Art with Jacinta

The Year 3 artists have been learning about popular textile arts of Mexico. They have currently been working on circular weavings using a paper plate. They were required to design a colour scheme to paint their paper plate with - some students went with complementary colours, some went with analogous colours, some went with simple warm colours and some chose to do fine detailed patterns and some did abstract bold patterns.... ever paper plate design was different and they were all fantastic! The following week their paper plates were ready for weaving. The students marked their paper plates with 17 equal notches around the edge and then cut a 1 inch slit in each. After the students chose their yarn colours they were ready to begin weaving....  over - under - over - under - over under!  After the students had completed their first circular weaving they were taught a trickier circular weaving, this time they would weave in a circular motion starting from the inside and grow...

These paper weaving collages were created by the Year 1 and 2 artists. The students were required to select complementary colours (with reference to the colour wheel) for the weaving of their house or building. They could only create their picture using paper and collage techniques (no pencils or textas!) 

The Year 1 and 2 artists enjoyed experimenting with watercolour pencils to create their DREAM TREEHOUSE! The students enjoyed sharing and describing the features of their dream treehouse; some feature included; double story, slides, swings, fairylights, ladders, chimneys... the list goes on! 

The Preps have been learning all about the artist Claude Monet. We have enjoyed talking about his paintings in particular his waterlily series. The preps have been learning how to use proper art words to describe elements in Monet's paintings. Here they are making mini Monet inspired ponds using a variety of art mediums including; paint, oil pastels and paper collage.