Textured animals with Foundation

The Foundation students love nothing more then going on a treasure hunt. We went on a treasure hunt for a very special treasure which was finding textures. They collected texture rubbings from inside and outside the classroom and then turned them into the animals. This was a great way to students to think about the language of texture.

 

 

Starry Night with Foundation

There is not many activities I do twice but this one I love and I do it every year. During Term Four every year I study Masterpieces Foundation (Prep) style. We have started with Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night. They get better every year.

Amazing Technicolour Art Element Jackets with Foundation

The Foundation students had a ball making these jackets in Term Three. It took them the whole term and they never go sick of it. On completion they even got to do a fashion parade at assembly!

Making these jackets they learnt about warm and cold colours, line, texture, and shape. They also learnt about Primary and Secondary colours. They used cutting, drawing and painting skills and learnt loads!

It was great fun.

More photos to come!

Prep masterpieces continued

I have studied masters in art a few times with Preps and they never cease to amaze me so I have made this a part of my program for a few years now. We study a famous artists work for one lesson looking at content, colour, things that they notice that are special etc then they create a picture in response using similar techniques. Our first work was Vincent Van Goghs 'Starry night'. We discussed his small brush strokes and swirly unrealistic patterns, his use of dark colours to depict night time etc and this is what they came up with!

We then studies work by Vassily Kandinsky

We also looked at the work by Katsushuka Hokusai 

'The Great Wave off Kangawa' 

and created these fabulous prints.