1C grades had fun with oil pastels and experimented drawing a variety of marks using different parts of the pastel and a range of motions on the paper. They enjoyed naming the marks based on how each one looked, I.e. lightning, butterfly, snail, etc.