Visual Arts 

🐦 Prep Visual Arts – Colourful Watercolour Birds!

Our Prep students spread their creative wings as they explored colour, shape and watercolour painting while creating their colourful bird artworks.

Students experimented with primary and secondary colours, choosing contrasting colours to create backgrounds that helped their birds stand out. They developed their painting skills by practising smooth brushstrokes and explored geometric shapes and repeated patterns within their bird designs.

It was wonderful to see our young artists experiment with colour, express their ideas and proudly share their colourful bird creations! 🎨

🎨 Year 1 Visual Arts – Exploring Primary & Secondary Colours!

Year 1 students became colour explorers as they learned about primary and secondary colours through painting. They identified the primary colours red, yellow and blue and experimented with mixing them to create orange, green and purple.

Students used these bright colours to create their own colourful pictures, developing their painting skills while exploring how different colours could be combined and used creatively. They enjoyed discovering what happened when colours were mixed and proudly shared their colourful artworks with their classmates.

It was wonderful to see Year 1 students experiment, create and build their confidence with colour! 🌈

🐠 Year 2 Visual Arts – Matisse Goldfish

Year 2 students explored the colourful world of French artist Henri Matisse as they created their own vibrant Goldfish paintings. Students experimented with warm and cool colours to paint their fish, fishbowls, water and tables, developing their brush control and painting techniques.

Students also created colourful and imaginative backgrounds, adding patterns, shapes and other details to make their artworks unique. They then used black paint to outline their shapes and details, creating strong contrast and helping their colourful paintings stand out.

It was fantastic to see students make creative choices with their backgrounds, patterns, colours and details, resulting in bold and expressive artworks inspired by Matisse.

🎨 Year 4 Visual Arts – Mona Lisa Comes to Life!

Year 4 students have been getting creative while exploring colour, contrast, line, pattern, shape, value and texture through their Mona Lisa artworks!

Students created vibrant, colourful backgrounds and then used chalk pastels to add clouds, bright field lines and interesting patterns. They experimented with different types and directions of lines create texture and detail, helping their Mona Lisa portraits really stand out against the background.

Students also developed their cutting, gluing and drawing skills as they assembled their artworks. To finish, they proudly shared their Mona Lisa creations and reflected on the different lines, patterns and details they had used.

It was wonderful to see the students' creativity, confidence and individuality shine through in their colourful artworks!

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Adele,