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Prep 

This semester, Prep students have painted autumn trees and printed leaves, explored texture and mark making, printed shapes into characters, and collaged snowmen and snow scenes. 

Grade 1 & 2 

Students in grades 1 and 2 have painted, collaged, and constructed autumn trees, used the oil pastel/food dye resist technique to create a beanie, made a woollen pompom, and collaged a snowman from a bird's eye perspective.

Grade 3 & 4

Students in grades 3 and 4 constructed a ship as part of their unit on the First Fleet and Australian history. 

The students used warm colours to paint an ombre autumn leaf (ombre painting is the technique blending one colour seamlessly into the next, just like a sunset), and used cool colours to paint the background. 

Using a foam sheet and printing ink, students in grade 3 explored print making through drawing and printing a snowman, while grade 4 students designed a radial-symmetry printing. 

Steps:

1. transfer their design to printing foam block
2. practice printing on large white paper
3. do final printing onto previously painted concentric circle design

Grade 5 & 6

Students designed a muli-media artwork on a natural disaster of their choice. They strove to include the feeling of emotion within their piece and to convey a 'story'. These may have included such ideas as:

• before and after images of a bushfire and subsequent regrowth, which provide a feeling of hope for recovery
• a family quickly packing a car with a bush fire on its way, conveying a sense of panic and rush, and also of family connections
• people in a township working together to lay down sand bags against a rising river, which shows a feeling of connection through community spirit and shared purpose.

Similar to the grade 4 studetns, the grade 5 and 6 students explored patterns and symmetry through designing an artwork to be transferred onto a sheet of foam. They used printing ink and their foam block to create a radial-symmetry artwork. 

Warm regards, 

Julie Clarke 🎨