Art Term 2 2025
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ART ROOM NEWS BULLETIN
Congratulations to four students from St Josephs who have had their 2024 artwork selected from many thousands, to feature in the MACS Education Week Student Art Exhibition to be held during Education Week in East Melbourne. The 2024-2025 artworks are featured below.
ART 2025
Students from all year levels started off the 2025 year with a colourful creation representing the
Year of The Snake. They are now working on their major artwork for Term 1 with our theme
“Under The Sea”
Prep Students are creating colourful shape fish inspired by Cubist artist Pablo Picasso. Using a variety of shapes in different sizes and colours, their shape fish are nearing completion and will be mounted and framed in readiness for our Art Show
Year One and Two Students have undertaken a Print-making challenge inspired by Australian print maker Margaret Preston. They are designing, and creating their own printing plates from foam board, depicting fish, seaweed, bubbles and other sea creatures. These designs are printed onto coloured paper of their choice, before being carefully cut out. Students are then painting a background of a coral reef using vibrant water-colours and food dyes. The prints are collaged onto the backgrounds to form beautiful representations of the coral reef. These artworks are being mounted and framed for the Art Show.
Year Three and Four students are creating self-portraits of themselves swimming under water. Using wax crayon and water resist techniques, students design , draw and colour their portrait before applying an ink wash to represent the water. The resulting portraits, are colourful artworks that are being mounted and framed for the Art Show.
Year Five and Six students have been learning ceramic slab-building techniques to create sea creatures from air-dried clay. Students firstly design their sea creature with Raak-like pattern and line detail. They then create a cardboard template, and using rolling pins and a variety of clay tools students, create clay representations of their designs. These are dried and painted with water colour before mounting and framing.
NEWS FROM THE ART ROOM
Congratulations are in order to the ninety students from St Joseph’s Primary
School, who will have their beautiful artwork exhibited at the Zart Art Student
Gallery over Terms Three and Four. The artworks on display, were all on view
at our recent Art Show and include samples from the categories below
Judi Robertson
NEWS FROM THE ART ROOM
As Term Two draws to a close, students from all Year levels are busily completing artworks in readiness for our Gala Art Show which will be held in Week 2 of Term Three on Thursday July 25th
PREP students have created spectacular and colourful Cubist-style animal faces inspired by Pablo Picasso. Zebras, Lions, Giraffes and Elephants have been made using a variety of hand-coloured shapes .
YEAR ONE & TWO students Have been busily creating magnificent Hawaiian Tiki Masks which will be displayed as Totem poles at the Art Show. Having designed each mask in their Visual Art diaries, students used coloured paper and cardboard to crate each authentic mask in the Hawaiian Tiki style.
YEAR THREE & FOUR students have completed their detailed printed Still Life representation inspired by Australian Printmaker Margaret Preston. These artworks involved students in designing and making Foam printing plates for each vase, flower and leaf represented in the artwork. The collaged artwork also features a variety of table clothes created from Vietnamese Rice Papers. Year Three & Four students have also used air-dried clay to create 3D Leaf plates.
YEAR FIVE & SIX students have been studying The Scream by Edvard Munch and created their own authentic artwork inspired by his painting style and featuring One Point Perspective.
MACS Annual Art Exhibition Winners
NEWS FROM THE ART ROOM TERM1 2024
NEWS FROM THE ART ROOM
Students in all classes are very busily engaged in studying specific artists and art styles and in
creating 2D artworks that reflect their understanding. Congratulations must also go to the 100
students from St Joseph’s who have artwork selected for display at the Zart Student Gallery over
Semester 2.
YEAR ONE & TWO
Year One and Two students are studying the portraiture of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. They have created backgrounds for their portraits based on the artist’s love of nature, using a variety of papers and colours. The self portraits will be created using oil pastel and when complete, will be collaged onto the beautiful nature backgrounds.
YEAR PREP
Prep students are studying the artwork of Cubist artist Paul Klee. They have been busy creating a cubist background using cool colours of tissue paper, and overlapping these to create subtle shapes. They then embarked on a cubist-style portrait using mixed drawing media and warm colours. The Klee-style portraits reflect the shapes the artist used to create his famous artworks.
YEAR THREE & FOUR
Year Three and Four students are studying the portraiture of Vietnamese artist Van Tho who used
warm and cool colours to create emotive portraits. They have followed a detailed design process
and decided what emotion they want their portrait to show. The portraits are being completed using
vibrant oil pastels and collaged onto kraft paper backgrounds.
YEAR FIVE & SIX
Year Five and Six students are using the One Point Perspective drawing skills that they masted in Semester One. They are drawing, then painting Impressionist Landscapes using box board and acrylic paint. Studying the Impressionists, students learnt that they painted quickly to capture a fleeting impression of the light on a landscape. Their modern impressionist techniques include painting using scruched foil and cotton buds, as well as brushes, to paint quickly and capture the landcape image they selected.
NEWS FROM THE ART ROOM
Students in all classes are very busily engaged in creating 3D sculptures which, along with the 2D
work created in Term One, will feature at our Gala Art Show at the end of Term Two. Every family
will receive an invitation to the Art show in the near future.
Prep students have been engaged in sustainable Art Practice, using recycled plastic bottles to
create colourful Bottle Monsters. The Preps are developing their cutting skills along with learning
the skill of Paper Mache to create their sculptures featured below.
Year One and Two students are creating Indigenous-inspired native animals using recycled small
bottles, cardboard tubes and styrene foam balls. The constructed animals are paper mached with
tissue paper and decorated with features inspired by Indigenous artists.
Year Three and Four students are using aluminium armature wire and stocking fabric to bend and
mould their Abstract Bird sculptures. The sculptures are mounted on a semi-spherical base, painted
and attached to a black base board. The abstract birds are then decorated with beads, feathers and
paper to complete the sculptures, each of which has its own personality.
Year Five and Six students are creating shrouded figure sculptures using a complex process that
involves making and filling a wire armature in the shape of a figure; applying paper mache with
white tissue paper, painting a black base on which to stand the sculpture, and finally adding a
muslin shroud. Some examples appear below.
ART WORK TERM 1 2023
Students Artwork On Display
Student artwork from St Josephs Primary School is now on display at the Zart Student Gallery
On-line link to the Gallery
https://www.zartart.com.au/zartstatic/static-page-types/gallery-2018-term-2
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