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Tuesday, 26 May 2015

Summer Sparkle in the Northern Hemisphere

As I sit here huddled over the heater and watching the miserable weather being covered on the evening news, I can't help but be envious of our teaching friends in the Northern Hemisphere who are entering their warmer seasons. My sister- in-law in the UK has been posting beautiful spring photographs of the countryside in the North around Marple, lately.

But then when I look at the great fun we had here over our unless summer of 2014/15, and I'm satisfied. As part of my Seasons unit to help teach Y2 about Colour Theory, one class focused on the colours of summer and produced some stunning pieces.

We worked on A2 paper for these as I was curious to see how they would cope with a larger canvas. Well what do you think? I think they produced beautiful artworks.

I used the Marzano scale to write up the levelled success criteria for this unit and have included these for you as well. They cover, drawing skills, painting skills and Colour concepts.
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Monday, 25 May 2015

Winter Has Arrived in Earnest

With the wind howling outside and the rain teeming from the grey skies, it only seems fitting that I finally complete my Winter Woolies art unit.

This is a unit I enjoyed with my Y2 classes last year when we explored the element of LINE and then reengineered it this year to include some paint mixing and COLOUR theory as well.

These works have received so many compliments from all who have seen them so I wanted to share both versions with you.
The ideas can easily be upscaled to use with older primary students too.

I included some great snow photographs taken by my sister-in-law in the UK that really motivated the students when looking at the colours of the seasons. This helped students understand why we were working with certain colours.

Winter Woolies fits into my Seasons Series and you can grab yourself a copy of this unit and any others you may fancy by clicking my RESOURCES button at the top of this page, next to the HOME button.
Wishing a happy summer to my Northern Hemisphere friends.

With love, as always

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Saturday, 18 April 2015

Something Fishy - Sea Creatures with NZ patterns

One of my favourite NZ illustrators has always been Warren Pohatu. We looked at his work as a provocation for patterning our sea creatures. The aim was to communicate our NZ culture through our choice of lines and patterns.

We started our drawing practice by following a few drawing tutorials on youtube.
I have linked a couple below:

The students used reference images for drawing practice in their art journals too and tried out many different sea creatures before they settled on one to enlarge for their final. This they decorated with New Zealand kowhaiwhai patterns following our analysis of some of these. On a side note, there is great similarity between NZ Maori culture and language and that of Hawaii.

Here are images of the teacher models I used to demonstrate for the students. The whale was completed in water-colour / water soluble artist dye and the dolphins where finished with oil pastels, overpainted with black water-colour / water soluble artist dye .

For step-by step support, you can purchase this 78 pg. unit for your school to compliment any study based on the oceans and creatures that live in it.
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Monday, 19 January 2015

Painting water for Something Fishy

With my Y3 students, we also explored the element of line and used 'wavy' lines to help us draw water ripples.

We looked at many photographs of moving, rippling water and Paua / Abalone shell to inspire us.

The colours of these shells are so beautiful and we really wanted to capture the essence and iridescence of them.
The trick was to use metallic student acrylic paints on black cartridge paper and... Voila!

Gold and copper metallics also help to add the sparkle, but keep an eye on this bit as little ones LOVE anything shiny and will easily over-do it.

Visit TPT (here) and TNB (here) to view my step-by-step art lesson guide for Something Fishy (with New Zealand cultural line pattern focus). Assessment Rubric for Level 2 and student self reflection included.

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Saturday, 17 January 2015

Wassily Kandinsky - just for fun

As students completed their Kandinsky's Gardens paintings, I set out a printing learning center for them to experiment with more circles.

The center had:

- black paper strips (A3 triple-coated cartridge cut in half lengthwise). You need to provide white crayons for students to name their work :)

- plates of bright, pastel, metallic and fluro colours, and white

- a variety of circle shaped stamping objects, including ear buds, straws, lids, plastic rings, empty glue sticks, etc.

After a brief demonstration, paying particular attention to the work flow order, students were encouraged to experiment and print a composition of circles.

Once complete and hanging up to dry, students could go back and experiment further. Soon they were finding new ways to make marks with the stampers.

Super fun!! and a cool display too...love the variety and so vibrant :)

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