Art

 This term the Grade 1 and 2 students were introduced to contemporary Australian artist Pete Cromer who is known for his signature bursts of colour and texture on his collages, paintings and sculptures. Inspired by his work the students designed their own bird, focusing on Australian birds like kookaburras, galahs and budgerigars.

First, they created a lot of painted papers to be used in the collage using a variety of different paint techniques such as stamping, scraping and blending. The backgrounds were painted with rollers in pastel tones to complement the bright colours of the birds. 

The painted papers were used to create the head of their birds, and the geometric and irregular shapes were carefully balanced to create these fun and colourful artworks.  Here are some students creating their collages and some of the beautiful finished bird artworks:

 Tedda and Rocky 2S

 Lachlan and Ryker 2S

 Red Table 2S

 Tommy 1AJ 

 Chloe 2M

 Harry 2M  

 Ava 2S

 Hailey 2M  

 Andrea 1R

 Holly 1G  

  Jack W 2N

Moses from 3M proudly came to show me his painting of the main building of I.P.S, fantastic use of recycling by painting on cardboard and a very realistic depiction of our school, wonderful work Moses.