Mixed Media Sunflowers


With Summer just around the corner, the Preps have been exploring sunflowers in their weekly Art lessons. We started off this Sunflower Unit by looking at some real sunflowers. Since last Term some students in Grade 3 have been growing some sunflowers from seeds, especially for the Preps! After we had a gallery walk around the art room to view our peers sunflower artworks we had a group discussion about how amazing it is that everyone's sunflowers look different, even though we were all sketching the same sunflowers. We admired, looked, smelled, touched and sketched these beautiful sunflowers. Some of the students were surprised at how HUGE the sunflowers were! We also studied Vincent Van Gogh's famous Sunflower pieces for inspiration for our own Sunflower artworks.


Van Gogh's Sunflowers





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