Keith Haring Inspired Paintings

We learnt about the artist Keith Haring and enjoyed exploring his artwork. The students enjoyed viewing and playing on Keith Haring Kids website.
Using their Visual Art diaries they wrote about facts about the artist and then enjoyed drawing Harring inspired images. First the students drew their designs with a Graphite lead pencil, outlined their drawings with either a black Sharpie or black paint. They were encouraged to use vibrant colours. They absolutely enjoyed this project and remained completely focused. Outstanding Art Year 5 students!

Cardboard Marionettes inspired by Joel Henriques

This term the Year 1 and Year 2 students are learning about toys. Well, I did think to myself how on earth I was going to come with 11 weeks worth of toy making. So I wanted to make a basic marionette puppet and came across Made by Joel and found this simple but fantastic idea. I absolutely love this website, it has some amazing ideas. Anyway, the children loved the activity, because it was simple yet very effective. They added other parts to their marionettes and we used corrugated cardboard. It was a great success. The pleasing part was seeing them play with them outside in the playground.

More Monkeys - Year 6

OK, so now I'm really impressed with the latest sock monkeys that are coming through. Some students chose to take them home to work on. I'm so very proud of my students and it has been wonderful to see the talent shine, especially from the students who never speak and just get on with the job. Absolutely extraordinary..

There's Monkey Business in the Art Room!

 It has now become a tradition that every year our Year 6 students make sock monkeys. The process in making the sock monkeys is quite lengthy and some students lose interest. Most enjoy the experience and even go a step further in making their own cool clothes. Somehow though I start off with 50 needles and end up with just over 20. Next year I will purchase all the the socks, I found that having to rely on students to bring in their socks delayed the starting of the project.

Crazy Pigs - Preps

I absolutely love these pigs! These amazing drawings are created by my Prep students. I was trying to teach the students that just by positioning the eye balls in certain positions in the eyes, you can achieve personality in your drawings. We used A4 white cover paper and oil pastels. I guided the students and the results were once again, amazing... such talented students!

Winter Trees - Year 3/4

I saw a similar Art activity on a blog and changed it a little. We used oil pastels and basically drew organic lines for the background, moon and sky. Using black for the for ground looks very effective against the cool colours. The objective of this activity, was to encourage the students to draw an interesting tree and also to focus on colour. Result... outstanding!

Traditional Chinese Landscapes - Year 5

Ok, so I like Asian Art! I have posted a few different Asian Art ideas. I remember when I was in High School, I painted something similar. This was very challenging for the students. I guided them in how to draw the Chinese Temple. Most of my students were pleasantly surprised, even though they were extremely challenged. Rather than using watercolour, we used chalk pastel. So once the students outlined their pencil drawing with a black Sharpie, they added colour. For an added feature, we added ink and the students used the paint blowing technique to add a tree. I would've liked to see more trees on the right side of the temple, reaching the roof. Overall the result was very good. Well done Year 5s!