Art with Jacinta

The Year 3 and 4 students have been exploring Printmaking!

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.

Here are some photos of our collaborative mindfulness painting from Open Night. I hope you got the chance to have your photo taken in the Art Room Photo Booth and with our Kelsey Montague inspired mural. Thanks for visiting the Art Room!