Visual Arts

Call-Out for sauce bottle tops

The Art Room needs your sauce bottle tops with a nozzle - like the ones from a tomato sauce bottle. I discovered that these caps fit perfectly onto our 2L paint bottles and make it  much easier to dispense paint in the classroom. Please save your sauce bottle 

caps and bring them into the Art Room!

Creative Arts Exhibition

The Creative Arts Exhibition is open from Monday 15th March. We have artworks on display from the entire 5/6 cohort from 2020 and 16 Foundation students from 2020.

If any parents of students featured in the gallery have not received my email about visiting the gallery, please contact me. 

Exhibition address

Catholic Leadership Centre: 576 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne VIC 3002

Exhibition opening times

Monday 15 – Friday 19 March from 9am – 4pm with extended hours on Thursday 18th from 9am – 7pm

Saturday 20 March 12pm – 4pm

Exhibition booking system

In order to attend the exhibition schools and families are required to make prior bookings. Nobody will be allowed access to the gallery without a prior booking. 

Free bookings can be made at https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=724285& 

Foundation

The Foundation students have been learning about line and shape, while using some new drawing skills. We have done an activity a bit like the old TV show - Mr. Squiggle. The children use a random object (like a stapler, peg or yogurt pot) and trace around it to get a shape. They then add lines and shapes to change their basic shape outline into an interesting picture. 

Year 1/2

Our Year 1/2 students have now completed their response to van Gogh's Sunflowers. I think you will agree that the outcomes are just beautiful. The students took a deep dive into different textures. They learned new adjectives to describe textures and used new ways of adding texture to their collage. Next, the students will present their art work to their peers using this new vocabulary. 

Year 3/4

The Year 3/4s have almost finished their circus figures in motion. They have completed the Modroc bandages and now begun painting their figures in circus costumes. Next, they will add some fabric clothes and glue their figure to a wooden stand.

Year 5/6

The Year 5/6 students have now all completed their clay pinch pots. The pot are drying out slowly so they do not crack. Each piece needs to dry out completely before being taken to the kiln. If there is any moisture inside they clay, the pots will explode when they are fired. I estimate they will need another week or 2 before every item is properly dried and ready for the kiln.