Dali's moustache

Year 3 love Salvador Dali and his crazy artworks and mad moustache!

Year 3 created portraits of Dali with black pastels and used pipe cleaners for his moustache. They look brilliant! Well done Year 3!

Colour Wheel Trees inspired by Gustav Klimt.

In Art with Miss Nixon, we learnt:

Why the colour wheel is important, we also learnt to draw trees, how to use the colour wheel, we learnt about negative space and to use chalk pastels.

We learnt that when you smudge chalk pastels the picture doesn't disappear.

We learnt that using hair spray makes the chalk pastels stay on.

We learnt that using black oil pastels for trees makes the other colours stand out. 

We learnt the artist Gustav Klimt used swirls on many of his pictures and paintings.

We also learnt that half of the colour wheel is warm (yellow, orange and red), the other half (green, blue and purple) are the cool colours.

From 3W

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!

Inky Trees

Year 3 drew the beautiful, big trees in our school playground using ink and sticks. That's right, sticks. No brushes for us! Year 3 loved using different materials for drawing and their artworks look amazing!

Fantasy Flowers

Students designed fantasy flowers, beautiful vases and a border using pen. Then they added watercolour paints, using a maximum of 2 colours.

Trees

Year 3 and 4 used masking tape to create Australian Gum Trees. Students used pastels and watercolour paints to add details. The focus was on the trunks rather than the leaves to give the illusion that you were walking through the national park.

Lesson 1

1. Rip pieces of masking tape - stick on art shirt for safe keeping and to lose stickiness.

2. Place tape on art paper, starting from the top. Leave space at the bottom.

3. Add smaller pieces of tape to create branches.

4. Outline with black pastel, add shadows, add horizon.

 Lesson 2
1. Paint sky using water colours. Must blend a minimum of 3 colours together to create the look of a sunrise, sunset or bushfire.
2. Paint foreground /add any other details.
3. Allow to dry.

Lesson 3

1. CAREFULLY peel off tape, reveling gum trees underneath.

2. Smudge finger along one side of tree, dragging pastel in to create a 3D look. 

3. Add lines and knots to look like tree trunks.

 

They look great! Well done Year 4!