Year 3 Monoprints

This term, year 3s are focusing on printing. We are starting slowly and they were introduced to printing by creating a monoprint. Students inked up their plastic sheet and placed it on lithograph paper. They flipped over their paper and drew their images onto the back of their paper. There was plenty of opportunity for learning as students had to make sure that they used the appropriate amount of ink as well as making sure their plastic sheet did not stick to their paper to create successful prints. Some clever students learned that if they wanted to write a word on their paper they need to write the letters and word backwards. 

Year 3 Perspective

For the final piece of the term, students were ask to take all the skills they learned and use them to create one piece of art. During the term students learned about how to create depth and distance in their art and used soft pastels, ink, and watercolour pencils/crayons.

Students planned their piece on a small piece of paper and then used A3 paper for their final piece. Minecraft, ballet, and trees were a common theme in students art. 

Recycled Clouds

Preps learned about using recycled goods and found objects to create art. I saw this activity on another blog and fell in love with the idea.

Day 1: We read the book "A Forest" and talked about caring for the earth and how important it is to recycle. Students used a pencil to draw a cloud on a recycled piece of cardboard. Then they chose objects and glued them onto their cloud using PVA.

Day 2: After hours of cutting out the clouds, preps used cool coloured acrylic to paint their cloud. Preps did a fantastic job of making sure all the objects on their cloud were covered with paint. Early finishers created rain drops for their clouds.

Lovely!

Year 5 and 6 Pieces

Year 6

Year 6- Acrylic

Year 5- Acrylic/Stencil

Year 6- Balsa Wood/Sculpy

Year 6- Collaborative Minecraft

Display Cabinet 

Year 5- Splatter Paint and Soft Pastel

Year 5- Pencil crayon/texta

Year 5- Texta

Year 6- Watercolour pencils

Year 6- Watercolour 

Year 5- Balsa wood and sculpy

Year 6- Embroidery

The Dot

Art inspired by the book "The Dot" by Peter H. Reynolds

Day 1: After we read the story, students used watercolour paints to create dots. They started with one dot in the middle and used different colours to make their dot "grow".

Day 2: We printed with acrylic paint using found objects-bottle caps, corks, toilet paper rolls etc. The kids "signed" their work using a special gold marker.

Amazing!

Printing

The magic word in the Art Room was printing.

This was Preps first time printing and they did extremely well.

Day 1: Students used leaves, acrylic paint and rollers to create their prints (Oh sooo messy).

Day 2: Students chose either warm or cool coloured soft pastels to fill in their negative space/background (3 pieces each). Students learned to blend their soft pastels together using their index and middle fingers.

Love it!!!