room 3 - day 2 

Indian Elephants

Room 3 love animals, and since were celebrating cultures, we looked at the indian culture and how important Elephants are for their celebrations. 

Process: 

• paint the background using your chosen colour and tinting it lighter to make different monochromatic shades 

• collage with old book pages & paint scrape over the top for texture - white and black mixed to get shades og grey 

• look at line and create line in the sections of the background. 

• cut out elepgant component shapes and assemble 

• add celebration and festival designs 

ROOM 2

KIND & HAPPY TIGERS 

I went to the Zoo recently and saw the most beautiful tiger there. I also keep reading these cool stories at bedtime that seem to have kind and happy tiger characters in them. 

I saw a post from another wonderful art teacher recently that made tigers with Y3 students, so I wanted to give it a try with the awesome Room 2, they were 100% up for the challenge. This was an art project that the boys were happy about too! 

We did a lot of steps and many art processes today, they should all be so proud of their work! 

Process: 

• Sketching a tiger - looked at size and proportion- to fill our A3 page

• Mixing green yellow and white paint for the background 

• Mixing orange, golden and white for the tiger using small strokes with a flat brush

• creating a warm and cool watercolour page, drawing over with similar colour pastels when dry for texture 

• cutting out shapes- scissor skills 

• adding lighter parts for nose and belly 

• pastel for face and body details 

• Pasting our flowers and leaves for a jungle theme! 

room 1 

Mixed Media Warbirds 

This weekend, I attended the NZ warbirds show with my whanau. It never ceases to amaze me, watching the old planes doing those aerial acts and shows for everyone! My children were in awe the entire time. 

I thought of using this experience & showing my videos I shot as inspiration. I knew it would be something to engage the boys especially. 

We made little wooden model planes and these amazing layered backgrounds and the children finished with adding their 3D piece to their art to finish it off. 

I had a wonderful day & what was even better, was it was one lovely young mans first day of school! Art on Day 1, COOOOOOOL! 

Process: 

• Made model plane from pegs and sticks & base painted them white 

• Blue and white acrylic paint was used to blend and give plenty of 'sky' colour to their page

• grey paint to bubble wrap and randomly placed throughout for 'cloud' texture

• white crepe paper scrunched and glued for more 'cloud' layers

• white paint pen lines for wind and movement lines

• glitter swipes, just because! 

• Chalk pastel around the plane and for the jet streams to give dimension when smudged out 

• Off cuts used as who doesnt like a rainbow jet stream?!

Room 3 

Symmetrical Summer Butterflies 

We read a beautiful story about butterflies, and since its summer time we see them everywhere for fluttery inspiration ! 

Our Process-

• sketching one side - looking at body parts 

• Carefully painting line by line

• Pressing to print on the other side

• Oil Pastel

• Coloured dye 

ROOM 4 

Watercolour Nature Prints 

We took a nature walk around the school to find some magical creatures that live among us, chatted about how we need to protect them and the jobs they do to keep our world a better place. 

Process: 

• Nature Walk to see what is around us 

• Photos of bugs we found

• Looking at shapes in Nature

• Tracing shapes onto background 

• Learning about warm and cool colours to Watercolour our background 

• Contrasting colours 

• Making cardboard prints to block 

• Print making with black acrylic paint 

• Adding details to bugs with pastel