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

Distorted faces

To start of the year and try to brighten up the room we have painted some distorted faces.
We started of by doing some quick sketches of our partners. 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 the portrait of the 'Weeping Woman'
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.

Room 23

Create Your Own

Room 14's Art

Making Paper

Look at the fun we had making paper today. We have made some great paper. These are only some of the photos we took.
We are going to write about the process and put it in our portfolios.

Aboriginal Art Examples