Perfect Portraits

Look at the amazing artwork by the artists in Room 2. We were so proud to share them at assembly on Friday. Come into Room 2 for a closer look.

Art, artists and portraits

We have been learning about drawing portraits and the different ways artists do portraits. We have learnt that if you draw a picture of yourself it is called a self-portrait. We looked at the book "Willy's Pictures" By Anthony Browne and found an artist called Frida Kahlo who painted 55 self-portraits. She had a tough time throughout her life because she got badly hurt in an accident so she often painted herself in ways that showed this. We also talked about the famous Mona Lisa and wondered is she smiling and if she is what is she smiling about? Take a look at this website for kids about some famous artists for more information.

Colour with Leo

People Puppets

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Finding out about photography

We are learning about photography for art. We are learning about how to take good photographs. We have talked about how to use objects to frame our pictures. We had a look around our school and classroom for things that would make good frames and then tried out some of our ideas with a buddy. We looked at all our pictures and talked about which ones were most effective and why. You can see some for yourself here, which ones do you think are best?

Super star Students

In the last weeks of term we had two super stars, as we had a special award to give out for the International Science Festival that was held in Dunedin, as well as our assembly award.
Kane won our assembly award for his amazing, creative magic hat! We are hoping to hang our gorgeous creations from the rafters when we move back into our beautiful new classroom in the next few weeks. Well Done Kane!
Lucy won a special science award for her very clever thinking when we were working on chemical reactions with Miss Trainor. Lucy is very good at explaining how reactions happen and why she thinks they do. Tino Pai Lucy.

Amazing Artisitc Adam

Well done Adam who got our assembly award on Friday. Adam is an amazing artist and has been doing some fantastic clay work at school. Adam's clay dragon looked fantastic, he even managed to build wings out of clay, great work Adam.

Clay Creatures

 

It has been a while since our last blog post! We have been so busy with our art, music and pe that we have not had any time. We made some wonderful clay dragons by rolling a piece of clay around a newspaper 'sausage' and then using what we had learnt about joining clay to add legs, tails, eyes and even wings. Mr Harvey is going to fire them for us in the school kiln this week, we can't wait for them to be finished!

Weird and wonderful wild things

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Printmaking

We have been learning about printmaking and how it is different from other types of artwork. We made cardboard block prints, using koru designs, and used our new school printing press to make amazing white prints on black paper. Here are Soli and Austin hard at work!

Artists in Schools

We are working with 3 artists at our school this term, Kaitrin and Drew are helping us to make puppets. Today we worked with Anna on some music. She is going to be teaching us how to sing with our puppets for a performance.

ART

Yesterday we looked at some paintings by an artist called David Hockney. He uses lots of lines, patterns and texture in his work. We all made a piece of work that had 4 different patterns in bright colours. Then we tore up our work and used the pieces to join into one big artwork. We think that it looks professional and beautiful!

Landscapes

Today we have been learning about landscape art with Mr Arnold. We looked at lots of different types of landscape art work and talked about the things a piece of landscape art may or may not have in it. We worked out that a landscape must have some kind of land form in it, for example hills, mountains, cliffs and lakes, but they could also include things like houses, trees, people and animals so long as the main focus for the art work is the land. We are really looking forward to working on our own landscape artwork.