Art with Jacinta

The Prep students enjoyed learning about the artist, Yvonne Coomber and her beautiful Wildflower paintings. As a class we shared our thoughts, observations and feelings about Coomber's artworks. Some popular descriptive words included; fun, crazy, happy, colours, messy, party!  Yvonne Coomber 'Wildflowers'  To create our own Coomber inspired Wildflower artworks, we used the soft chalk pastels for the yellow sun, blue sky and green grass, next we used green oil pastels to draw on 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. During the lesson we learnt some new art words including; inspiration, mixed media, chalk pastel, smudge, stroke, dab, splatter. 

The Prep students created these mixed media Zany Zebra artworks after visiting real zebras on their zoo excursion earlier in the term! The students learnt that the art term 'mixed media' means to create an artwork incorporating more than one art material (or medium). For their Zany Zebra artworks the students used the following mediums; painting (with a focus on warm colours), drawing (an introduction to cartooning) and paper collage (for the grass trimming). The students even mounted their own artworks, complete with a decorative patterned frame.

These mixed media artworks were created by the Prep students. The students looked at the artist Henri Matisse and his famous goldfish paintings. They studied the artist Henri Matisse's famous goldfish paintings. As a class we discussed Matisse's use of the art elements of colour and pattern and how it was effective. The students used watercolour paints and the crayon resist technique for the background. They created their own unique table and gold fish bowl out of paper collage. The students worked with great focus and demonstrated precise cutting and glueing skills. 

The Prep artists created these Tigers in the Grass after seeking inspiration from real tigers on their Melbourne Zoo excursion. The students loved learning how to draw tiger portraits. 

These watercolour and crayon resist artworks were inspired by abstract artist, Jasper Johns. The Prep students loved mixing the primary colours. 

The Prep artists created these mixed media cherry blossom trees using a variety of techniques including collage, painting and printing. We spoke about how to use recycled items to create artwork. We used recycled pages of an old Encyclopaedia book for the collage background and the base of a  lemonade bottle to produce the flower prints. We also made our own pink paint using red and white!