Art with Jacinta

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 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.

The Year 3 students created these watercolour landscape paintings after seeking inspiration from folk artists, Heather Galler and Karla Gerard. 

The Year 4 students created these mythical creatures during Art class over the term.  The students were inspired by the Tjanpi Desert Weavers who area group of women in a remote Indigenous community who create fibre artworks and sell them to make an income.  The students used newspaper, foil, wire and wool to create their Tjanpi inspired creatures. Here are a couple of photos of some of our creations.... Visit the Tjanpi Desert Weavers website to see more of the women incredible fibre artworks.....  https://tjanpi.com.au