Early Years Visual Arts
Year 4 Art Rotation
During our Year 4 Visual Art rotation, students viewed and responded to a local Aboriginal street artist who uses symbolism to express Aboriginal heritage. Students also viewed local street art located at our very own Plenty Valley restaurant precinct.
Students planned and created their own mural including a word that is of significance to them as well as images that express their identity.
Students learnt the skills of creating bubble / wild style writing and how to use coloured pencils to blend colours. We learnt about colour schemes like analogous (colours next to each other on the colour wheel), complementary (colours opposite on the wheel) and monochromatic (Different shades of the same colour). Students added ‘flourishes’ to the ends of their letters like; drips, flames, flowers and hearts. They also learnt vocabulary like ‘outline’ and ‘fill’. Students then presented their murals to their peers.
Artist: Robert Young
Location: Gertrude St, Melbourne
Elements of Aboriginal culture
Here is what some of our Year 4s had to say about the project:
We started out doing special guidelines to help us measure our word then we drew either ‘sausages’ or ‘rectangles’ to help us make our letters into bubble or wile style. After that we added flourishes and went over the lines in sharpie markers. We chose a colour scheme and then blended them to colour our words. Lastly we drew pictures around our word, the pictures are of other things that are important to us.
Angus
My favourite part about learning graffiti art was blending in with the pencils and drawing. I learnt you can blend more than 3 colours together. I used yellow and green which are analogous colours. Around the outside I drew my gymnastics logo as well as cat ears. I also drew musical notes and the school logo. I drew the school logo because it reminds me of good things, of my friends and all the year levels I have been through. It also reminds me of the teachers.
Krisha
