Art with Jacinta

The Year 5 students were assigned the Creative Challenge to come up with their own artwork, incorporating their own ideas as well as seeking inspiration from Piet Mondrian's Composition' pieces. Students could use Mondrian's artwork to inspire themselves in any way they wished - some students focused on the primary colours, some played around with different shapes, others thought completely outside of the box!  In small groups students presented their artworks and shared how Mondrian inspired their new ideas. Students also had to discuss what art elements and design principles were most dominant in their artwork. I was so glad that the students enjoyed this Creative Challenge. Several students even asked if we could do it again in the future with another artist as our inspiration! Piet Mondrian 'Composition'

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 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 5 and 6 students have been experimenting with different drawing mediums, including soft pastels, charcoal, oil pastels and pencil. The papers the students experimented on included brown paper bag paper, white paper and recycled Encyclopedia pages. It was a little bit of a tricky concept to get our heads around at first - changing the drawing medium everytime you changed the paper-   but after some practice the students got the hang of it and loved it!

The Year 5 and 6 artists created these Great Wave inspired paintings.  They looked at the Japanese artist, Katsushika Hokusai’s ‘ The Great Wave off   Kanagawa’ woodblock print for inspiration. They identified, analysed and discussed the dominant art elements and principles evident in Hokusai’s famous artwork. The students produced two Great Wave paintings during this unit. They were required to keep one element the same from Hokusai’s Great Wave artwork and then add in an entirely new element or concept of their own. One artwork had be done in watercolour paint and the other in acrylic paint. After completing both paintings the students compared the similarities and differences of the two paint mediums.