Art with Jacinta

The Year 5 students have been working hard on the first of their Term 4 Landscape projects. For this project the students have been learning how to mix tints and shades of a colour, applying them in layers to create a landscape. 

The Year 3 and 4 students have been working with great maturity and focus during our Term 4 Portraits unit. A highlight of this unit has been our chalk pastel portraits. Using the soft chalk pastels and blending techniques the students created these Amedeo Modigliani inspired portraits. The students learnt how to use a grid format to ensure their portraits had the quirky elongated spacing like that of Modigliani. 

The Year 1 and 2 students have been such focused artists during our introduction to cartooning. This term the students will be learning lots of cool cartooning tips and tricks, starting with carictature self portraits inspired by cartoonist, James Rizzi. 

Hello and welcome back! I hope you are ready for an exciting and busy Term 4 in the Art Room. All the paints, brushes, pastels and pencils have been restocked and organised, all ready to be used for our Term 4 projects.  I'd love to hear if you got up to anything creative over the holidays.

The Year 6 students have been enjoying their Abstract Sculptures Unit. There were a few steps to this project, first the students had to plan their sculpture. Next they used wire and foil to create the initial abstract shape, then covered it with plaster strips to make it thicker, it also had to have weight distributed eventually to ensure it stood up on the wooden display stand. The final step was to add colour. 

The Year 3 and 4 students created these mass after studying real traditional African masks. The students were required to use at least one element from one of the traditional African masks, mixing it with ideas of their own to create a new mask.  The students also had to think about incorporating a symmetrical aspect into their mask design. The students used acrylic paint and they had the option to use extra materials such as collage paper, feathers and beads for details.