Ode to the Mona Lisa

Prep students have been studying work by Van Gogh, Pollock and now Da Vinci. I got this funny idea from Use your coloured pencils. The students loved it and the results are very funny.

Van Gogh inspired sculptures

Inspired by the painting '15 Sunflowers' by Vincent Van Gogh, the Prep students created a sunflower sculpture.

 

 

Van Gogh inspired Paintings

 

Inspired by the painting 'Starry Night' by Vincent Van Gogh the Prep students have been busy learning his painting techniques and doing their best to put them into practise. Here are some of the finished products.

Ikebana bookmarks

Grade 3 and 4's started their Asian art unit learning about Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging. They learnt about two styles of Ikebana; Moribana and Heika. They designed two flower arrangements from each style and then picked their favourite one to make a 2D version in a bookmark.

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.