What do you call a monkey with a wand? Hairy Potter!
We're celebrating the Chinese Year of the Monkey with mad monkey cartoons, and mad monkey jokes!!
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More Mad Monkeys
What do you call a monkey with a wand? Hairy Potter!
We're celebrating the Chinese Year of the Monkey with mad monkey cartoons, and mad monkey jokes!!
Monkey Madness
With 2016 being the Chinese New Year, Year of the Monkey, we are celebrating with a guided drawing using B and 4B pencil with soft pastel. These 'how to' pencil drawings take concentration and patience, and I am always astounded at what our artists (many of whom are in lower Primary) are able to achieve!
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| Sophia |
Dreaming with Chagall ...
Modernist artist Marc Chagall grew up in Russia, later working in the US and France. His painting 'Paris Through the Window'(1913), symbolises his dream of living and painting in Paris.
Looking at this wonderful painting, we noticed Chagall's use of symbols, floating figures and expressionist use of colour. We talked about places we dream of visiting, before creating our art in watercolour or tempera resist.
Like Chagall, we have used a window to separate our inside 'now' place and our outside 'dream' place, with a figure (ourselves or a favourite animal) looking out of the window towards ourselves floating over our dream place.
Our pictures are lively, colourful and very imaginative!
Looking at this wonderful painting, we noticed Chagall's use of symbols, floating figures and expressionist use of colour. We talked about places we dream of visiting, before creating our art in watercolour or tempera resist.
Like Chagall, we have used a window to separate our inside 'now' place and our outside 'dream' place, with a figure (ourselves or a favourite animal) looking out of the window towards ourselves floating over our dream place.
Our pictures are lively, colourful and very imaginative!
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| Ethan |
Warhol Inspired Endangered Animals
Our art this week is inspired by Andy Warhol's 'Endangered Species' series, looking especially at his use of colour to evoke feelings about his subjects.
We're using black marker and layered oil pastel on digitally manipulated photos of wild animals, thoughtfully selecting our colours for emotional impact, before adding a final layer of black oil pastel. It is exciting to see our animals re-emerge as we scratch the black away.
We're using black marker and layered oil pastel on digitally manipulated photos of wild animals, thoughtfully selecting our colours for emotional impact, before adding a final layer of black oil pastel. It is exciting to see our animals re-emerge as we scratch the black away.
Happy New Art Year!
We're celebrating the start of a new art year with an explosion of fireworks!
Many of us saw the new Peanuts movie over the holidays, and we started the lesson with an amusing short clip from the movie for inspiration. We looked at the basic shapes of the main Peanuts characters, and discovered that the same shapes can be used to draw all of the characters with individualisation of the hair and clothes.
Many students chose to create cartoon self portraits of themselves as Peanuts characters!
Many of us saw the new Peanuts movie over the holidays, and we started the lesson with an amusing short clip from the movie for inspiration. We looked at the basic shapes of the main Peanuts characters, and discovered that the same shapes can be used to draw all of the characters with individualisation of the hair and clothes.
Many students chose to create cartoon self portraits of themselves as Peanuts characters!
Dreaming of an Aussie Christmas
As Term 4 comes to an end and the excitement of Christmas is building, we are creating our own Aussie Christmas works of art, sand and surf and all the fun of summer! Of course they all have one thing in common - our guided drawing of Santa in the foreground as he dreams of another wonderful Aussie Christmas!
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