Birds in Nature

Students painted a wash over the background then used black ink pen to outline their birds perched on branches on another piece of paper.  They coloured the birds using oil pastels, cut them out, glued them on to the background paper and extended the branch across the page.

Underwater surrealist paintings

Various steps were taken to achieve the final result.  Firstly children watched the powerpoint Op Art Shading Blobs and created their own and cut it up.  They choose Antarctic sea creatures and drew these on a separate piece of paper and cut them out.  Children prepared the background of their black piece of  paper by carefully loading their brushes with white and light and dark blue acrylic paint.  After they painted the background they covered it with glad wrap until it was almost dry.  When they peeled off the glad wrap it left the lovely marks you see.  Finally the children combined these techniques to compose their final image.

Antarctic images painted on canvas

Years 5 and 6 students studied Antarctic animals and how they interact with their habitat.  These images were painted on canvas pages using acrylic paint.  To achieve the effect of water splashing the students used scrunched up glad wrap dipped in white, blue and black paint and dabbed onto the canvas.

A simple art lesson

Year 4 used black paper to cut out three tree trunks and glue them on their white paper.  They also cut out a few branches to glue on.  Using complimentary and contrasting colours each student choose strips of fabric to glue onto the trunks of the tree.  We looked at images off the internet of birds perched on branches and wire and the children drew their own birds using coloured pencils and oil pastels.

Mosaics

Year 6 created these mosaics after studying the various techniques used to create mosaics.  They choose their subject and collaborated in groups or worked individually to produce these stunning results.

Tessellations

We are studying transformations in maths and looking at translating shapes.  MC Escher is an obvious choice of artist to introduce the students to.  They used their mathematical knowledge and combined it with their artistic ability to produce these fantastic tessellations.  They started with a square and cut out two shapes that they translated see http://juliannakunstler.com/art1_tessellations.html#.U7DhfRav5Vw - a great explanation.  The students traced the template onto a piece of paper to make sure it tessellated then using a black ink pen drew in what they wanted.  I photocopied 16 each and the students then choose two variations of colour, coloured them in cut them out and placed them on their paper.