Our Pets Inspired By Dean Russo

Our art this week is inspired by contemporary American artist Dean Russo.

A Street Art influence is evident in Russo's work, in which he can use up to 10 different media, often including graffiti-like words, spray paint, hand cut stencils and collage to create vibrant pictures full of colour and movement. We've looked specifically at Russo's dog pictures which so beautifully reflect his love of animals.

Our mixed media pictures are created using photos of our pets and layers upon layers of pattern in mixed media - including crayon watercolour resist and black, silver and colour permanent marker on acetate. They are spectacular!!

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Dean Russo: 'Hey! Smile!'

Mad Giraffes

The giraffe, the tallest land dwelling mammal with distinct markings and enormous eyes, has been the subject of many works of art through the ages.

Our giraffes are completed as guided drawings with 2B and 4B pencil with lots of contrasting tone, then adding humorous props with mad bursts of colour!

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Folk Art Flowers for Mother's Day

Mother's Day is a day for celebrating the special women in our lives - Mums, Grandmas or even favourite Aunties! And what better gift to show our love and appreciation than a beautiful vase of flowers? Our folk art collage is an adaptation from Cassie Stephens, inspired by the wonderful, colourful art of mexican folk artist Kerri Ambrosino.

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Making Waves!

We looked at art by local Sunshine Coast artist Terry Cooper, loving his use of line and colour to capture the energy of the waves... before making waves of our own!

Terry Cooper

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Scribbly Gums

Our art this week is inspired by Gustav Klimt's 'Birch Forest' and this lesson from Angela Anderson.
Our version has a uniquely Australian twist, taking the Australian Scribbly Gum for our subject. This tree hosts the Scribbly Gum moth larvae, which leaves a distinctive and quite beautiful squiggly pattern as it burrows beneath the bark of the tree.
We masked our trees with adhesive contact before painting on canvas sheets and embellishing with stamped gold pattern. When the paint dried we carefully removed the masking and finished the trees with pen & oil pastel. A final smudge of gold paint adds a shimmering shadow along the length of each tree.
This painting is so effective, yet not difficult to do, so that every child experiences the pride of achievement!

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It Must Be Easter!

Our last lesson for the term - and the holidays are here again!

We are recognising Easter time this year with our wonderful rabbit drawings in fine black gel pen, mounted on a pile of collaged coloured paper and soft pastel Easter eggs! We have also thought  about what Easter means to each of us and many children added words into their art to show this!

Have a wonderful holiday, and I will see you all next term!

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