Wildflowers

The 2016 Preps are such super star artists! After only 2 lessons in the Art Room they have quickly learned the Norms and understand how to work safely and responsibly in the Art Room. They are growing in confidence with putting on their art smocks all by themselves, washing their hands and even helping with the cleaning up at the end of the lesson - keep up the great work Preps! The Preps worked very hard this week creating their first primary school masterpiece.... a Wildflower artwork.

The Preps enjoyed learning about the artist, Yvonne Coomber and her beautiful Wildflower paintings. As a class we shared our thoughts, observations and feelings about Yvonne's artworks. Some popular descriptive words included; fun, crazy, happy, colours, messy, party! 

To create our own Yvonne Coomber inspired Wildflower artworks, we used the soft chalk pastels for the yellow sun, blue sky and green grass, next we used a small/ skinny paintbrush to paint the blades of grass and flower stems, then finally (the messy and super fun part!) we used our pointer fingers as a paint brush to dab on the primary colour flowers. Some students chose to mix the colours and create secondary colour flowers (Wow!) 

During the lesson we learned some special art words including; inspiration, chalk pastel, smudge, stroke, dab, splatter. 

Our inspiration - Yvonne Coomber's Wildflowers

And here are some of the Preps Wildflower artworks in the making.....

Step 1 - smudging with the soft pastels 

Step 2 - stroking long smooth blades of grass and flower stems with green paint and small skinny paintbrushes

Step 3 - dabbing on the primary colour flowers with our 'pointer finger paintbrushes' The prep artists came up with some great patterns, some little artists kept their flowers neat and orderly, others filled the whole page!

What a full and very colourful drying rack!