Year 3 Mixed Media Flowers

Prep Tinted Lines

Preps learned to use acrylic paint for the first time. Exciting and messy times!

Students found out what happens when white paint is mixed into a colour. Preps had fun taking turns mixing the their paint together. 

Year 3 Up Close Perspective

Year 3s have worked beautifully to create their close up flowers. We learned that up close objects have more detail than objects that are further away (part of our perspective unit). So proud of this lesson. 

Students learned about sketching and drawing what they saw. Students spent half of a lesson sketching their flowers and other half practicing different wet on wet techniques using tube watercolour paints. The next lesson students mixed their paint and painted their flowers using the wet on wet technique. For the final lesson students added in some texture and colour using the wet on dry technique and used soft pastel for the background. Students also outlined their flower using black glue.

Aboriginal Inspired Art

I teach 1 out of the 5 year 1 classes and we created art that was inspired by some famous paintings done by Aboriginal artists in Australia. Students noticed that dots and vibrant colours are a big feature of Aboriginal art.  First, we drew a picture of an animal found in Australia on black paper. Next, students dipped a wooden stick into acrylic paint and filled in their image with colour. Finally, we created a background using a paint brush and acrylic paint. Year 1s did a great job of carefully placing their dots onto their paper.

This activity was done in Term 3 during circus spendita rehearsals so many students either didn't create an animal or a background. I think the background looks fantastic without an animal on it!