Visual Arts
Foundation: Rosie’s Walk Rockin’ Chickens
After reading the picture story book Rosie’s Walk the students created a rockin’ chicken from a paper plate.
They used feathers at one end and a paper beak and comb at the other to keep their chicken balanced.
Previously students completed a printing task using a variety of circular objects based on the Indigenous artwork ‘Circle of Life’.
1/2s: construction challenge
This week 1/2 students have been constructing using paper rolled into cylinders. Students have used a variety of joining techniques to problem solve to make their cylinder creations stand up.
3/4s: Ancient Egypt cartouche and sharpie on foil
Students in 3/4 have completed a couple of smaller artworks based on the Melbourne Winter Masterpiece exhibition: Pharoah.
Students have used strips of wallpaper (similar texture to papyrus) and used hieroglyphs to write their name on a cartouche.
Students have also used a sharpie on foil technique to create shiny artworks, in response to artefacts such as the mask of Tutenkamen.
5/6s: Abstract transitions and Ancient Egypt canopic jars.
In week 9 students completed their abstract transitions artworks.
After viewing the artwork of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, students used a paint scraping technique as a base layer for their work.
Lots of mess ensued and some interesting colour transitions. After this work had dried, students used coloured pencil to colour in some of the shapes created by the intersecting lines and also used paint pens to add patterning detail.
Here are some of the fabulous results…
Students in 5/6 have now begun a construction task based on Egyptian canopic jars. Students viewed these artefacts and learnt about their purpose before designing their own.
This week they will either be adding a layer of tissue paper and PVA as a type of ‘shell’ or creating the base layer of newspaper and masking tape.
We will return to this task sometime during term 3 as we definitely won’t get them finished this week!
Some weird and wonderful creatures await…