Year 4 Op Art

I was really excited and nervous about doing this lesson as I feared that students would not understand the concept. I must say that students did an amazing job and put forth a lot of effort. We discussed what op art is and looked at some examples and then discussed what artists did to create op art. We learned that using lines, colour, contrast, and patterns are used create the illusion of movement and vibration.

Students had the choice to use fine liners, fat blacks, textas, pencil crayons and or metallic texts. I also gave students a planning sheet and they picked their best idea out of three.

I love how each student added in their own little flavour. Even the year 5s and 6s were amazed and wanted to get in on the action.

Preps go Under the Sea

Preps were inspired by Sea Creatures

Magic word: Cool Colours

Preps explored wax resists, cool colours, oil pastels and acrylic paint all in one go.

Day 1: First we created the coral and then we painted the whole page using cool watercolours. I also added a bit of sneaky salt, which I referred to as "magic" to their work to add some texture.  One prep asked me why I was adding salt and another prep said that it was because there is salt in the sea... CUTE.

Day 2: We drew on our sea creatures and colour or painted them in. Half of the classes created their creatures using oil pastels and texta on cover paper and the other half used acrylic paint and oil pastels.
I found that using acrylic paint for the big sea creatures and oil pastels for "baby" sea creatures was more successful.

Some sneaky goggly eyes.

I was blown away with this Preps coral

Year 5 and 6 Pieces

Students are slowly finishing off their first piece of art. I am pleasantly surprised at how the year 5s are doing. It is the first year that they get to plan and create their own projects. They each get a folio at the beginning of the year and have to plan and design an artwork. I have to approve their plan before they can get creating.

I look forward to posting more pictures soon!

Year 6- Photography

Year 6- Totem Pole

Year 6- Soft Pastel

Year 6- Watercolour Pencils

Year 6 - Basketball model

Year 5- Line Design

Year 5- Texta

Year 6- Texta and Soft Pastel

Year 4 Sewing Piece

Students designed their own sewing piece on paper. After students completed their good copy they copied it on to calico fabric using pencil or a fabric pen. Next time we wont use pencil because it was a bit hard to erase afterwards.

Students were encouraged tp use the back stitch"poke up to where you want to go and go back to your last hole" was the phrase we used to help us remember.

Early finishers turned their embroidery into a pillow

More weaves

Weaving continued...

Year 2 Dragons

Every term we have a planning week which leaves me teaching 5 classes of year 1s and 2s for 1 hour.  This term I decided to do origami boats with the year 1s and dragons with the year 2s. We need some arty decorations for Asian week next term.

First, students drew on the back of the contact paper with pencil and when they were happy with their design they turned their paper around and traced over their lines with black texta. Students then carefully coloured their dragons using permanent marker. Normally I would have the kids place their dragons onto foil but because of  time restrictions and having art in their classrooms, I did it myself.

For the mural I cut out construction paper and added soft pastel.

The dragons are outside of the office if you want to come see!