Claude Monet’s Bridge over Water Lilies!

The Year 1’s have been looking at the works of Impressionist artists. These artists painted outside and had to do it very quickly because of how the things that they were painting would change in the weather. The students completed a See, Think, Wonder reflection on Monet’s, ‘Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies’. They were then given a very short amount of time to create their own reproduction of the artwork using wax crayons and water colour paints. The water colour paints blended together to give the artworks the feeling that they were moving and the wax crayon created a wax crayon resist so you can see line and shape of the main objects. The finished results are absolutely beautiful.

Great Barrier Reef in Oil Pastels!

The Year 6’s have created these gorgeous Great Barrier Reef pictures to promote its beauty with vibrant colours and numerous aquatic life. They viewed artwork by Annette James, a nature and wildlife artist from Cairns. They responded to the artwork by describing what they could see, what they thought was happening and what they wondered about the images. Using oil pastel techniques of overlaying and blending, they drew their own image. They painted edicol dye over the top, creating a crayon resist and sprinkled salt to create water texture.

Monochromatic Pot Plants!

The Year 5's have been practising mixing tones, tints and shades of a colour to paint these gorgeous pot plants. They used the art element, 'value' to create a monochromatic (all the colours of a single hue) vase and plant. Paint stroke direction added to the illusion of making their paintings seem more realistic. Some even added shades of a colour to their table, to give their painting the illusion of depth.

Kandinsky Abstract Art!

The Year 4's have been looking at symmetrical and asymmetrical designs. They created their own symmetrical composition using geometric shapes and then used the same shapes to create an asymmetrical one. They then looked at artworks by Wassily Kandinsky, a famous artist who was able to hear colours and see music (synaesthesia). They created their own Kandinsky inspired abstract artwork using chalk pastels. They did this by listening to a musical piece and assigning a colour and shape to the sounds they heard.