Art

Welcome to Term 3 Art

 This Term we have launched straight into a selection of new creative units, often inspired by the Artworks of great painters, or through Illustration in books around the themes we are learning about. 

To begin the term here are some of the units we will be looking at:

Foundation students

*Painting and Drawing

Winter Wonderlands

*Wax resist drawing and water colour painting

*Collage Capers and *Threads and textiles *Colours and patterns, designing Winter wear, using a range of fabrics, threads, wools and textiles plus 2D materials with drawing

 Junior grades

*Water Colour painting using Tempera and palette paints, learning to created water colour washes, contrast with wax resist drawing to create a world of ice and snow scenes, snow crystals, icicles and all things chilly.

*Learning about cool colours, somber moods and Winter worlds in landscapes through the artworks of Artists Sisley, Walter Withers, Pissarro, Monet, Henry Gasser and Henrik Avercamp

*Cool colours and cool climates – creating Winter masterpieces using mixed media. 

*Abstract Art – What it is and how modern Artists work this way and inspire us too.

Grade 3 and 4

*Miro and Klee: Whimsical characters, combining portraiture and abstraction.

1. Using the Art elements of line, shape, form and colour students will explore layering of transparent paints, abstract face drawing and collage to produce a painted face in an abstract Klee style
2. Creating forms both 2D and 3D inspired by Miro's whimsical drawings, frequently used symbols and bold use of primary colours students will produce large and small works in Collage, card sculpture, inks and black line

Grades 5 and 6

The Guttenberg press - Printmaking

1. How printmaking and publishing on a mass scale has transformed the world. Studying the history of printmaking, methods and results.
2. Reverse printing - creating an 'initial decorative letter' printing plate and printing onto a variety of surfaces.
3. Hand colouring prints with water colours in the style of Margaret Preston

*Portraiture…

’The Archibald’ Who and what is the Archibald Prize?

100 plus years of the Archibald prize in Australia.

1. The history of portraiture from Egyptian times to today.
2. Recording peoples' likeness before photography: Miniatures, Silhouette Art and Portraits
3. People, Portraits and Funny Faces - The work of Giuseppe Arcimboldo
4. Proportions, distortions, expression and emotions in portraiture
5. Mona Lisa... Who was she, Why is the artwork so famous? Art Appreciation.
6. Miro and whimsical characters in drawing and semi abstraction.

Smocks

Well done to all the families who have supplied the children with a smock.

This term we have been and will be doing a lot of painting and messy Art, including Acrylics and varnishes. If you have not already supplied your child with a named Art smock, please send one along with your child or children in the next few weeks. Most water colour paints don't stain but Acrylics can and do stain. So best to avoid uniform dramas and wear a smock.

Inspiring Words from some of the wonderful Artists we will focus on this term:

1. "To create one's own world takes Courage" Georgia O'Keefe.
2. "I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for." Georgia O'Keefe.
3. "Colour is the place where our brain and the universe meet" Paul Klee.
4. "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." Pablo Picasso.