This video shows how Jackson Pollock controlled his lines to work with paint expressively. The children LOVED making these Jackson Pollock style paintings and they where surprised to find that rather than just splashing and splattering paint they really could control the types of lines they wanted to make. Read full article »
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Can you control a line?
During our investigations of line we used ink and straws to see if we could control our lines in different ways. Blowing the ink across the page gave very interesting results and we had to try and control the lines to create shapes. We used water colour too - we realised a lot about how colours mixed by blowing the Read full article »
How many different kinds of lines can you see?
Continuing our unit on expression and abstract art the grade 2 students have been exploring the different types of line they can use in their art work. By looking at art works of their own and those of others they highlighted 7 different types of line: Straight, wavy, broken, curved, thin, thick and zig zag. We discussed how artists had used different Read full article »
Express Yourself!
The painter Kandinsky was said to have an usual sensory condition called synesthesia. This meant that he experienced the senses in an unusal way, when he heard music he saw colours and this was a huge inspiration to him and how he expressed himself through painting. Grade 2 explored the possibility of using the the emelents of colour, line and shape to express Read full article »
Mini-beast Sculptures
After a lot of hard work, patient problem solving and determination, grade 2 finally finsihed creating their minibeast sculptures. They have to be seem to be appreciated and I hope you will look out for them living in a suitable habitat around the school in the next few weeks. Here is a little taster. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ismanilaes/sets/72157628937368159/ Read full article »
Creating Public Art
Grade 2 classes have been extremely busy using 2D materials like newspaper and tape to create their 3D sculptures of mini beasts. Our objectives have been to create good shapes by continuing to look carefully at the real mini beasts and our drawings of them and also to make our mini beast structures strong. The tricky part has been making Read full article »
category: form and construction, Grade 2
Grade 2 classroom colaboration projects
All the works are now in the homeroom classrooms and they look great. I hope you will look out for them when you visit for parent teacher conferences. The kids worked really hard together and demonstrated that as artists they could be self directed, ethical, responsible and respectful whilst working as a team to create an amazing piece of art. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ismanilaes/sets/72157627705059209/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ismanilaes/sets/72157627705358821/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ismanilaes/sets/72157627785300310/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ismanilaes/sets/72157627794078823/ Read full article »
Grade 2 Mini-beasts
Grade 2 are going to make a piece of public art for the school as their first form and construction unit of the year. We looked at examples of Public art and the kids tried to decide what kind of art we could make for our school environment. They liked the idea of using animals and wanted to create an Read full article »
2 Duprat’s Shooting stars
Miss Duprat's class are excited about being in grade 2 and they love being part of the shooting stars, it is what brings them together as a group. They decided to create some stars to hang around the homeroom classroom. They all had very different ideas of how to make their stars and they found ways to demonstrate their uniqueness. Read full article »
2 Riviello’s Garden
Ms Riviello's class were inspired by a game they love to play called Plant's v's Zombies. They love the game because of the characters and that there are so many different types of plants and zombies. Some of the kids had not played the game but they were happy to create other things that we might find in the garden. Read full article »
Grade 2
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Grade 3
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Grade 4
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Ms. Nadia Hartley