A site dedicated to my students who have worked hard in producing work that they should be proud of. In addition endless postings of ideas and resources helping with the teaching of Visual Arts, in Middle Schools.
Total Pageviews
Thursday, 24 September 2015
Year 7 Venetian masks
Students final practical assessment task. Each student research, designed and applied their knowledge about the six elements of art.
Year 9 - self portraits
Assessment task - explore colour and utilise their face (or relative) to create a portrait
Wednesday, 17 June 2015
Homage to Minjae lee
Year nine art exploring Minjae lees faces, as inspiration. Students used any medium they wanted to use. Paints, inks, gel pens, pencils, felt tips. Some examples.....
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.
Saturday, 6 December 2014
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.
Thursday, 9 October 2014
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....
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
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.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)






































