Fractured Faces (Monochromatic)

This project was a great success and some of the student's portraits are just stunning! I worked with 3 class's of Year 5's to 7's. We spoke about how we could give the portraits a bit of a twist by changing the perspective....enlarging an eye here or moving an ear there....and then went through the process of how to draw 'fracture' lines through the face - we also spoke a little about Picasso and Cubism at this point. I let them know that the fracture lines would be the only spaces left white and that they would need to colour the rest of their picture using only one colour plus black and white. There were howls of protest from some who said that it absolutely couldn't be done! We used water soluble oil pastels (beautifully soft and they blend really well.....unfortunately into the floor as well as on paper!), and then painted the backgrounds with ink (I did let them use one other colour here, just to add a bit of extra emphasis).

Zelda - Year 7

Lewis - Year 7

Hannah.C - Year 6

Brown Bear, Brown Bear.....

Inspired by the fabulous Eric Carle - painted with ink onto cartridge drawing paper.

Handprint Peacocks

I have seen a couple of versions of this before.... this was our take on it. The one that originally gave me the idea came from; http://elementaryartfun.blogspot.com.au/search/label/Warm%20and%20Cool%20Color%20Peacocks :0) While the original project was looking at warm and cool colours, we decided to just have fun with colour!....some students went with rainbows, others with similar or complimentary colours. We added mirror sequins to the feathers at the end which now sparkle beautifully on our display board!

Farhanah - Year 4

Hannah - Year 4

Jordanne - Year 4

Lhil - Year 4

Vy - Year 4

Close-up Cows!

This project was inspired by a need to do a project with a farm animal theme that myself and the kids wouldn't be totally bored by! It was also a great way to explore a bit of perspective and foreshortening with some junior students (Year 1-2)

World in A Lightglobe

This was inspired by a picture I saw on a site somewhere! I spoke to the students about Surrealism and how we could create a Surrealistic image by taking two everyday images and putting them out of context by combining them. The kids were really enthusiastic about coming up with all sorts of things that you wouldn't expect to find inside a lightglobe!

Patterns in Art

This was a great one to do after completing a very messy and chaotic project!

After looking at the types of patterns we could see in art, the students used these elements to create a radial design - I found it useful to get them to work outwards from a dot in the centre of their paper.

Laminated Ink Turtles

Painted ink turtles - put into A3 laminate sheet with torn tissue paper background - added 'bubbles' from leftover ink paintings - laminated and displayed on classroom windows.