Art Gallery

This page is full of photographs of children's art works so is therefore very graphic intensive.  Please be patient while their works of art load up.
 

Title: Bottles Artist: Orla and Vanessa Year Level: Year 6/7               Term 2 Medium: Black pen and Paint Comments: Children had to lay bottles side by side across the paper then draw around the tops of bottles.  Move bottles down the page but change the order. Use several shades of blue to paint the bottle pattern. Inspired by: Art discussion: neutral colours, tone, shades, tints, silhouettes

Title: Dot Paintings Artist: Vanessa Year Level: Year 6/7               Term 2 Medium: Paint and Cotton tips Comments: Students, after discussing and listening to Aboriginal tales, utilised primary and secondary colours to produce dot paintings that depict a simple story.  Inspired by: Aboriginal stories

Title: Art Appreciation Artist: Jessica Year Level: Year 5               Term 2 Medium: Various Comments: We imitated the styles of four different artists. Inspired by: Rouseau, Picasso, Lichtenstein, Dufy

Title: Tutankahman Masks Artist: Various students in Room 15 Year Level: Year 6/7               Term 2 Medium: Newspaper, flour and water glue, gold, blue and black paint  Comments: We made the frame and then paper mached it. Then we spray painted it with gold and painted the blue and the black over the gold paint. Inspired by: The Gold Tutankahman Mask

Title: Line Drawing Artist: Renee/Susan Year Level: Year 7               Term 2 Medium: Paints Comments: Drew irregular lines down the page then coloured in shades of red. Inspired by: Take a line for a walk.

Title: Rainbow Fish Artist: Tasha, Matt, Peter, Crystal Year Level: Year 7               Term 2 Medium: Food colouring, chalk, acrylic Paint Comments: Using a photocopy of a Markus Pfister illustration, it was cut into quarters.  Working in groups of four, students had to enlarge their quarto to A4 size. Through consultation with group members they had to ensure that each drawing connected appropriately. When the four quarters were completed the background was shaded using food colouring dye.  Chalk or paint was used to transform the drawing into life.  Students again consulted each other to ensure continuity throughout the piece of art. Inspired by: Markus Psfister

Title: Native Sunsets Artist: Dean Year Level: Year 6/7               Term 2 Medium: Edicol wash and card Comments: Celebrating the Foundation of Western Australia by creating silhouettes of Australian Native plants against the sunset. Plants shown are Kangaroo Paws.  Inspired by: Australian landscape

Title: Native Sunsets Artist: Tish Year Level: Year 6/7               Term 2 Medium: Edicol wash and card Comments: Celebrating the Foundation of Western Australia by creating silhouettes of Australian Native plants against the sunset. Plants shown are  Red Flowering Gums.  Inspired by: Australian landscape

Title: Silhouette Artist: Terri-Lea Year Level: Year 6/7               Term 2 Medium: various Comments: A Legend silhouette extends concepts of individuality and self worth being developed as part of health learning. Inspired by: The beautiful personalities of our class.

Title: Escher Tesselations Artist: Dean Year Level: Year 6/7               Term 2 Medium: Texta on paper Comments: Escher type tesselations integrates maths and art learning areas. In order to successfully tesselate the shape must be reflected. Each shape commenced as a single square of card. Inspired by: Maths learning

Title: Concentric Circles Artist: Cassandra Year Level: Year 6/7               Term 2 Medium: Oil Pastel or Chalk Comments: Developing ideas and skills with colour combinations. Inspired by: Colour

Title: Egyptian Cats Artist: various class members Year Level: Year 6/7               Term 2 Medium: Papier Mache Comments: Integrates with Term One theme of Ancient Egypt. Model of sacred cat Bast or Bastet. Cats were important in their roles of keeping rodent populations down, hunting and company. Inspired by: Ancient Egyptions

Title: The Pyramids Artist: Matthew Year Level: Year 4               Term 2 Medium: Card and tracing paper - using perspective to create 3D look.  Comments: Card was ripped to represent sand. Tracing paper laid over top. Pyramids of different sizes cut and folded to create 3D effect. Inspired by: The Pyramids

Title: Xray art - Northern Territory Artist: Sam Year Level: Year 5             Term 2 Medium: Pastels, black crayon and nails to etch Comments: In line with our Australian theme we have spent time looking at Aboriginal Art and in particular X-ray art which can be found in rock sites in the Northern Territory.  We looked at the techniques of lines, dots and cross hatching used.  We also tried to use traditional colours. To create these we used an etching technique using pastels, black crayon and nails to etch. Inspired by: Australia

Title: Walls of China Artist: Danielle Year Level: Year 5              Term 2 Medium: Pastels, charcoal pencils, tissue paper Comments: We have spent time doing some artist studies.  In line with the Year of the Outback we have looked at the works of artists such as Russell Drysdale and Sydney Nolan.  After studying Russell Drysdale's Walls of China picture we then had a go at recreating this piece using a variety of materials and taking colour, line, objects and position into consideration. Inspired by: Australian Artists

Title: The Faces of Clowns Artist: Sean Year Level: Year 3               Term 2 Medium: Paint, paper, feathers, pompoms etc. Comments: In our focus on Circus Life this term, the students in the ESU have created a face of a clown. The focus was to draw big and creative expressioned faced to portray a happy and lively clown. Students created a collage with the materials to give their clowns a 3D effect. The students' own handprints were added to the finished picture giving the appearance of a laughing, happy clown. Inspired by: Circus theme

Title: My Favourite Place Artist: David Year Level: Year 3               Term 2 Medium: cottonwool balls, shells, cardboard, paper plate, paint, pompoms, pipecleaners etc. Comments: We had to put all the bits together to make it look like our favourite place. We had to figure out where to put it first and it was our special place. My special place is the pool in Klmscott.  I love going down the slide. It goes really fast. It is fun.  You have to have a mat. You can go on your back. It is cool!  There is a fast one and a medium one and there's a slow one. I went on the fast one nd that is for big kids like me. Medium kids go on the medium one and the slow one is for little kids. Inspired by: Where the Forest Meets the Sea by Jeannie Baker.

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