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Visual Arts

From the Visual Arts room.

Foundation

National Wattle Day is celebrated on September 1 each year, marking the official first day of spring in Australia and honoring the Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha) as the country's national floral emblem.

Students went outside to find a wattle tree in bloom and use grey lead pencils to make some sketches of the wattle, leaves and stems. Students also used photos of wattle as reference material for drawing and painting their wattle artwork.

Grade 1 and 2

Students went outside to find a wattle tree in bloom and use grey lead pencils and coloured wax crayons to make some sketches of the wattle, leaves and stems. Students were encouraged to zoom in and look the detail and zoom out to look at the whole plant.

Students used yellow, brown and green paint sticks to create their wattle plant and added blues and white for the background.

Grade 3 and 4

Continuing the theme of wattle, the students learnt how artists would paint and create work 'en plein air' meaning to create the artwork outside. Students looked closely at the wattle plants in the playground and created sketches using grey lead pencil and coloured wax crayon on white, yellow and green paper, exploring how different colours appear on different backgrounds. Following on from this, students choose a photo of a wattle tree with a missing part. Students needed to consider detail such as line and pattern and colour to continue to develop their drawing skills to complete the picture.

Grades 5 and 6

Students finished the term with a drawing a portrait of a classmate. Students used grey lead pencils on white paper. However, the twist was that the artist needed to use their non preferred hand to complete the drawing. When complete, the drawings were shared with the class. The next drawing was to draw their classmate's portrait upside down using their preferred hand.