Visual Art

We have done lots of painting in Visual Art this week and we use art smocks to protect our clothing. If your child hasn't brought their art-smock to school yet, please assist them to bring it in this week. 

Foundation

Reading the book 'Commotion in the Ocean' inspired our Foundation students to create their own ocean artwork. They brainstormed about creatures that live in the ocean, used wax crayons to draw the creatures and a blue food dye rinse to complete their wax resist painting.

Grade 1 and Grade 2

Students in Grades 1 and 2 have expanded their knowledge of primary colours to secondary colours. They mixed paint in primary colours to make their own secondary colours and painted a colour wheel. The students found it was easy to make green and orange but a lot harder to make purple.

Grade 3 and Grade 4

Students in Grades 3 and 4 are working on a sgraffito artwork. Sgraffito comes from the Italian word graffiare ("to scratch") and is a form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting colour. After applying two layers of wax crayons in contrasting colours, students will use tools to scratch patterns and symbols in the top layer. 

Grade 5 and Grade 6

Last week students in Grades 5 and 6 commenced working on a monochromatic cube artwork.  They drew a cube and started painting each surface in their drawing in a different shade or tint of their house colour. Students are creating different shades by adding white and different tints by adding black to the original hue.