3/4J are off to Scenic World in a few weeks! Along with riding the Scenic Railway and the Scenic Cableway, we will be walking along the Scenic Walkway seeing lots of Australia’s native flora and fauna. Let’s familiarise ourselves with some native plants before we leave! Golden Wattle is Australia’s national flower. The Golden…
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Our new novel this term “The Vanderbeekers of 141st St” is set in Harlem, New York City in a Brownstone building. We are studying different types of homes and houses, like the Brownstones of NYC. For art in Term 3, 2019, we are creating artworks of buildings and houses! Our first artwork is inspired…
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Our first artwork of a ship this term, coinciding with our ghost ships unit is a pirate ship! We will be creating a tall ship, with masts, sails and a hull. Maybe we will see some brigantines? Let’s see what’s involved! And let’s look at some pirate ship art for inspiration.
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Last Term with Mrs Smith we created a collage face in the style of Pablo Picasso. The bright paper really makes these stand out! Leave us a comment and let us know what you think.
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This term we are learning a to use a new medium in art – Chalk Pastels. Medium means the materials you use to create your artwork. Miss B loves using chalk pastels – check out her work! Our first work will be of an owl. Click here to see…
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3J spent their art lessons in Term 1 learning about Van Gogh and trying to recreate some of his most famous paintings. The first artwork we did was of a 3D pop up Van Gogh chair. Check out our gallery of work here!
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Some artworks and artists use PERSPECTIVE. A very common type of perspective is one point perspective. Its when the eye is drawn to a point on the horizon. Like this! The use of perspective lines can be seen in Van Gogh’s “Bedroom at Arles” painting. Objects closer to the front of the…
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Here is a painting that Vincent Van Gogh did of his chair in 1888. Vincent named this painting “Vincent’s Chair with his Pipe”. He painted it while he was living in Arles, in France. He was living with another artist called Paul Gauguin. He also painted his friend’s chair! We are going to make a…
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An artwork of the same subject can have many moods… depending on the colours and lights used. The mood can really assist stories, myths and legends. Lighthouses have featured in stories for centuries. They make great artworks. For example, check out these lighthouses! What kind of mood will your lighthouse show?
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Last term we completed 3 still life artworks. Our second one was a still life using chalk pastels to create different coloured glass bottles. We did them in really bright colours and use white chalk to make them look see through.They really pop against the black background! What do you think of our bottles?
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W.A.L.T – recognise the features of a still life artwork – arrange shapes using the foreground and background W.I.L.F I can name 4 things that are found in still life artworks I can recall the name of 3 artists who painted still lifes I can describe the shape of objects in still lifes I can accurately draw…
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Our final artwork for term 3 is to make as sculpture of some cacti or succulent plants in a pot. Here is a class in America who did a similar sculpture. We will be using two types of clay, both air drying. Our fist step will be to make the pots. We will be using the…
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Watercolour is a very popular medium for artists to use. There are so many techniques that you can use with watercolours to create different effects. Such as these shown below: There are different types of water colour, tube paint that you mix with water and dried powder that you mix with water. This week…
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At our 50th Anniversary Fete we had a special Art Show. All students from KSPS had an artwork on display and they were for sale! We made these awesome hot air balloon portraits. Great job 5/6J!
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