Room 18 - day two

ANZAC Day Remembrance Landscapes

With ANZAC Day approaching in Aotearoa, we talked about its importance to our Nation and why we commenorate our soldiers. I've done so many Anzac art pieces in the past but this is by far my favourite! 

They all came out so peaceful & beautiful but theres something emotional and moving about them too. My year 5's today captured the fields of Gallipoli perfectly. 

Lest we forget <3

Process: 

• Trace a wood round for the A3 shape circle

• use black and white paint, loaded on the brush to create a monochromatic background, moody, glooomy with lots of tones. The focus was consistent directional brush strokes - horizontal or hatched

• messily create an A6 piece with watercolours of red, yellow and black as our painted paper for collaging later 

• rip A4 printer paper, hold the landscape shapes and pull pastels (oil or chalk) down and smudge before moving your paper, creating a shadow of land with a organic crisp edge 

• Paint load with reds and browns to create poppys, small strokes to leave multiple tones present 

• Pastel in multiple colour greens for stems, different directions & extra blades 

• cut watercolour paper in the shape of inconsistent leaves and create bigger poppys around the edge of the artwork, adding pastel colours (black red) for details 

The Creative Process: 

ROOM 19 (DAY 2)

Painted Te Reo Māori Kupu (words)

I wanted to incorporate some Te Reo Māori culture into todays painting. At home we are trying to learn new kupu to teach our son bi-lingual languages & I thoroughly enjoy it. I wanted room 19 to be exposed to some new language that isn't the surface level kia ora, e noho, e tu etc that we use a lot. 

I borrowed some amazing books from a member of my family & found some awesome and inspiring Māori Kupu in them. I shared then with room 19 and they all chose one they resonated with and wanted to use in their everyday language. They learnt something else other than a painting technique! It was so fun today getting messy and not focussing on perfection. Squint a little to read our abstract warm and cool word grids! 

Process: 

• Learn and write down your kupu of choice (see list for inspiration)

• Calculate, measure and rule up the grid based on how many letters your kupu had (4, 6, 8, 10) 

• Draft your words in CAPITALS & then create block or bubble letters from this 

• Warm colours first- children chose where they wanted to paint it- creative freedom of placement and colours (all or some)

• Use painterly strokes by paint loading and using small swipes using a flat brush

• Alternate with Cool colours next 

• when dry, attack with oil pastels for dimension! - add the definition in English somewhere and make it a little messy! 

ĀTAAHUA = BEAUTIFUL.                                                                               HARIKOA= HAPPY

HARIKOA = HAPPY                                                                                            MOEMOEĀ= DREAM 

TIMATA= BEGIN OR START                                                                              TUAHANGATA= HERO (MALE)

WAIMARIE = LUCKY / FORTUNATE.                                                              MOEMOEĀ= DREAM 

MOEMOEĀ= DREAM.                                                                                        MIHARO= AWESOME, GOOD JOB! 

TĀTAHI = BEACH / SEASIDE                                                                            KAITIAKI= GUARDIAN OR PROTECTOR

KAIĀRAHI = LEADER                                                                                         HARIKOA= HAPPY 

KAITIAKI= GUARDIAN OR PROTECTOR                                                     KAIĀRAHI = LEADER     

KĀINGA = HOME                                                                                               TAMARIKI - YOUNG PERSON

AROHANUI = MUCH LOVE                                                                              HĀKARA= FEAST 

TĀKAORO = PLAY.                                                                                          MĀRAMA = LIGHT, BRIGHT, UNDERSTAND

ĀTAAHUA - BEAUTIFUL                                                                                    ĀTAAHUA - BEAUTIFUL 

ĀTAAHUA - BEAUTIFUL                                                                                    ĀTAAHUA - BEAUTIFUL 

Room 18  

Mixed Media Bees & Hives! 

Well, We all know the LOVELY Teacher of this class loves Bees! & I am trying to pick subject matter to really get the Tamariki skills to shine through. Art days that don't focus on perfection but more about releasing their own creative flair, using imagination and exploring through many art forms. 

Today was a mult-step layering process where I told the students the materials they had on hand and that they needed layers! They completely shocked me on the ways they used them & the dimension they created. 

Lastly we learnt about the dip&flip method of wet on wet painting & creating shadow and highlight. 

Super proud of these year 5's 

Process:

• Layering ripped coloured paper and old books for variety

• Bubble wrap paint stamping with hive colours

• Hexagon tessellation patterns and choice of many media to create honey comb 

• Chalk Pastel to 'dirty' up the page

• Image Transferring of Bee positions

• Black lining 

• Wet on wet painting of bees 

• Paint pens to add final details 

• Pasted shadowing 

Room 17 

Remarkable Tint and shade Landscapes

We all have places that hold significance in our hearts, and a huge positive about living in such a culturally diverse country is that we get to share these things with our peers. Today we looked at Landmarks that we resonate with, albiet, some more significant than others! Apparently we have a lot of Parisians in the house! I wanted the children to learn about colour mixing and how to tint and shade their favourite colours to create dimension, will be developed later on in the year. Look how eye-catching these turned out, displayed in our beautiful library with the BEST LIBRARIAN out there :) you know who you are!

Process:

• Look at memorable/ significant landscape 

• Divide the page into 5ths at least, creating levels of intrest 

• Choose colour

• Add white to tint

• Add Black to  tone  

• Create depth
  
  

Room 19

Henri Matisse Style Koi Fish Ponds 

I took a trip to The Auckland Zoo & equally love Koi fish. I thought this would fit beautifully with this terms Inquiry topic too. Taking inspiration from many amazing Pinterest photos/ Instagram artists, my group of year 5's blew all expectations of this out of the water! What they have created are the calmest, most harmonious displays of Japanese Koi I ever did see! Easily my favourite class window to walk passed! Many things learnt today, my favourite being direction of strokes and adding black to wet paint for dimension.

Process: 

• sketching, shapes of Koi fish & Lily Pads

• Blending paint - cool hues - using strokes that flow around the subjects outlines to immitate water

• Adding white to alter blue / green / purple tones and create reflection in the 'water'

• Adding black to wet paint to create shadow/ depth 

• Oil Pastel blending