Year Two – Human Movement

In Term 1, the children learn how Human Movement can be used in artwork. The human form is one of the most interesting and rewarding subjects an artist can draw and yet one of the most difficult. These works were created on iPads using the art app Art Studio. Firstly, the children took photos of themselves or others in an action pose. These photos were imported into the app and a “layer” created over the top of the image. The children drew on this “layer” until they had completed their drawing. The photo is then deleted and their tracing drawing remains. This is work from the first two lessons.

The artist Fernand Léger will be viewed, discussed and used as inspiration, especially his circus and carnival artwork from the 1950’s.

   

Year 2 Self Portraits using iPads

In Term 1, the children learnt how self-portraits can be created digitally on iPads. These works were created using the art app Art Studio. Firstly, the children took photos of themselves. These photos were imported into the app and a “layer” created over the top of the image. The children drew on this “layer” until they had completed their drawing with thin black line. The photo is then deleted and their tracing drawing remains. The process is then repeated with their line drawing imported and a “layer” is added over the top of this image. The children then colour using a range of brushes, paints, pens, and spray effects.

 This is work from the first two or three lessons; most are not finished as the children want to keep working on them.

Art Studio – an iPad app overview.

Year One Mini Beasts

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The various body parts of the mini beasts (body, wings, legs, stingers, pinchers) were made from aluminum wire to make an armature. This armature was covered with tissue paper and cellogel (wall paper paste) – at least three to five layers. The following week when the paste had dried the mini beast body parts were hot glued together. The children then added extra patterning with paint pens.

Layered tape paintings on canvas boards

Basically, it’s a matter of painting, adding tape, painting, taking some or all the tape off, adding more tape, painting more, taking some or all the tape off, adding more tape,  more painting, and on and on. At the end, the last layer of tape is removed to reveal the layered designs. It’s simple, but very, very effective. We painted acrylic on canvas boards.  The students had a great time seeing the results when it came time to take off the last pieces of tape.

 

 

Year One Abstract Acrylic Painting on Black Paper

Year One
Abstract Acrylic Painting on Black Paper
2017

As an introduction to the unit of work “Pattern and Abstraction” the students created these artworks using a variety of lines, shapes and colour to construct a painting. They drew with white oil pastels on black paper to create the structure of their composition. They coloured with acrylic paint. The children explored and created their own colours, by using using cool red, magenta, cobalt blue, warm yellow and white. They also learnt about the opaqueness of the this type of paint.

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Prep Art – Line, Shape and Colour

Each Prep class group created a painting inspired by the Australian indigenous artist, Minnie Pwerle. The children looked at how she used lines to create simple shapes; circles, ovals, and rectangles. The interior and exterior of these shapes were filled with repeated straight lines or smaller circles of various colours.

 

 

Anna Walker – process of a Book Illustrator.

Mr Huff

Mr. Huff is a story about the clouds and the sunshine in each of our lives.

In the following images I have shown how I went about creating the picture book of Mr Huff.

The idea came from a tiny sketch in my visual diary. I had drawn what it feels like to be worried. I thought it would be an interesting idea to explore in a picture book.

Experimentation with textures

Creating a story board. While writing this book I think I made approximately twelve mock ups (dummies) of the book and in between the dummies I would revise the draft two or three times.

I learnt etching techniques from my studio buddies, Elizabeth Barnett and Georgia Janetzki.

Much patience is required for printmaking. There were many accidents, mostly bad but some good!

An early colour version of the background.

Trying my hand at wood block printing. It seemed like a great idea until I realised how many trees I had to carve out!

Practising printing the trees on rice paper.

Hmmmm. What should Bill wear?

It’s fun making tiny paper clothes for the figures!

Bill’s bed spread.

A wooly Huff to keep me company.

Once the final illustration is scanned you can barely tell that so many elements were used to create the piece.

© 2017

Art Studio – an iPad app

We have been using the Art Studio app app on the iPads lately.

This is a great tutorial on how to create a cartoon portrait using “layers”.

David Hockney: Fleurs Fraîches …… Dessins sur iPhone et iPad