Machu Picchu Watercolour Landscape

Miss Beavis visited the famous Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, high in the cloud forest of the Andes mountains. It is certainly a magical place and a bit of a mystery!   Did you know that Machu Picchu lay hidden from most of the world for hundreds of years?   This city of stone will…

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Landscape Desert Painting

Learning Intention: We Are Learning To (WALT): – Blend warm and cool colours together – Lighten and darken colours using white and black Success Criteria: What I’m Looking For (WILF): – Edges of colours blurred together – Smooth blending of brush strokes – One colour to show silhouettes Many artists use oil paints to create artworks….

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Cacti and Monument Valley

We created a pastel artwork based on the Saguaro Cactus and the rock buttes found in Monument Valley, Utah/Colorado, USA. We thought it would make a great setting for a narrative. We looked at lots of photos for inspiration first, practising our drawing skills. Photo courtesy of en.wikipedia.org Photo courtesy of en.wikipedia.org Photo courtesy of…

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Chalk Pastel Landscapes

For our last artwork in Term One, we created these ghost gum artworks using chalk pastels. Miss B (who loves using these for her artworks) showed us the different ways to smudge and blend the chalk pastels. They look great!

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Beach Landscape Drawing

Last term we started learning some new drawing techniques to create a beach landscape. As we have been learning about Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia and Thailand, we have wistfully been dreaming of hot beaches with palm trees nearer the equator! So this youtube video and accompanying ‘How to’ videos was our perfect holiday without a holiday…

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More superstar artworks!

Inspired by the Tyler’sArtShack Channel on Youtube, 5/6J attempted to recreate Tyler’s mountain artwork, following his video tutorial. Miss B even did an artwork too, so it was a learning curve all round! Wow, some fantastic blending occurred! It was so awesome to get all the little tips as we watched the tutorials. Here is…

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