Year 6

On this very chill and fun friday, we wanted to brighten our Mothers Days with some flowers to spoil our mums. Flowers that will never wilt and die, but will show our eternal love and appreciation for all the wonderful female role models in our lives. 

We started by a freehand demonstration my me to show the students that nothing in nature ever looks totally the same, and petals and leaves can look so different from different angles. 

The students then studied photos of bouquets online and found images of the flowers either they or their Mum liked. 

We looked at Positive and negative space and how to plan out an arrangement using circles and or ovals to fill a space and create balance. 

With the Oil Pastels, we learnt to let go of trying to create perfect intricate detils and more, showcasing colour and shadow for dimensional flowers! 

I am very sad that I didnt get end result photos for this as the children took them home to Mum, But I think you can see how TOTALLY AMAZING this class did today. Im impressed to say the very least !

I was unbelieveably excited for this day, but then Auckland happened, and it poured with rain. And for anyone that knows, PVA glue only likes to dry fast in the summer! Yay...... not. So all the amazing hard work these students put in, still needs to be completed, so stay tuned this term! 

Process: 

• Explain what low relif sculpture is (we used paper towel rolls) 

• Look at art similar. 

• Choose a culture that inspires you to draw from and create a symmetrical / one or radial from that culture. Some were European, Asian, Indian among a few 

• Create lines of symmetry

• Use cardboard cut slices to manipulate and create an image, pattern or scene

• PVA glue 

• Paint when dry (which we still need to finish) 

Todays focus was primarily on creating symmetry and understanding line to create shape (sometimes its tricky to think outside the box and create something intricate from a bunch of similar sized circles) 

SO.... Dispite the day beating us down, this class created some beautiful work, the detail and though from the students was super cool to see and I can't wait to see them finished with colour, dot and pen work for more detail! 

These have to be the most harmonious, tranquil looking scenes I've seen in a long time. The skies, sunsets and hues make me want to keep them all. 

We created something a little less typical for ANZAC commemorations this year. & what a job this class did! 

• Process: 

• blending and painterly strokes for horisons, skies, sunsets, creative freedom was given 

• scattered dabbind, scumbling for clouds 

• messy greens for hills, to add texture

• painting different sized imperfect red, orange, crimson blobs for perspective poppy fields 

• oil pastel stems and leaves 

• 3D Modelling paste for Poppies close to us 

BLOWN AWAY