Student Artwork This project tied in with our "Picasso Cow Program" where the school was involved in learning about the dairy industry and the health benefits of eating dairy products. The "Discover Dairy" website was a wealth of information with loads of short informative videos. Firstly, I posed some questions to students to see what … Continue reading Farm Scene with George the Farmer- Year 1/2 Mixed Media Art lesson
Melbourne artist John Kelly is well known for his many cow sculptures and paintings, but they are rather intriguing because they are a boxy shape and have an elongated neck and small head. It is not until you find out the back story for these strange bovines that they make sense. His inspiration came from … Continue reading Milk Bottle Cows- John Kelly inspired ~ Year 5/6 art lesson
LEARNING INTENTION & SUCCESS CRITERIA: We are learning about the 4 stomachs of a cow and how they make milk and digest food. I can draw the the side view of a cow and colour it in a chosen breed, eg, Holstein, Ayreshire, Jersey, Guernsey, etc. I can draw and label the four stomachs of … Continue reading Cows with Four Stomachs! Year 3/4 Art lesson
LEARNING INTENTIONS: To use shapes to draw a farm scene- a cow in green pasture with a red barn. To use skills of tracing, drawing, colouring, cutting, gluing, painting and techniques of making texture. To make red painted paper adding horizontal or vertical lines as texture for a barn. SUCCESS CRITERIA: I can trace/ draw … Continue reading Holstein Cow & Barn- Prep art lesson
Fauvist Cows ~ water soluble pastel LEARNING INTENTIONS: Students will explore the Fauvist movement by drawing a cow and and colouring with bold, bright colours. To follow a guided drawing of a cow’s head and use bold colours, like the “Fauves”. SUCCESS CRITERIA: I can follow directions to draw a large cow’s head that fills … Continue reading Fauvist Cows~ by Prep/ Foundation
The Prep students made a mixed media artwork of the cow jumping over the moon from the nursery rhyme “Hey Diddle Diddle, the cow jumped over the Moon". The foil moon idea came from @monpetitsoukdidees and it worked really well. They used SHAPE to help them draw parts of a cow using a rectangle for … Continue reading “The Cow Jumped over the Moon!” Prep Art lesson
