Silhouette self portrait with stencil spray art canvas

Students explore using their bodies as a starting point. Outlined their torso, explored designs utilising shapes. Tattooing, tribal arts or just plain patterns. Using the craft knife they draw their designs and played with negative and positive shapes.

The canvas background is a collaboration of students using spray cans and some stencilling. 

Sugar skulls year eight mask studies.

  

Year eight Visual art students  looked at the history of the Mexican sugar skull. Once they research, answered a few questions, it was time to design their own. A mask glued onto a canvas board. Some used acylic paints, spraycans and black Felt-tip pen, gouche paints or even textas combined with paint. Here is a small example of what we done.

 

 

  

 

 

 

NO animals = NO earth animal study chalk pastels

Animal study of animals that are unique, interesting, different. Students looked at sections of the animals that they saw as interesting. Their eye, ear, claw, etc.... Even under a microscope.

Here are our first finished. More to come. 

Dragon fly closeup, red fox, duck, moth, are just a few we looked at....

Oil Pastel CATS on Sandpaper Year seven ART (colour, shapes, tone)

Year sevens explored oil pastels. We used sandpaper to draw cats and oil pastels to apply line, shape, colour and tone. 

Year nine abstraction faces - mixed medium.

Year nine students investigation of Minjea Lee, using his work to inspire the use of colour, line, pattern, shapes using any medium these choose to. 

Photocopy, and using medium transfer onto canvas boards.

These are their results.

Texture - teddy bear printing.

Great fun! 

No teddy bears were harmed in the making of these prints 😀

Year nine FISH Linocuts.

Each student made a lino cut of a fish. Printed it several times, on any paper surface they could find, this included scrapbooking paper, CANSON paper, newspaper.... To name a few. 

Each Made a scape - this was again any paper, paint, they wanted to use to create a background for their fish. It did not have to represent the sea, it was more a play with colour and shapes. 

Each fish, they could swap and use other students fish design in their scape, if they chose to do so. Or they could just use their fish design, placing it on the scape thinking about presentation, composition. 

Here are some of our finished works.....