Giant Grass “One of the most fundamental and practical aspects of art is the importance of materials. The stuff that artists use when they make a work of art influences both form and content. Every material brings something special to the creative process and the finished work. Materials influence how artists make their work and […]
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Week 5 Creating the stamp for the textile print… This week we used the process of collaging our images as a basis for the process we needed to go through in the preparation of our stamps. We cut, shaped, glued and labelled the compressed foam stamps and allowed them to dry over the course of
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Creating a motif or design Week 2 and 3 Creating a motif… “If you peek inside a sketchbook of a designer, you can see the birth of their ideas” This week, we have a range of natural materials on display that we are drawing, carefully examining the details of the objects. Through careful observation of
The Marimekko retrospective exhibition, Marimekko: Design Icon 1951 to 2018, is currently on at the Bendigo Art Gallery. Here is the blurb that accompanies the exhibition: Established during the golden age of post-war modernism, Marimekko is the Finnish textile and fashion company that achieved international fame in the 1960s and 70s with its bold
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Term 2 Live my Art… Wear my Art… Building on the work of Yayoi Kusama that we examined last term, this term we are examining the power of artists to express their creative selves beyond the canvas. Yayoi Kusama is an artist who ‘lives her art’. In many photos of her work, she is seen
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This week students have worked very hard to complete their self-portraits, inspired by the technical and aesthetic skill exhibited by Yayoi Kusama in her work. We explored the patterns created by her use of the dot motif. Students used filters as brushes and thick poster paint to explore the dot mark making. Students explored
Week 2: This week students used Yayoi Kusama’s work to explore colour theory. We examined primary colours and mixed our own secondary colours from the primary colours. We explored the relationships between colours and also played around with the amount of colour used when mixing. We aim to create a colour poster in a few
This term in Visual art we will be exploring the artist, Yayoi Kusama. Yayoi Kusama ‘Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama approaches dots from more of a metaphysical perspective. She incorporates polka dots into her work as three-dimensional forms, as subject matter, as content, and as transcendental symbols. She covers surfaces in polka dots, makes polka dot covered clothing
Week 6 and 7 Over the past few weeks, students have been tapping onto their imagination through the exploration of a range of approaches, skills and techniques. In week 5, they were asked to reflect on their work, and use elements of each of these explorations to design, draw and paint their own imaginary creature.
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Term 4 Inspiration and Imagination Week 4 update: Last week we explored a new technique to exercise our imaginative drawing skills. We embarked on an activity that exercised our imagination and ability to see. We created a series of ink stains using a straw and Indian ink. Within these, our challenge was to find a hidden