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!

Zentangle Landscapes with Gold

What is a Zentangle?

A Zentangle is an abstract drawing created using repetitive patterns. It is often black and white and is extremely detailed. 

Year 5 created Zentangle landscapes showing layers of earth. Inside the different layers they added pieces of metallic paper to show minerals and gold under the earth.

Pumpkins

K/6 B have been learning about where food comes from and different types of farming.
K/6 B drew pumpkins then traced them with PVA glue. Once the glue dried, it left a clear barrier for K/6 B to colour in and around. Colour was added with chalk pastels, which they smudged with their fingers, while blending a bit of white and black to the edges to make the pumpkins look 3D. Finally a bit of grass was added to the bottom.
Don't they look wonderful? You can see them displayed in our school office.

Fantasy Flowers

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

Manga Action Heroes

Year 4 looked closely at Manga (a form of Japanese animation) before designing their self-portraits as a Manga Action Hero. To research Manga, we watched some classic TV clips such as Sailor Moon, Astro Boy, Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon and my personal favourite, Samurai Pizza Cats!

Students had to think about what powers/skills they might have and practise drawing Manga characters in different action stances as well as imitate the unique way Japanese Manga artists draw hair and facial features. The students really enjoyed doing this project and the results were very successful. It was a nice end to our Japanese Program.

Do you recognise any of these superheroes from the playground?

Miss Nixon's artwork: