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Art Show 2012

Opening Night and Auction

What a fantastic evening! 

Thank you to all the staff and parents for all their support. 

Not forgetting the students for their outstanding efforts in Visual Arts.

Looking forward to the next Art Show in 2014!

Andy Warhol's Cats.

Andy Warhol loved cats. He had many, many cats all called Sam! Year 1 drew cats and painted them with bright watercolours.

Here are some of Andy's cats:

Here are some of Year 1's cats:

Andy Warhol's Soup Cans

Year 1 have been learning about Andy Warhol and Pop Art as part of their unit of work about the past.
Andy Warhol was the world's first art celebrity. He is famous for his artworks of Campbell's Soup cans.

Andy painted Soup Cans because he ate soup everyday for lunch. He didn't think art had to be important or special. Andy thought art was in everyday life.

I found these Pop Art cans in the supermarket just as Year 1 were starting their Pop Art topic. Aren't they fantastic? I think they will make great pencil tins for the art room, once I've eaten the soup!

Year 1 designed their own Warhol inspired Soup Cans. Students practiced their 3D shapes by drawing cylinders. Year 1 students also experimented with using bright acrylic paints and invented brand new soup flavours! 

Bees

 Lesson 1

Year 1 discussed tessellating patterns and looked at the tessellating hexagonal design inside honeycomb.
We draw our own honeycomb by tracing around hexagons with a yellow pastel. It was a bit tricky making our own tessellating patterns but I thought Year 1 did extremely well and were very resilient!
After this step, we painted each hexagon using watercolour paints.

Lesson 2

Year 1 students each had a turn doing printmaking. I had carefully carved a bee out of lino, which Year 1 students rolled black paint onto with rollers, then pressed the lino on to their honeycomb paintings.
The result is fantastic! Well done Year 1!

Sounds sensational!

Year 1 have been looking closely at Kandinsky's abstract paintings of music compositions. Year 1 discussed how abstract means your picture does not have to look like real life and how abstract art is often an experiment with colours and techniques.
Wassily Kandinsky loved art and loved music. The artist combined his two loves together by creating artworks about music!
To start the lesson, Year 1 looked. Looked at Kandinsky's colours, shapes, symbols, repeated patterns.
Next, Year 1 listened. Students listened to Pachelbel's Canon in D Major.
With pastels, the students used happy colours (red, orange, yellow and pink) or sad colours 
(blue, green, purple, grey) depending on how the music made them feel.
Students added different shapes and symbols for the different instruments they heard. 
Finally, Year 1 students used watercolour paints to add final details to their artwork.
Thank you to Vili, Ciara, Sophia B and Amira for letting me display their wonderful artworks!