Art

ART     Term 4              2022

2022 has been a full and happy creative year in the BPS Art room.

It has been wonderful to spend the whole year teaching and working with the children in the Old School House Art room. Having ongoing access to the full range of Art materials and resources that we have available to use has been enriching for student Art learning and creativity.

I would like to congratulate all of our students at B.P.S. for their enthusiasm, originality and the beautiful Artwork created this year in the Art room. 

Well done! We are certainly a very creative cohort here at BPS.

ART Captains 2022 

A VERY BIG THANKYOU to RAAHI and DEEPA

This year we have been so fortunate to have Raahi and Deepa as our sensational Arts Captains.

Not only are these two wonderful Captains creative and terrific Artists themselves but they have shared their ideas and skills to help build a better Art program for their fellow students.

Dedicated with a capital D are Raahi and Deepa. Every day without fail, these two responsible Captains have been here in the Art room at the start of lunch time helping to clean up and set up, prepare materials, sort completed artwork, prepare examples and share ideas. If they have been unable to attend, they have arranged friends to stand in for them.  Wow….. a fantastic responsible attitude.

Our BPS Art program runs smoothly every day with the support of such dedicated and inspiring young Artists and Captains Raahi and Deepa. Thank you girls.

Raahi and Deepa have been responsible, kind and thoughtful and always full of initiative and good will towards their school mates. 

Running a busy Art room for over 420 students requires an enormous amount of effort, planning and preparation of materials and hands on resources. Having two such wonderful Captains to support the Art program has been fabulous.

I would like to thank Raahi and Deepa for their wonderful work this year, their kind and diligent approach to all that they have done and wish them well for their future years.

Term 4

Here is a snapshot of the Activities that the children have completed this term:

Foundation

*Collage, Drawing and painting activities

*Emotions, moods and colours in Portraiture and Art 

*Puppets: Hand puppets, Paper bag puppets

*Modelling and Construction

*Line, Colour, Pattern in 2 dimensional forms ‘Where the Wild things are’

*Christmas decorations and keepsakes

Grades One and Two

*Modelling and Construction with Clay-dough

*Painting and drawing – Wild things and Imaginary Landscapes

*Colour mixing and Colours for moods and feeling: Primary and Secondary Colours

*Portraits and Collaged characters 

*Christmas Activities

Grades Three and Four

*Weaving with coloured papers, threads and textiles

* Picasso, people, profiles and portraits - Unusual distortions and portraiture, acrylic paint sticks, Pastels, pencil drawing. Full colour and Black and white.

* Papier Mache: three-dimensional construction and modelling, including design and drawing, construction and multiple layers of paper Mache.

*Cityscape drawing, highlights, learning to create foreground, middle and distance

*Abstract Colour shape work

*Christmas activities

Grades Five and Six

*Weaving and sewing with wool, fabric and paper

*Picasso and Portraiture: Drawing with connections - linking positive aspects of our life with visual images while creating using art elements of line, colour, shapes, images and pattern

*Portraiture focus on Pablo Picasso’s fragmented portraits – Acrylic paint sticks, Black and White monotone drawings

*Grade 5 – Designing, constructing and joining to make Imaginary creatures- Papier Mache

*Grade 6 - Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' (I Pad photomontage unit and pastel self-portrait in 'The Squeal of Joy'.

*Designing and painting Treasure Chests and mini books – Personal project                                                                                                                      

*Christmas activities.

 At BPS we have a terrific Specialist program and Team of hard working and dedicated super Specialist Teachers.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the fabulous Specialist team of Miss Yi, Mrs Pickford, Mrs Shacklock, Trinity Parker and our wonderful Chaplain Carly for the valuable teaching, kindness, fun and good will that they bring to the students  every day.

With all good wishes to the BPS families for a safe and happy festive season and Summer holiday.

Best wishes,

Mrs D

Art Teacher

Coordinator of Specialist Programs 

Blackburn Primary School