Prep- 2 As artists, we use our art to express our way of seeing the world around us. We opened our windows to the outside world when the restrictions eased and it was refreshing to view the outside world again, with a new perspective. Students responded to the idea of expressing their new outlook on […]
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Open the window – And let’s think about the family! In week 7 we welcomed the Prep – 2 students back while the 3-6 students continued with their on-line learning. These final weeks of on-line learning have been wonderful in terms of the students’ responses. The work this week represented a culmination of careful research
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Let’s open the bathroom door! Over the last couple of weeks the Kitchen Sink Artists have shown us how to explore our life at home in new and extraordinary ways! We have explored our favourite places, the kitchen pantry and even the bathroom! We examined the work of John Bratby who has created some wonderful
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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