Room 22- Day 2 

Aborigional Art (Australia)- My Meeting Place 

Covering many amazing cultures this term, I wanted to cover our closest neighbours. Most of my family are from Australia & I have just started learning about the rich history of the indigenous people of the land. 

I follow many talented Aboriginal artists on Social Media & wanted to draw from these ladies for inspiration on creating "my meeting place" art 

We watched some YouTube videos & planned our story to tell. 

Love the colours these came out & the thought and stories behind them 

Process: 

• draft 'your story' on scrap paper, 

• watercolour palette - wet on wet

• transfer loosely your shapes to the A3 page 

• using the same colour palette adding acrylic paint to add painterly and another layer of blended mixed colours (students struggled with this step - this defied everything theyve always learnt - paint neatly, stay in the lines, be careful 

• when they finally let go it was so fun! 

• Go in with paint pens to add the connection lines, meeting places and important symbols that tell our story

room 21 

My Story - Weaving Lesson 

After talking to an amazing Teacher who is also a Parent of the school, I wanted to create a weaving lesson with our seniors. We talked about how people to weave to tell a story or communicate a message. So I asked, "whats yours?, what do you want to say?" 

We learnt about the part of weaving 

The Loom, Warp, Weft & Shuttle & created our own. 

The motion of over, under and opposites for the reverse way. 

Chose colours to represent our message or significant things in our life & really got into it for the day. 

It was so cool to see how engaged and dedicated these students were to create and communicate their story through this old but valuable art skill 

Take a look at our progress !, this one was a little of an overshot and may need to be finished at another time. 

Room 23 (day 2) 

Te reo Māori non-objective compositions

I wanted to produce something (again) more local to Aotearoa and embrace the rich culture of our Land. We looked at many different Maori patterns and their meanings, some of which are pretty cool! Simple but you can see the symbolism easily! Great for smaller artists to grasp too. 

We took an A3 and squared it using rulers , hehe they had to do Math today too :) We then used multiple intersecting lines to create many parts (not too many) and then chose a colour palette to work with. 

The meduim today was watercolour and I almost expected the class to just go all in and make a mess but they suprised me by taking their time and creating much more thought out and tonal pieces, and exceptionally neat too. 

We then used paint markers to add lines back to our sections and freehand our designs from the inspiration images around the room. 

Added shadowing using watercolour pencil to make the white or black really pop and finished of with chalk pastel smudging for more depth. 

They were totally shocked when I started hacking mine to pieces with the Guillotene and thought I'd ruined my work but to their suprise they actually loved it more when arranged totally random, it then took away from any small imperfections they saw and create more visual to look at all over! 

Everyone decided to follow (they had a choice not to) and i'm not mad about it, hands down my favourite piece I've created in the last few weeks! 

CHECK THEM OUT 

ROOM 22

MONOCHROMATIC ANIMALS - Self choice 

Another day, another awesome senior class session. Room 22 was so cool, calm and collected I almost thought I was being Punk'd! What an amazing bunch of tamariki, but hey, their teacher is kinda epic too! 

I wanted to focus on Value and building depth & detail with this. I thought choosing a fun animal would be a great way to do this since they have so many featutres we could focus on. I printed over 30 images and some children even requested their own which was a nice contribution. 

We learnt how to look for value in images (light and shade) & outlining these. The shading techniques we focussed on were blending, hatching. cross hatching, stippling and scrumbling. It was amazing to see so many children use these techniques and let go of 'drawing' 

We finished the mono chrome theme with self mixing greyscale abstract backgrounds. 

I saw this idea from the amazing "The Art Scoula" And am impressed by the abundance of skillset in this year 6 class. 

Thank you for a fantastic day! 

Process: 

• Quick tutorial and activity on shading (value)

• Choose an animal photo of their choosing 

• trace animals defined lines and shaded areas with Baking Paper

• Scribble on back to create an image transfer

• Shade transferred image using the learnt techniques & photo as a guide

• Use eraser to create highlights

• Paint background with monochrome mixed colours

Room 23

Water Marbled NZ Moth Pen Drawings

During the weekend, a huge and I mean MONSTER Moth was on my curtain in our rumpus room. Even though I am deathly afraid of them, I watched and looked at this one, It was an Owl Moth, it was astoundingly beautiful. So when I knew I was coming to teach Year 6 I knew I could use this a subject matter for something really detailed and impressive. Mrs L already told me how talented her class was, and boy! she was not wrong.
We had a blast learning how to water Marble & the children took a unique and careful interest when studying the bodies, wings and antennae of the NZ moth. I am beyond amazed at these! 

Process: 

• Water Marbling with Chalk Pastels 

• Studied the shapes and patterns of Moths of Aotearoa 

• Learnt about stipling, hatching and cross-hatching to add detailed shading when drawing in pen

• Adding permanent (thicker) marker on the under sides of the Moth to give an effect of depth