Visual Arts

Artist Study in Years Three and Four

The past few weeks, students in Years Three and Four have been inquiring into contemporary artist Sandra Silberzweig and her amazing portraits. They have inquired into the Visual Arts elements of line, shape, pattern and balance and have used their understandings to create portraits of their own. They have also inquired into using art as a tool for a person’s welfare. Did you know, for example, that Sandra Silberzweig has a condition called Synesthesia. 

Synesthesia is… “a harmless neurological trait, affecting 2-4% of people, where stimulation of one sense triggers involuntary experiences in another (e.g., hearing music as colours or tasting words).” 

Sandra can hear and taste colours!! It was just fascinating!!

The concept of ‘analogous colours’ was also introduced in these sessions. Analogous colours are colours that sit next to each other on the Colour Wheel.

Students also wrote their own Gallery Label with their name, title of their artwork and materials used.

It was such a difficult task selecting the artworks below as they all deserved to be displayed. Look out for these on display throughout the school, however, class artworks will be uploaded onto Seesaw for families of these artists to enjoy!!!

Nicki Myszka 

Visual Arts Teacher