Archibald Unit 4 - The Manchibald Prize exhibition

To complete the Level 4 study of the Archibald Prize students chose their best portrait they had created over the term which was then displayed in the 'Manchibald Prize and Exhbition'. This allowed students to learn about displaying work, cropping, framing and hanging art work. The students formed an art committee to organise all aspects of the exhibition which was a great success.

The school community was asked to vote on their favourite artwork.

The winner of the 'Manchibald Prize won a special art pack.

And the winners are .....

Warm and cold bodies

The preps continued their study of colour by creating vibrant and dynamic drawings using the outlines of their own bodies and filling in their bodies using groups of warm and cold colours. They were encouraged to identify warm and cool colours and place them into groups and then complete the drawing with patterns. They had a ball!!

Archibald Prize Unit 3

The third activity for this unit was students completing a charcoal portrait of a call mate using white pencil for highlights and coloured oil pastels for the background. They were inspired by the video by Dillon.

They were encouraged to focus on shadows with an emphasis on shading.

Recycled stamps

Sticking with our theme of recycled art, students made stamps from styrofoam trays and bottle tops and used them to construct Mothers Day cards. Tutorial found here. It was an unexpected success and the students enjoyed being able to make something and use it straight away. They enjoyed this project alot.

Term colour study by Preps

We began this term by reading 'Mouse paint' by Ellen Stoll Walsh. Exploring and discussing primary colours and what colours we can create by mixing the primary colours together.

We then completed a mouse paint colour mixing activity.

We then watched the fanstic music video by Ok Go on Sesame Street.

The next lesson we listened and watched the beauiful song about colours by Kira Willey

and then we painted our first colour wheel...

We then discussed how colours can be used to express and communicate feelings and emotions in the way theyare used in art. We talking about which cikours woudl fit different emotional states. The students then completed three draings using the primary colours and were requested to draw the feeling that the primary colour could represent.

The students were then introduced to secondary colours through the colour wheel and how they can compliment primary colours. We watched a fantastic animation which explains this very well.

After learning about complimentary colours the students practised this new found knowledge by drawing a picture of their choice but by only using complimentry colours with the paper colour and the oil pastel that they chose to use

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To conclude this lesson I found this funny song about the colour green singing to red which summarised the whole thing nicely.

Collaborative shape mural

Continuing on with the shape theme Level 1 students created a collaborative shape mural inspried by the activity seen on  'Experiments in Art Education' blog seen here; http://experimentsinarteducation.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/collaborative-mural-painting.html

Shape collages

My term focus for Level 2 is shapes in conjunction with their classroom program. To begin I conducted some drawing lessons on how to draw 2D and 3D shapes.

The second activity for the unit was for students to create collage made only from shapes with the theme of the collage being their own choice.