Visual Arts
Lauren Bell (M-T) and Beth Tyrrell (W-F)
Black Rock Primary School
It’s been a busy and creative few weeks in the Art Room, with students across all year levels exploring landscapes in a variety of imaginative and colourful ways.
Foundation
Our Foundation students created small world landscapes, drawing rolling hills and adding detailed buildings. They explored how to vary size and placement before bringing their scenes to life with watercolour. Students also began experimenting with watercolour, learning how to make colours lighter or darker by adding more or less water.
Year One
Year One students let their imaginations run wild as they designed magical fairy and goblin homes, transforming mushrooms and grottos into detailed outdoor scenes. They then explored folk art landscapes, adding patterned fields, houses and skies while learning how to show near and far in their artwork. Students have also been building their confidence with watercolour, experimenting with creating lighter and darker tones in their paintings.
Year Two
Year Two students combined creativity with colour theory. They created mythical creature landscapes, focusing on contrast and making their creatures stand out, before exploring warm and cool colour landscapes and how layering can create depth.
Year Three
Year Three students have been developing their drawing confidence through their rainbow animal artworks. They practised sketching before carefully painting repeated animal designs and adding fine details.
Year Four
Year Four students explored texture and technique through two exciting projects. They created stained glass landscapes using glue and chalk pastels, and began their Great Wave artworks inspired by Hokusai, focusing on blending colour and creating movement.
Year Five & Six
Our Year Five and Six students have been working on detailed cityscape artworks, inspired by artist John Behnke. They are exploring how to build depth through layers, combining painted backgrounds, intricate buildings and imaginative foreground elements.
Celebrating Neurodiversity Celebration Week
We’ve also been working on a very special whole school collaborative artwork in the Art Room for Neurodiversity Celebration Week, titled “Many Ways to Think, One Place to Belong.”
And honestly… there’s something pretty special about watching a piece like this come together beneath the hands of 443 young artists. Every mark, every colour, every idea — all part of something bigger.
It’s a beautiful reminder that there are many ways to think, create and belong.
Stay tuned next term — we can’t wait to share the final result.
