K – 2 Artists of the Week

This week’s Artists of the Week are Aidan Ho-Shon (1W), Zack Kristallis (1W), Alex Nicholias (KL) and Charlie Kirakau (1W). Aidan demonstrated his understanding of aerial view perspective in the completion of a puzzle. He cleverly used drawn symbols to represent landmarks such as trees and buildings. Zack also investigated aerial view perspective, this time using a cut/paste collage technique to make a picture of a River Market. Zack deserves special commendation for completing this detailed work within the lesson time frame. Alex explored the idea of self-portraiture by colouring to add shadows to a black and white photo of himself then tracing the shape of his face in soft pencil. Charlie carefully examined the colours and shapes in the painting by Henri Matisse titled ‘The Goldfish’ and painted his own version using water colour paint.

Debbie Bourke
K-2 Art Teacher

3 – 6 Artists of the Week

This week ‘Artist of the Week’ is brought to you by Year 5 – Sydney Suns by John Olsen. Students observed the painting ‘Sydney Sun’, and completed a ‘step inside’ thinking routine. They put themselves in the picture and were able to deduct from the images what John Olsen was really painting about.

The boys were asked to draw their version of the ‘Sydney Sun’ using images about their own journey and what they see and feel in the summer holidays. They completed this work with an assortment of different materials, poster paint, spray water colours and crushed up chalk pastels.

Congratulations to Stirling Smith, James Hewish and Edward Neale for their beautiful and interesting artworks.

Also from Year 5 ‘Ceramic Rockets’. The boys worked hard with clay slabs and joining techniques to enhance their learning about Space. They observed different rocket technology in the 1960s, and made whimsical and colourful cartoon rockets.

Congratulations to Michael Malafouris, Will Douglas and Dylan Sleet for these amazing sculptures.

Year 6 were lucky enough to have a live model come and pose for them last week. Mr Lillicot is a professional artist model and posed as a Roman Warrior to complete the unit on ‘Strength’ and ‘Warriors’.

Boys completed 4 or 5 sketches using different materials and techniques. Some of these are displayed next to the sports notice board. Well done Year 6.

Meredith Buining
3-6 Art Teacher