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
