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
This term, students will be given the opportunity to expand their skills in drawing. They will explore techniques and materials that require them to develop their imaginative capabilities as artists, drawing on their visual memory and a range of prompts that support new ways of expressing a subject matter. Students will be supported each week to create a
Week 3 and 4 This week our focus was to deepen our experience of close observation of an object or series of objects and to sort and organise, re- configure and arrange the drawing or motif to create a repeating pattern. This is one method of designing a repeating pattern based on close and detailed
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Week 5 This week we have come to understand the layering aspect of Rurriwuy’s work and have been taken through each technical stage of the process of how the Yolngu people traditionally work. Rarri talked about the patience needed to work as she does. She told us that she learnt to paint by watching and
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Artist in Residence – Rarriwuy Marika Week 4 This week we have been learning from our wonderful Artist in Residence, Rarriwuy Marika. Rarri has been telling us about her home in North Eastern Arnhem land and has been explaining the importance of language in her community. Rarri is an artist and teaches Yolngu Matha, the
Term Overview: In term 2 students will have the wonderful opportunity to examine Aboriginal art through the works of the Top End artists Wandjuk Marika and Ngarra. Throughout the term, students will contemplate Aboriginal people’s spiritual, cultural and ancestral connection to, and custodianship of, the land. They will examine how Aboriginal art speaks to the
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