Art with Jacinta

The Year 1 and 2 students have enjoyed learning basic sewing skills. For their first sewing project the students had the choice to paint either a warm coloured or cool coloured paper plate and then learnt how to sew around the edge (a weaving technique). Next the students put their sewing skills to the test by sewing a heart on hessian material.

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!

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

The Year 1 and 2 artists created these delicious looking ice cream cones! The students enjoyed learning about value and how to make tints and shades of a colour. Can you guess what we used for the sprinkles?!?! (clue - you might have this with a curry! It's rice)