Visual Arts News

Hello families and friends,

This week in Visual Arts, students across the school explored creativity through observation, imagination, colour, and design. Each year level focused on developing different artistic skills while building confidence with new materials and techniques.

Prep students explored colour and pattern while learning about the order of the rainbow (ROYGBIV). Inspired by Helen Millroy’s illustrations, they created vibrant backgrounds using lines, dots, and overlapping colours, experimenting with imaginative mark-making.

Year 1 students focused on art room expectations while completing a guided drawingof Toothless the dragon. They practised listening carefully to instructions, respecting shared resources and expressing their own interpretation through drawing.

Year 2 students created detailed owl artworks inspired by illustrator Phillip Bunting. They explored line, shape and texture, carefully adding crayon details and creating

colourful patterned backgrounds while keeping their owl as the focal point.

Year 3 students investigated positive and negative space. Using watercolours, they designed expressive sky backgrounds for their cityscapes, learning how background areas can support and enhance the main subject of an artwork.

Year 4 students practised observational drawing using oil pastels. By studying still life images, they explored value, identifying light and shadow and blending colours to create realistic form.

Year 5 continued developing collage artworks inspired by artists who use bold shapes and patterns. Students added details, textures and layered arrangements to create imaginative building scenes.

Year 6 students began constructing architectural collage designs inspired by MaryBlair. They explored colour schemes, shape and composition while planning and assembling building and tower forms.

It has been wonderful to see students experimenting, observing closely andexpressing their ideas with increasing confidence. We look forward to seeing these artworks continue to develop next week.