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.....

My first Resin painting

Was lucky enough to go to a workshop on how to use resin and colour, what a great medium if you like colour and abstract. Not really suited to those who like the more realistic art on their walls.

Work in progress, what you got to remember us that the resin keeps moving for up to four hours after you put your colours on the canvas board.

Will be interesting to see what it looks like tomorrow. Or in my case when them mail it to me. Too wet to take on the plane. 

Year seven folio's

Searching the web always looking for new ideas, borrowed this idea from Pinterest, where I really don't know where I got my ideas from in .... The good old days. 

Students looked and browsed using the iPads for Abstract Art, focusing on lines, shapes and patterns. Colour was investigated last through the use of oil pastels. Where we looked at blending, application and emphasizing colours finally using a black outline, if we chose to.

Names were placed in the middle using a white pencil we coloured in our name, ART, 2014!

Marble jigsaw pieces finished

Year eight art, made large pieces of jigsaw puzzles. Each piece had coloured pencil drawings of marbles. We looked at shapes, reflection and tone while focusing on colour.