Students in Year 6 looked at the rocket paintings of Peter Thorpe which include abstract outer space backgrounds with a rocket, as inspiration to create their own artwork. Thorpe, based in North Carolina, USA has always had an interest in space exploration and space science. My students looked through his website to see the variation … Continue reading Abstract Outer Space scene inspired by Peter Thorpe ~ Year 5-6
This project complemented the classroom topic of Geography, exploring topography and contour lines of hills and mountains on maps, to then make a 3D model from cardboard or foam. I gave the students the choice of cardboard from boxes, Styrofoam in thick and thin sheets, or coloured foam sheeting. I had so much Styrofoam in … Continue reading Topographic Models~ Year 5
You can only love the fun and zany art of Joel Moore, aka Mulga. ( @mulgatheartist ) His characters and scenery are bright and imaginative. We looked at his mural of fruit characters that he did in a shopping centre in Sydney as well as his process of drawing, colouring and outlining his pictures through … Continue reading Fruit & Vegetable Characters: Mulga (Joel Moore) style ~ Yr 5-6
https://videopress.com/v/uANCaKkX?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true While exploring the theme of the brain in Art lessons, I saw an activity to make a 'brain hat' by printing, cutting & folding a template, but wanted something more 'arty' so using the right side of my brain- (known as the creative artistic side!) I came up with the idea to make a … Continue reading Brain Hats~Creative / Logical side – Year 5
I did this project with Year 3/4, but would be really great do with Year 5/6 (11-12 year olds). Firstly, students viewed and analysed different types of landscapes by Australian artists, including Streeton, Drysdale, McCubbin, Namitjira, and Nolan. Students began this project by choosing an Australian landscape type they wanted to depict. We sorted photos … Continue reading Mixed Media Landscapes ~ Yr 3-6
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
Our school was doing a "Discover Dairy" inquiry unit and so we were making lots of artworks of cows! The inspiration for this lesson was from "paper paintings" of cows by Elizabeth St Hilaire (Nelson) "Paper Paintings" by Elizabeth St Hilaire The students looked at some St Hilaire's "paper painted" cows and inferred the techniques … Continue reading COLLAGE COWS ~ Inspired by Elizabeth St Hilaire. Year 5/6 art lesson.
I had seen this lesson on various school blogs using Nick Rowland's explosive volcano artwork as inspiration for students to produce their own using some of his techniques. LEARNING INTENTIONS: To respond to a volcano artwork by UK artist Nick Rowland. To make an artwork of a volcano using techniques explored in Nick Rowland's work. … Continue reading Natural Disaster: Volatile Volcanoes! -Yr 5/6 art lesson
Chalk Pastel Portraits- Marten Jansen inspired Students viewed portraits made by Dutch artist Marten Jansen, discussing use of colour ,line, shape. I just used "head shots"; some of his pieces are not suitable to use in primary school, eg. 'Street walker', 'Solicitation' for obvious reasons!! They discussed different colour combinations to show emotion or create a … Continue reading Abstract Expressionism Portraits: Marten Jansen inspired~Year 4
This lesson requires careful cutting out for the silhouette soldiers for it to look effective. I printed out pictures of ANZAC soldiers from the internet that would be suitable as silhouettes (on A3 paper). Students cut out the 'positive' shapes of the soldiers to be left with the 'negative' background to use like a stencil … Continue reading ANZAC soldier silhouettes: Year 5-6 art lesson
