Art with Jacinta

The Left Over Paint Project has been going on since the first week of Term 1. At the end of each Art class, if students had any leftover paint on their pallets (that wasn't worth saving/ or needed for other classes throughout the day) they were given the opportunity to paint it on this collaborative canvas. As grades came in for their Art lesson each week, they were all keen to see the development of the Left Over Paint Project. There were lots of great discussions occurring during the evolution of this project; in particular about the art elements of colour and texture. Students said it was very interesting (and fun!) seeing the project develop over the term. If you see any shimmery gold and silver paint on the canvas - that would be from the Grade 6 artists' Stuffing Monsters project. If you see lots of warm colours on the canvas (reds, yellows, oranges) this would be from the Grade 1/2 artists' Sunset Silhouette artworks. If you see lots of green tones, then that wou...

The Planning & Designing Stage... This stage The Painting Stage... The Sewing Stage... The Stuffing Stage... The Reflecting & Presenting Stage... 

Pop Up Sunflowers but the year 3 & 4 students - inspired by Van Gogh's Sunflower artworks. 

At the start of Term 1 the Year 5 artists were given the challenge of creating a cartoon style portrait of themselves. This was a fun open ended task for the students to experiment with the watercolour paints. Can you tell who these self portraits are of?

Warm coloured African animal sun set silhouette paintings by the Year 1 and 2 artists.  Our warm colour pallet Blending the colours Sketching our African animal silhouettes Painting Painting in the tree Painting in the details

The Grade 5 students created these Tom Oreb inspired owls using charcoal and coloured soft pastels. The students learnt charcoal shading and blending techniques to create impressive tones and textures in their artworks.  We studied the details of owls in photographs... Own sketch by Tom Oreb Owls by the OOPS artists