What an amazing two weeks of fantastic visual art works and responses to the Kitchen Sink Artists provocation. In the past two weeks students were asked to examine their homes, the ordinary and everyday things in their home, and see them with artists’ eyes. Why would examining the home through the lense of the artist […]
Open the Kitchen Pantry ! The Kitchen Sink Artists week 3 and 4 Read More »
Over the past few weeks in visual art, students were asked to set up a space in the home and collect materials to work with throughout the term. It has been a delight seeing all of the wonderful responses that students have posted. Creating a space of your own is an important when beginning a
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Visual Art Weeks 7 and 8 This week we brought together Line, pattern, shape and colour into one final work… We also used Keith Haring’s images of Dancing Dogs as our main inspiration for the composition of our work. Students tried to capture the movement in Keith haring’s work by using angled
Keith Haring update Read More »
This week we reflected on the past few weeks and what we have explored in visual art. We have spent much time discussing Keith Haring’s images. We have explored line and developed our own line work through taking a line for a walk and drawing natural objects. We have explored pattern and found lots of
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Weeks 3 and 4 “First lines are a gift. We don’t always know what is coming next, where the journey of the line will lead us.” Tate Modern This week (week 3) we focussed on observational drawings of nature. We observed the plant specimens in vases and took a line for a walk in the
Line, Colour, Shape and the art of Keith Haring… Read More »
Drawing Our World in Pictures Line, shape and the art of Keith Haring “Children know something that most people have forgotten.” “Drawing … brings together man and the world. It lives through magic” Keith Haring This term, students will focus on the language of drawing through the study of a range of artists and their
Visual Art News Term 1 2020 Read More »
Week 9- Repairing the damage and vandalism to our structure… The following statement was read out to the assembly after the very sad news that we received on Monday that our bamboo structure had been vandalised over the weekend… two weekends ago the year 3/4 Artist in Residence Art Installation, designed and made by the
Week 8 It’s hard to know where to begin! This week the marvellous 3/4 students installed most of the bamboo structure, with a little help from our friends and champions, groundsman, Kulwinder and parent helper, Antonia Peric, Munir and Mittul, our artists in residents and Deb, our music resident. Thank you to all these wonderful
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Week 7 This week is our most exciting yet. We are beginning the building stage of our installation. The veranda of the visual art room was set up as a studio that incorporated, measuring and sawing lengths of bamboo and painting the ends that will be buried underground with a rubber bitumen paint to protect
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Week 6 This week the students spent time completing and refining their models, ready to present to Munir, Deb and myself. It was vital for each team to communicate the main ideas for their designs and instruments so when Deb, Munir and myself met, we were able to tease out the essential elements of each
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