Art

Term 2, Week 10

After our busy Term 1 completing a full range of Artworks, it was wonderful to start Term 2 with an excited and enthusiastic group of young Artists at BPS. This positive creativity has continued throughout the term. Hooray for BPS Artists!

Manga, Anime, and Kawaii Artwork

This term in Grades 5 to 6 we have been focusing on the work of modern Cartoon and Graphic Artists producing Graphic Novels, Film, and artwork. Students have focused on the drawing styles, exaggerated features, line, and colour work.

Year three and four have had a focus on Kawaii artwork which is creating characters from everyday items to make them animated and cute with oversized eyes and facial proportions

Picasso Portraits and Henri Matisse's Colour cutouts

Students have been studying the Artwork of famous Artists who changed the direction of modern Art: Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Modigliani, and Henri Mattisse.

Examples of these Artists Artwork, have inspired our young Artists to think about making portraits and artworks in Art that use distortion, different formats, strong lines, bold colours, and varied viewpoints. Students have learnt how to present their artwork in contrasting colours and collage to create visual impact.

Senior students have focused on the unique work of Pablo Picasso and his portraits. They have drawn profile and front view portraits of themselves or their friends and then transposed these into Picasso style of ‘Distorted perspectives and viewpoints” . Looking at other modern portrait artists for inspiration too, the terms of Realism, Abstraction, Semi Abstract and Semi Realism, Photo realism and Classical or Traditional Portraiture have been discussed, in lesson times.

Grade One and Two have had a particular focus on the work of Henri Mattise and his bold and colourful paper cutouts/collage and painting. They have looked at the terms related to shape of irregular and naturalistic shapes. As a contrast, the Geometric and Colourful work of Paul Klee has been explored where shapes are regular, geometric , architectural, and bold in designs in vibrant colours.

As a contrast to these two great colourists: Matisse and Klee, students have also learnt about work with Black and White alone, in contrast, in pattern work and in graphic designs.

Look out Design world, we have up and coming Graphic designers in our midst!

Along our journey of discovering more about famous artists we have learnt about the worlds that Artists lived in while they painted and created, how they gave to their communities, how they worked on a day to day basis in their studios and what these great creatives inspired them to continue to create, break new artistic boundaries and be at the forerunner of new styles in Art. It is exciting to see how enthusiastically our BPS students embrace learning about Artworks and Art styles from around the world.

In the Junior grades this Term the Units we have been studying in Art include the following:

The ART Elements

All levels of the school have been having a focus on the six Art Elements: Colour, Line, Shape, Texture, Form and Space. These elements occur in Art. They are the ‘Building Blocks’ of our Artwork and help us to understand how to create in a way that enables us to share and visualise our ideas.

Grade Three and Four students’ have extended their knowledge and drawing practice while working with focal points, negative and positive shapes, ,natural framing within an artwork, silhouettes and progressive colour washes used in artworks and Design.

Students have learnt about humour and being Comic in Art with drawing different combinations in cartoon form, drawing with a funny twist, an amusing story in visual form

Junior students have learnt about creating textured leaf rubbings, colour contrasts and 3D illusions created in two-dimensional artwork.

Junior students have focused on the season of Autumn, of colours, shapes, and textures. They have learnt Type and telling a story with Type styles and illustrations interwoven.

Painting and Drawing

In the Junior grades students have had A BIG learning focus on Colour – Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Complimentary colours, Tints, and shades using water-colours, acrylic paint sticks, pastels and pencils, collage, and mixed media on a range of different activities.

In Autumn we looked at Warm colours of yellows, oranges, reds, pinks, purples, and warm browns. We learnt about cool colours and the feelings and moods evoked by using the two groups of colours in our Artwork.

Our BPS Artists are colour experts!

Please enjoy a selection of Artworks created in the Old School Art room.