Visual Arts

Reminder to Year 5/6:

Bring a white cotton t-shirt to tie dye this WEDNESDAY! 

If you don't have a shirt, you can bring in a pair of socks, a fabric shopping bag, or something else small (no jumpers or track pants). Whatever you bring must be cotton and must be white.

Write your name on the tag of your item and bring it to me on Wednesday morning. I need to soak everything in soda ash before you dye on Thursday. Soda ash is the fixative which makes the dye stick to the fabric (if your item isn't soaked in soda ash, then the dye will wash out.)

Box Totem Poles

The Year 5/6 box totem pole activity is ALMOST completed! Last week the students put the finishing touches onto their boxes, and I made the stands on the weekend.  This week a small group of students will curate the display. The boxes will be stacked on top of each other with a long pole going through the middle of each stack. There will be approximately  13 2-meter totem poles! I will be making an application for the finished display to go into Catholic Education Melbourne's art exhibition - so fingers crossed! 

Year 3/4

As the Year 3/4's clay dogs are very slooooowly drying out to be fired (possibly over the Christmas holidays), the students have started another dog-related project which I'm calling "Polaroid Pooches". This time the students are molding with salt dough - a mixture of flour and salt that is baked until hard in the oven. Last week the students molded the face of a dog, and after school I baked them. Now the dog faces are nice and hard and ready to be painted this week! After they are painted, we will mount each dog on a cardboard frame that looks like a Polaroid photo and the students can write their pooch a nickname. 

Year 1/2

Last week the students finished and mounted their x-ray printmaking activity. The students had to scratch away the white paper of their glittery x-ray print to reveal the glittering paper underneath. They then chose their 2 favorite prints and glued them to a piece of colored cover paper. These prints are ready to be taken home this week. 

Foundation

In Foundation, the students are now finished with their aboriginal-art-therapy collage activity. The students composed a picture of their favorite animal by taking a rubbing of different shapes. They cut out their animal and glued it to the paper they painted when listening to music made by Indigenous Australian musicians. They used cardboard rings to glue their animals to the background which gives an interesting 3D effect. I would like to keep some of the artworks to potentially put into Catholic Education Melbourne's art exhibition next year. 

The Foundation students are now working on another piece using their painted paper. Last week they sculpted a face from salt dough and drew a body to match. This week they will paint the face. The next step is to cut out the body, then glue it and the face to the background paper!