Going Cubist!!

Last week we traced photos onto acetate to create a semi-abstract self-portrait. This week we've used the same photos, but this time working directly onto the surface of the photo to abstract it using a cubist perspective.

Eadie O (Yr 1)

Amazing Self-Portraits on Acetate

These amazing pictures were created with a painted paper background and black marker drawings on acetate. Before beginning we looked at examples and discussed the difference between realism (life-like), semi-abstract (altered, but the original subject is still recognizable). We visualized a realism-abstract continuum - on one end is art as realistic as we can make it, on the far end is totally abstract - so changed or totally divorced from the original inspiration that it is no longer recognizable. And in between are infinite levels of the semi-abstract.

This week we are using photos of ourselves as the starting point for a semi-abstract self portrait.

Chan N (Yr 3)

Bronte B (Yr 4)

Puzzle Trees

Lachlan F (Yr 6)

Charlotte C (Yr 2)

This week we have created Puzzle Tree pictures using oil pastel.

Snake Coil Pots

Kate P

Clay - one of our favourite lessons each term!

This term we've made coil pots, winding the last coil up to form a snake. Some of the kids went further and wound the last coil around the pot so that their snakes are wrapping themselves around the pot.

The Year of The Snake

In celebration of the Chinese New Year on February 10, 2013 - The Year of the Snake!

Zara B (Yr 5)

Dali Elephants

At the end of last year I took a few weeks off and had a wonderful holiday traveling around Spain. I promised the kids that I'd come home with lots of great ideas for our art class ......

After looking at 'The Elephants' by Spanish Surrealist artist Salvidor Dali we drew our own elephants (and other creatures!) in the style of Dali, with bodies positioned high in the page and balanced on impossibly spindly legs.

Ziva G (Yr 1)