Blended Oil Pastel Blooms!

The Year 6 classes have been exploring different techniques for blending oil pastels. They tried 6 different blending techniques; colour theory mixing, light colour blending, blending with a finger or tissue or using water or baby oil to blend. Their goal for this art exploration was to find techniques they preferred, identify how different techniques could create certain effects and ones they would avoid. They quickly found out that blending with water doesn’t actually work.

 When using the oil pastels, they identified how to hold their oil pastel to have more control and thick, vibrant colours. They also used vertical stroke directions so the petals looked like they were growing out from a centre point. The blended oil pastel strips were placed together and cut into a petal shape all at the same time. This is a great trick to create multiple shapes that are exactly the same. 

These were arranged onto black card that had been folded and the points trimmed to create interesting shape once opened back up and placed onto a coloured background. This turned their exploration and experimentation of oil pastel blending into a beautiful piece of art work in itself.

 Loving Lunchtime Art!

Come in Fridays at lunchtime to get creative.

Check out what kind of activities you can do on the board outside the art room Friday mornings.

We can't wait to see you there!

 

Blended Butterflies!

The Year 3 classes have been exploring blending techniques when using oil pastels and water colour paints. They imagined they were outside looking for butterflies. They chose coloured paper to represent their background of blue (sky) or green(ground/plant). 

Using multiple colours or green, yellow and blue they drew leaf shapes. The lightest colour was used to blend the colours together. This became the middle ground with some of their leaves overlapping.

 They explored the effects of water colour paints and how it flowed and ran over the paper with less control compared to acrylic paint. They also held their paint brushes at the end, adding to the ‘less control’ effects. 

They created butterflies out of the blended water colour papers they had made by folding the paper in half and drawing half a butterfly body and one wing starting from the folded side. This was cut out carefully keeping it folded so when it was opened up it made one whole butterfly. They added symmetrical line and shape patterns to each of the wings. After folding the wings up, they glued the centre body part and arranged them on their backgrounds. 

Their butterflies are now in the foreground, overlapping the leaves in the middle ground and the coloured card representing the background.

 

Welcome Back to the Art Room for Term 2! 

This term we fondly say goodbye to Ms Liz Agar. While she will be missed in the art room, you may see her around the school still teaching in Rm 22 on Fridays or when teachers are away. 

We welcome the talented Mrs Alison Braydon to our art room! Mrs Braydon will be teaching the Years 1, 2 and 4 on Mondays, Tuesdays and part of Wednesday. She is a welcome addition to the art room and has already begun creating some amazing masterpieces inspired by famous artists such as, Van Gogh, Rousseau and Picasso. We are excited to have her join us and look forward to seeing the gorgeous artworks she creates with our little artists. 

Lunchtime art will continue to run on Friday lunchtimes. I have been so proud of how well the students share the space and equipment. We are getting quite a few students join us, which is wonderful to see. Be sure to check the board outside the art room each Friday to see what you can create on that day. 

We very much appreciate donations to the art room and thank all those who have already bought things in for us to use. We are asking for cereal boxes (these can be flattened) of any size - the larger the better. These are great as an alternative canvas for us to create our art on. 

 

Harmony Day Mindful Hearts

Harmony Day is a day where we celebrate our cultural diversity here in Australia. The message of Harmony Day is, 'Everyone Belongs'. It is a day when we are 'mindful' of the wonderful fact that we have so many cultures and backgrounds living here in Australia making this an amazing place to live. It allows us to experience new things, share ideas, gain knowledge and be more innovative.

Every art decision the students have made in their Mindful Heart creations, are to promote the message of Harmony Day and the feelings you have or actions you take when you feel like you belong, are valued and accepted no matter what your background. 

Our line and shape choices are aimed to promote feelings of calmness, positivity and belonging.

Our colour choices promote our individuality while also working together harmoniously. They also represent feelings of love, peace, celebration and happiness as well as the official colour of Harmony Day, orange.

Our individual hearts work together to make one beautiful big heart.

We hope you enjoyed our Harmony Day Mindful Hearts Art Installation while you took a 'mindful moment' to reflect on how amazing it is to be living in such a wonderful country.

Happy Harmony Day!