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.
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.
The Year Ones have made colourful abstract patterned masks. They started with pre-made paper mache’ masks and collaged tissue paper using cellogel, a paper mache’ glue. When dry, they decorated them with paint-pens. They used iPads and the app Drawing Pad to create their masks and patterns digitally.
The Year 4 students have been exploring and creating “gliches” in the iPad artwork.
Adventure Time – Season 5 Episode 15 – A Glitch Is a Glitch
Glitches are the frustrating byproduct of technology gone awry. Wildly scrambled images, frozen blue screens, and garbled sounds signify moments where we want to throw our expensive computer products out the window. Many artists and programmers, however, have embraced these crisis moments and discovered beauty in the glitch. By hacking familiar systems, they intentionally cause glitches, and manipulate them to create art. Enjoying the aesthetics of technological mistakes defies the notion that technology and entertainment has to be a seamless experience. Most importantly, glitch artists reveal a certain soulfulness that emerges when complex streams of information, visual media, and our own lives converge in the chaos of the glitch.
How Does Glitchy Art Show Us Broken Is Beautiful? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios
We all love broken things. WAIT WHAT?! Yes, you read that correctly. You may have noticed this thing called “glitch”, where people purposely push machines to malfunction, creating fascinating “mistakes”. But instead of being frustrated and disdainful of these errors (like we usually do when our technology fails mid-workflow, grrr) we find them to be bizarrely beautiful! Why are we so interested in these images, music, or objects that are structurally or formally broken? Watch the episode and find out!
Entries open: Monday 1 August, 2016
Entries close: Monday 19 September 2016 (5pm, Australian Eastern Standard Time)
We’re pleased to announce that the theme for Screen It 2016 is… Mystery!
What is Screen It?
Fancy yourself a filmmaker? Think you can match Shaun Tan in the animation stakes? Want to show off your skills as a videogame developer? Then get ready to enter this year’s Screen It competition for your chance to create something amazing and win some awesome prizes!
Every year, hundreds of students across the nation enter Screen It – ACMI’s epic moving image competition for Primary and Secondary school students. Screen It is designed to educate, encourage and foster the next generation of young moving image makers. It’s fun and, best of all, it’s free!
Following a rigorous judging process by internal Australian Centre for the Moving Image staff and industry/education professionals, we are pleased to announce that Mackensie was awarded a Special Mention (2nd) in the Junior Live Video section.
A group of Junior School students from Years 3–6 entered the Screen It Competition, a national film, animation and game-making competition for school-aged students. It is designed to encourage imagination and inventiveness in primary and secondary school students. The students were asked to create works responding to the theme ‘Change’.