Art

ART ROOM News   -   Term 3 Week 2

Welcome to Term 3 Art news 

 It is wonderful to start the term with an exited and enthusiastic group of young Artists at BPS. We are all on a journey of learning going into the future. Below is Yaling of Year Six, One point perspective drawing completed using Acrylic paint sticks.

Holidays and Gallery Happenings

 Holidays have been a welcome refresh and break for all and it has been fabulous to see some of the beautiful artworks that the children have been busy doing in the holidays.

Thanks for bringing in your masterpieces and sharing BPS Artists.

I have also enjoyed hearing about the adventures to the National Gallery of Victoria – NGV, Artvo, Lume Gallery/Exhibition Centre and various regional galleries. Wow our young Artists get about in the Artworld. 

I am always pleased to see the delight that children experience as they describe spreading their hands into the great semicircular water window at the NGV International. I wonder if Sir Roy Grounds Designer and Architect of the NGV, had an inkling of how much delight generations of children have experienced with the very start of their trip to the Gallery as they splash around in the falling sheet of water.

*Did you know that in Melbourne we have the largest stained-glass ceiling in the world?

It’s true, at the NGV International Gallery on St Kilda Road, Melbourne.

The Leonard French stained glass ceiling which is in The Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 

Here’s some facts:

• It measures 60.9 m in length, 15.24m in width and 13.72m in height. Ginormous!
• It took five years to build and is an amazingly strong construction.
• And guess what?  It is best viewed by lying on the ground and facing up to the ceiling/sky.!!

Along with the Water Window, Leonard French’s beautiful stained-glass window in the great hall, is another Gallery masterpiece and Melbourne treasure.

If you get an opportunity to visit any of Melbourne’s Marvelous galleries I would very much recommend going with the family. 

Lume Gallery - Melbourne Exhibition Centre

Term 3 Art

Incursion of Lemony Theatre – Shadow Show Puppets

This term we are looking forward to the Incursion of Lemony Theatre – Shadow Show Puppets. Master puppeteers who will take the children on a visual story journey through the use of medium of shadow puppets.

Cultural studies and Creative Arts -

The Mandarin - Chinese Program and the Visual Arts Program will be using this Incursion as a springboard to a unit of study in both subjects.This cross curricular unit will be an opportunity to make creative and cultural links between the traditional Chinese Art form of the stories and legends  told through Shadow show puppetry and the art form of creating and making simple shadow show puppets with moving parts.

Student Wellbeing.

The Incursion will also introduce themes of emotions and resilience, friendship and change. Crow kids is a powerful story about resilience, connection and the healing power of friendship, Crow Kid is presented through shadow puppetry ‘unplugged’. Projected onto a back screen with all the mechanicians revealed, audience members get to see how the effects and shadows are created, inspiring them to create their own stories in shadows.

Aztec Mask Designs

Year Sixes are about to commence an Aztec mask, they will be busy researching, designing, painting - acrylics and decorating their Aztec masks, then varnishing and embellishing with feathers, jewels, beads and ornamentation. 

What a fabulous group of young Artists and Designers we have in Year Six in 2023. 

This Term the Units we will be studying in Art include:

 *Foundation Fairy Tales – Old and new interpretations of much-loved stories working with mixed media including modelling and construction, cutting and collage, drawing and printmaking.

*Shadow Show Puppetry – Grades 3 to 6

 *Painting and Drawing

*Water Colour painting using Tempera and palette paints – Junior grades

*Abstract Art – What it is and how modern Artists work this way and inspire us too.

*Cool colours and cool climates – creating Winter masterpieces using mixed media.

*Collage Capers and *Threads and textiles *Colours and patterns, designing Winter wear, using a range of fabrics, threads, wools and textiles plus 2D materials, with drawing.

*Folio designs: Graphic styles, typography – Contemporary and Retro

*Perspective – One point drawing with a focus on foreground, middle and distance in mixed media.

*Papier Mache: Construction, modelling, painting and decorating – Grades 3 and 4

*Portraiture…’The Archibald’ Who and what is the Archibald Prize?

100 years of the Archibald prize in Australia.

Smocks

Well done to all the families who have supplied the children with a smock.

This term we have been and will be doing a lot of painting and messy Art, including Acrylics and Papier Mache. If you have not already supplied your child with a named Art smock, please send one along with your child or children in the next few weeks. Most watercolour paints don't stain but Acrylics can and do stain. So best to avoid uniform dramas and wear a smock.

Inspiring Words from some of the wonderful Artists we have studied recently:

* “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life”. Pablo Picasso

* ”Creativity takes Courage.” Henri Matisse

*”I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart. Vincent Van Gogh.

* “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Edgar Degas.

• Images from the recent exhibition 'Monet and Friends' Lume Gallery

Best wishes,

Mrs. D.