Visual Arts
Contact Details: Allanah Sarafian - asarafian@srprestonwest.catholic.edu.au
I hope you're enjoying the art activities this term. Your feedback is always welcome.
Recent student work
Highlights from the past 2 weeks
Year 5/6-
Week 2: Toy Photography
Learning intention: Choose one or more of your toys to arrange in a setting, and create a close up photograph that tells a story.
Playful pandas don't notice the tiger hunting them
Harry and Ron crashing into the Whomping Willow
Harry and Voldemort dueling
Creepy Pennywise
A crash on the Golden Gate Bridge!
A super hero rescues the damsels
Playful pandas don't notice the tiger hunting them
Harry and Ron crashing into the Whomping Willow
Harry and Voldemort dueling
Creepy Pennywise
A crash on the Golden Gate Bridge!
A super hero rescues the damsels
Year 5/6-
Week 3: Recreate a Famous Painting as a Photo
Portrait of a Man - Ryan Halliwill
Portrait of Alberto Moravia - Renato Guttuso
Piet Mondrian - Composition...
The Astronomer by Johannes vermee
Starry Night - Vincent Van Gogh
Fridah Kahlo
Vincent Van Gogh - Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe
Francisco de Zurbaran -Saint Francis of Assisi according to Pope Nicholas V's Vision.
Francisco de Zurbarán
Still Life with Parrot and Fruit - Frida Kahlo
Doll - Lewis Hine
The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dali
Frida Kahlo, Paris, France letter to Nickolas Muray, New York, N.Y.
Whistler's Mother - James McNeill Whistler
Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Johannes Vermeer
Portrait of a Man - Ryan Halliwill
Portrait of Alberto Moravia - Renato Guttuso
Piet Mondrian - Composition...
The Astronomer by Johannes vermee
Starry Night - Vincent Van Gogh
Fridah Kahlo
Vincent Van Gogh - Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe
Francisco de Zurbaran -Saint Francis of Assisi according to Pope Nicholas V's Vision.
Francisco de Zurbarán
Still Life with Parrot and Fruit - Frida Kahlo
Doll - Lewis Hine
The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dali
Frida Kahlo, Paris, France letter to Nickolas Muray, New York, N.Y.
Whistler's Mother - James McNeill Whistler
Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Johannes Vermeer
Year 3/4-
Week 2: Look, no hands!
Learning intention: Recreate this painting from the Mouth and Foot Painting Artists’ website – but you’re going to draw it using only your feet!
Week 3: Olympic Sport Pictographs
Learning Intentention: Design your own pictograph based on the 2020 Olympic Games pictographs.
Year 1/2-
Week 2: Drawing like Michelangelo
Learning intention: Pretend you are Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Tape a piece of paper underneath a table and illustrate your favourite Bible story or biblical figure as if you were drawing on the ceiling.
The Road to Emmaus
The angel visits Mary
Noah's Ark
David and Goliath
Nativity story
Nativity story
Jesus on the cross
Jonah and the whale
Noah's Arc
The Road to Emmaus
The angel visits Mary
Noah's Ark
David and Goliath
Nativity story
Nativity story
Jesus on the cross
Jonah and the whale
Noah's Arc
Year 1/2-
Week 2: Found Object Portraits
Learning Intention: Using objects you've found at home, create a portrait of yourself or someone in your family inspired by Archimboldo Giuseppe.
Foundation
Week 2: Mixing primary colours
Learning intention: Explore mixing the primary colours together to create secondary colours.
Week 3: Make your own colour wheel
Learning Inention: Arrange colourful objects from around your home into a colour wheel. Start with the primary colours, then add the secondary colours, then the tertiary colours.
