Visual Arts News

Prep

Over the last two weeks, the prep students have continued to create artworks inspired by picture story books. Last week, the students listened to the Aboriginal Dreamtime Story: “The Rainbow Serpent”. They used maize building noodles to construct a sculpture of the rainbow serpent, focusing on the correct order of the rainbow (ROYGBIV). The students also drew their favourite part of the story. This week, the preps listened to “The Rainbow Fish” and began the first stage of a collage inspired by the story. They used crayon to draw sand, seaweed, shells and bubbles, then painted with watercolours on top to create an underwater background. The preps will continue this project in the following lesson.  

Grade 1&2

Grade one and two students have been learning about the colour wheel and how primary colours can be mixed to create secondary colours. In the first week, the students used watercolour paints to create a lion’s mane inspired by the colour wheel. They positioned their primary colours on the wheel/mane and mixed between them to get their secondary colours. The students then used paint slicks to add texture and pattern to their mane. This week, the grade ones and twos were given an outline of a lion’s face and were guided to draw all of the facial features, focusing on using shapes. They collaged the face and mane together to create their colour-wheel lion. Check out these amazing creations!

Grade 3&4

Over the last two weeks, the grade three and fours learnt about opals and compared two opal inspired artworks by different artists. In the first week, students used watercolour paints to create colourful backgrounds inspired by the colours found in opals. It was challenging not to overmix the colours, so that flecks of different colours could still be seen. In the following week, the grade threes and fours revised positive and negative space. Using white pastel, they created different organic shaped opals on their background. They then filled in the negative space with black acrylic paint to make the opals stand out. 

Grade 5&6

Grade five and six students have been learning about warm and cool colours and the feelings they can convey. Initially, they explored a series of “coastal cottage” artworks by UK artist Jessica Hogarth. Using these illustrations as a reference, the students drew two lines of cottages to create their own village. They then outlined one half of their village in warm colours and the other half in cool colours. In the following week, the students began to paint their work with watercolours, creating a warm coloured daytime/sunset scene on one half, and a cool coloured night-time scene on the other. These works are still in progress and will be continued this week. Here are some examples of their work so far:

Art Team