Eugene Von Guerard forest collage

Grade 5 and 6 students are embarking on an 'Australian Landscape through the Ages theme' this term. Beginning with studying the landscape art of Eugene Von Guerard they created these collages inspired by the following painting. They spent a lesson sketching at nearby reserve to help with ideas and their final construction of their collages.

                                 'Ferntree Gully in the Dandenong Ranges. 1857

 

Cheats landscape

Grade 3 and 4 students have worked tirelessly on a country landscape focusing on persepctive and colour. They took their inspiration from the painting 'Stone City' by Grant Wood (1930). It took them 6 weeks and they enjoyed every second of it. The results were fantastic!

 

 

Symbols in art

Grade 1 and 2 students created family portraits using symbols to represent what they do together and enjoy as a family. The pictures were a great discussion point about families and the use of symbols to represent a big story in a small picture.

Texture wall with Level 1

Students worked in pairs to create work of different textures using different materials for different effects. They were then instructed to think of words to describe the texture.

Recycled bottle Tawny Frogmouths

Every year we have a family of Tawny Frogmouths that come and nest at our school. To stick with the theme of recycled art the Grade 3 and 4 students made their own Tawny Frogmouths to celebrate their arrival for another year made entirely from recycled plastic bottles and recycled papers. I got the idea from the blog Craftberry Bush you can find her activity here.

Fierce or friendly cats

This idea came from a comment made by one of the Prep teachers that students showed a lack of vocabulary in relation to textures. I thought this would be a good theme for Term 3. We began looking at 'Gregorys Magic Line' and experimented with drawing different types of lines with different mediums. This then led into the activity 'Fierce or Friendly?'

Students studied the way that artists represent cats and how they show their temperament by the types of lines they use to draw them. They then completed an activity where they made a cat surprise where they had to draw clues in the form of lines and marks on the front of a folded piece of paper to show what kind of cat resided inside. They loved the fact that is was a secret and majority of students really grasped the concept and created some amazing lines to describe their cat inside.