Years 5 & 6 Wire & Bead Ornament

Students made textured stoneware clay beads last term and then painted them. They used these along with floral wire, gold beads and bells to create original ornaments.

Years 5 & 6 Airdry Clay Pots and Figures

Years 5 & 6 Cityscape Monoprint

Students first painted their background in a dye wash. The following week they painted their buildings on the top half of the paper and then folded it to achieve a print. It was a tricky process getting the paint at just the right consistency with the correct amount of water to achieve a print. Students persevered with wonderful results!

Years 5 & 6 Clipper Ships

Painted with card edges and brushes using tempera and acrylic paints

Years 5 & 6 Tropical Toucans

Using oil pastel and tempera paint

Years 5 & 6 Metallic Shape Collage inspired by Gustav Klimt

Students learned about Austrian painter Gustav Klimt who lived from 1862-1918. Klimt loved to create visual texture with patterns and lines, and also went through a golden phase using a lot of gold leaf in his paintings. Students used metallic paints and texture tools to paint a sheet which they then cut up into shapes and displayed as a collage on a black, lined background.

Years 5 & 6: Yukon Territory Watercolour Landscape Inpired by artist Ted Harrison

To complete their picture students painted fine lines with black acrylic paint.

Years 5 & 6 Matchstick Tower with a Colour Theme

Students chose a colour theme for their tower: either primary, secondary, warm, cool or complementary colours. These were built using coloured matchsticks and Supertac glue.

Years 5 & 6: Multicultural Art - Mexican Sugar Skulls with Marigolds

Year 5 and 6 students loved this project - drawing and construction based on Mexican traditions!

Year 5 & 6 Construction Design Challenge

Students worked in groups with a time limit using 15 of each recycled item - large cardboard tubes, cardboard boxes and wooden slats - to create whatever structure they could imagine and plan together! Rafts and castles were among the created structures.

Years 5 & 6: One-Liners

Many modern artists explored one-liners as a way of playing with line. Students had fun trying their hand at drawing simple pictures using one line, i.e. never lifting their pen from the page!

Welcome to KPS Visual Arts 2016

To assist in my learning all 340 student names at Kerrimuir Primary School, in the first week of term all grades decorated art room table name cards using a variety of drawing materials. This term our learning focus will be on drawing and collage. We're also off to a great start creating fabulous artworks! Pictured here are year 5 and 6 Picasso-inspired abstract cubism portraits created with water-soluble pastels.