Wash Your Hands!

Well it's that time of year again! Winter drawing to a close can only mean two things - the Ekka and flu season!!

Cartoon art, while often humorous, often conveys a serious message. 

This week we looked at images of germs, which are such interesting organisms - invisible to the naked eye, some can be so dangerous and others essential to our existence. Microscopic, yet often quite beautiful! We've 'designed' our own germs and added them to photos of ourselves to create a humorous but timely picture called 'Wash Your Hands!'

Pretty cool aren't they?

Olivia

Olympic Silhouettes

The Rio Olympics are in full swing, and we all seem to have our favourite sports to follow. Whether you love the swimming, track and field, karate, weightlifting or gymnastics ... the list seems endless, and there is something for everyone!

Our art this week is inspired by our favourite Olympic events. We started by creating silhouettes of action figures before filling the negative space around them with vibrant, blended oil pastel, constantly referring to our colour wheel to select analogous colours that blend well together.

Josh

Birds of Brazil (Getting in the mood for Rio!)

The opening ceremony for the Rio Olympics is coming up this weekend, and the excitement is starting to mount! To help us get into the swing of things, over the next few weeks we'll have a Brazilian theme to our art.... starting with these wonderful Toca Toucan and Macaw paintings.

We've used vibrant red, blue and yellow fluoro paint, applied and mixed directly on the painting surface, rather than on the palette, for a fresh spontaneous feel. Hello Brazil!

Dream Jars for the BFG

We love watching movies to inspire our art, and I've had quite a few requests from students for a project inspired by the recently released BFG, based on the book by Rohal Dahl.

After watching a trailer for the movie, we looked at some examples of Quentin Blake's illustrations for the original book. His illustrations are deceptively simple, using spontaneous line to create characters full of movement, fun and humour.

What fantastic inspiration for our art this week!

Quentin Blake illustration: Sophie and the BFG 

We started with illustrations of our dreams, capturing them into 'Dream Jars' for the BFG's collection. Some students accepted the challenge to try drawing in the style of Quentin Blake! Others added more detail to their art, while keeping large areas clear for our final bubble effects.

Our Dream Jars are finished with acrylic paint bubbles. Bubbles are so delicate and elusive - here one moment, gone the next, popping away when you try to hold on to them - just like our dreams!

Talia

The 'Eyes' Have It

We started with a simple shape - the shape of an eye.... and with a fine black pen, crayons and liquid watercolour, we let our imaginations run wild!

Aboriginal Dot Influenced Landscapes

This week we drew inspiration from the unique Australian Aboriginal Dot art to create our mixed media landscapes.

Emma