Anzac poppies

For the past few weeks, we have been looking at World War One and what happened at Gallipoli. Today we read a lovely picture book called 'The Red Poppy' and talked about how the poppies were a bit of beauty and wonder in amongst the horror and death that was life in the trenches. We contrasted that to Jesus death on the cross....the wonder and the horror! A great link right after Easter.

We then looked at what a field of poppies looked like and how some artists had represented their different perspectives. We then used watercolours to paint our own interpretations of the poppies amongst the fields or trenches.

Here are a few of the final creations...

Cartooning

Hello and welcome back! Sorry I have been slack in writing posts, but school and life has been busy!

But here we go....as you may know by now I love art and creative things....so I really enjoy doing visual arts lessons in the classroom.

A few weeks ago, my students had a go at cartooning. We first looked at the features of the face, drawing cartoon eyes, noses and lips. We then toured around the classroom and had a look at what other students had designed. The students then drew a shape for a face (round, oval, triangular, jelly bean...) and then choose a eye, nose and mouth design. The trick is to make the facial features (especially eyes) really big - out of proportion!.

We then outlined with black textas and then block coloured them with oil pastels. They turned out great!

 

Following on from this lesson, the next week we looked at Grandparent cartoons.

Using similar techniques and methods the students drew 'old people' cartoons. They then outlined then in felt tip pen and coloured then in with watercolour pencils.

Next they scrunched up the paper (this was a hit!) and then used a wet paintbrush to activate the watercolour. The watercolour seeps into the creases made by the scrunching, thereby giving it an old and aged look. Once again, my students are very talented!