Visual Arts

Communicating with the Specialist Team

We look forward to partnering with you in 2021, and welcome your input:

Danielle Haines (Visual Arts)  Danielle.Haines@education.vic.gov.au 

An Overview of our Learning

Foundation students added some finishing touches to their Mother's Day presents by creating their own wrapping paper. They used foam to create a stamp design that could create a repeated pattern or design on the paper. 

This week foundation enjoyed art with both classes together and took advantage of the sunshine in between rainy days by creating a symmetrical nature design. We discussed symmetry and balance, making sure their design was the same on both sides. Students collected leaves, sticks and a variety of flowers and berries to add colour and variety. 

Last week year 1 and 2 students finished their painting inspired by Franz Marc's 'Blue Horse' and Eric Carle's book, 'The artist who painted a blue horse'. Listening carefully to the guided drawing instructions, students in year 1 drew an elephant on the back of their orange textured paper and carefully cut it out, gluing it together onto their painted backgrounds. Year 2 students listened to the guided drawing instructions to draw a horse. This was a challenging project and it was incredible to see the persistence and resilience of our students as they drew and then cut out this complex shape. 

Two weeks ago students also painted a piece of paper in preparation for this weeks activity, using coffee to make their paper look old. This week the year 2s began their hunt for pirate treasure as they drew islands and sea monsters that would block the path of explorers. I look forward to seeing what perils may appear on their maps as they continue the artwork. 

What a busy week we had completing our paper collage flowers. Students continued to design and cut their flowers and add details to resemble Margaret Preston's wood block prints. They also designed a vase or jug and decided on the composition of their pieces to fill the space and look aesthetically pleasing. 

This week students started their portfolio piece, painting with analogous colours, colours that are next to each other on the colour wheel, to paint an underwater ocean scene. They used tints and tones of these colours to create a gradient from light to dark and splattered paint carefully to create bubbles and debris.

Year 5 and 6 students have been continuing their study of the colour wheel by designing a template to make a radial colour wheel. This template is traced around 12 times to create the arms that will be painted with primary, secondary and tertiary colours which the students have been practicing mixing each week. Aside from colour mixing, students are also practicing good painting techniques and being responsible with tools and materials.