Visual Arts Update
V I S U A L A R T S UPDATE
2024 is Art Show year. We are excited to showcase our students’ incredible creativity to our school and local community. For now can all families please save the following dates.
- Thursday 17th October 5pm School Community Evening - all students and parents to attend
- Sunday 20th October 10am - 12 pm Art Show Community Open Day
Here is an update on student’s learning across the school this week:
PREP
Me, My Family (oil pastels and dyes)
Students are using mirrors to observe facial features to create self-portraits. The Preps have also designed and painted their art folios.
YEAR ONE/ TWO
My Place (acrylic paints)
Through explicit instruction and guided practice, students have been exploring acrylic painting skills and techniques. We are focussing on the following techniques before we begin our ‘Australian landscape’ paintings.
- Freestyle lines (straight, zig-zag, curls, swirls, bumps)
- Commas
- Stars
- Dry brushing
- Dots
- Flat and round brushes/sponges
- Cleaning and drying your brush
YEAR THREE/ FOUR
Treasures from the past (still life observational drawing)
Students have explored sequential steps to still-life drawing. We have practiced continuous line drawing, x-ray vision drawing, multiple line drawing, and shading techniques. The Year Three Fours are excited to begin their ‘Treasures from the Past’ artwork next week.
YEAR FIVE / SIX
Australia Post and the past
Students have loved exploring the function, history, and features of stamps. We have identified themes in groups of stamps, and looked at stamp collecting as a hobby. This week, students were given a stamp to send a postcard to Mrs Moore. The Year Five and Sixes loved this activity as for many it was the first time they had used a stamp.
We will post these postcards to Mrs Moore five at a time so they will arrive a few at a time.
As always, a picture tells a thousand words so enjoy the photos of these smiling creative artists…
Marta Cummings
Art Teacher
marta.cummings@sjmalvern.catholic.edu.au