Room 14's Calendar Art

Room 14's Fabric Art

Room 14 had a great time completing this art project. It was a fantastic way to end a very busy term. We spent the bulk of the week doing this.
To start off with we experimented with a variety of ways of decorating fabric. We then experimented with stenciling onto paper. We spent a long time thinking about how we could improve our work before we printed onto fabric. It is harder than it looks!
To finish off our works of art some of us hand stitched out edges and some of us sewed around the edges using Francie’s sewing machine. Thanks Francie!
It was whacky hair day so we look a bit strange.

Fabric Art by Room 15

Room 15 had a fantastic last week of Term 3 - we spent the majority of the time doing ART! For this actvity we focused on stenciling on fabric. We started by dying our fabric then we made stencils from paper. VERY CAREFULLY, we stenciled our designs onto our fabric using paint. To finish it off we CAREFULLY hand-sewed around our edges.

Ancient Egyptian Wall Designs

As part of our studies this term we have viewed a lot of wall designs and have made our own. The wall designs showed what life was like in Ancient Egypt. You can see the fashion of the day and things people liked to do.  We think they look great!

Room1 Koru Patterns

We made these collage Koru patterns as part of our focus
on mixed media artwork.
We observed palm fronds carefully and tore up and
pasted magazine pages to recreate the patterns we saw.
We hope you like them!

August Landscapes

Room 10 are quickly becoming little artists.  

Today they sketched the landscapes from the beaches of Eastbourne, taking a close interest in the lines they saw that the hills made.  They then planned which areas would be lighter or darker and which hills they wanted to be bright and stand out.  Once back in the classroom, the little chiddlers transferred their lovely line onto equally lovely card and used different  painting techniques to create different colours and effects on their artworks.  

Here they are.

Siapo Patterns

Room 15 have been looking at the art of siapo from Samoa. We noticed how the designs have lines of symmetry and points of rotations.

WALT: to create a design that has at least 4 lines of symmetry and a point of rotation.

Room 5 Gerbera Painting

Recently for art we focused on developing our painting skills and this term we are experimenting with Mixed Media. Here are our finished painted gerbera artworks for you to respond to!

Room 14's Painted Portraits

Room 8 Art

For the last two weeks Room 8 have been learning the Scraffitto technique.
First we planned a 'hill or village scene' or a simple pattern using squares and triangles. We used pastel to make our scene or pattern nice and bright. Carefully we painted over each part with black paint, as we painted over each part we used a toothpick to scratch a pattern in the paint so the bright pastel colours came through.
It was very tricky! We hope you like them!!

Room 15's Pencil Sketches

Check out our completed pencil sketches! We have spend a long time on these pieces trying to perfect our tones and shades. We needed to remember to draw what we saw not what we think we saw.

What do you think?

Room 14's Pencil Drawings

Pencil Portraits in Room 14

We had a great time today working on our pencil portraits. They are coming out really well. We have been focussing on tone and line.
Keep a watch out on our blogs for the finished product.

Abstract Art - Verbs and Adverbs

In writing, Room 10 have been learning about VERBS and ADVERBS and how they can make our writing more interesting.


So, we created an ABSTRACT ARTWORK by flicking, hurling, throwing, dribbling, dripping paint (VERBS - what we did).  Some kids did this carefully, others did it ruthlessly, violently, artistically, slowly or quickly (ADVERBS - how we did it).


CHECK IT OUT!

We Love Painting - Room 3

Throughout this term we are going to do lots of painting. We have begun by mixing primary and secondary colours and experimenting to see what we colours result. We listened to a story called ' Biscuit Bear' and added black and white to create new shades and tints.

Today we completed our paintings, based on the theme of quarter acre dreaming by Lex Benson Cooper. I have really enjoyed learning all of the painting techniques. We have all seen the benefit of taking our time and using quality materials. everyone is super proud of their artworks, they light up the classroom and make you take a breath.

Room 12's Art Slide Show!

Check out our amazing Term 1 art!
We started of by doing some quick sketches of Mr Hull. It was funny because they were very quick. We also had to draw faces upside down, with our wrong hand and without looking.
We then looked at some art by Picasso and discussed some of his portraits.
From there we sketched out a distorted face that we were happy with.
One of the main objectives of the lesson was to learn how to hold a paintbrush and apply paint.
Here is a slide show of what we completed. Leave us a comment to tell us what you think.

Art Workshop

The Junior classes attended an art workshop in the hall with a 'real artist!' Her name was Jane Lloyd and she taught us some sketching techniques based upon Graham Braddock's drawings and paintings.

We learned how to sketch still life objects so that they were realistic sizes and in proportion. We also learned how to shade and add shadows. It was great fun and we can use these new skills for more drawings in class and at home.

Michael Smither's - Poet's Bridge

Poet's Bridge by Michael Smither

For art this week Room 15 studied the print by NZ artist Michael Smither called Poet's Bridge. The print is a collage of small prints that all include an aspect of the bridge which is situated in Pukekura Park, New Plymouth. The bridge has a long history and is actually named after a horse that won a race and earned a lot of money for the man who commissioned the bridge. For more information click here
We studied this print closely and noticed how Smither blended colours together to show shadow, light and reflection. We practiced blending colours from dark to light on strips of paper before we started our work. Each of us choose a portion of the print to paint each. Here's how they turned out.


Poet's Bridge by Room 15