Lino print stars completed

Here are some of our finished Matariki lino prints and winter night poems:

Completed pastel portraits - looking awesome!

2018 Team Kahu pastel portraits from Edendale Primary School on Vimeo.

Inspired by Canadian artist Sandra Silberzweig and with thanks to Cassie Stephens for her online video tutorial; we spent about three sessions to complete these and the kids really love the results 

(as do I!)

Here's the post of the early stages...

Art inspiration - pastel self-portraits

I love this idea from Cassie Stephen's blog and the children were really keen to have a go!

Video lesson - we used oil pastels instead of chalk pastels, and did our lines with white chalk (which we will go over with black pastel once we finish the colouring, instead of the black glue).

Portraits underway...

White chalk outline first, then begin colouring in - aiming to use analagous.

Black outlines added with black pastel, will do the texture markings in the next session.

Pop art portraits

A bit of a delay with sharing this lesson/unit idea:

Term One had a sketching and portraits focus so we started the term with some pop-art self-portraits (after looking at the different types of portraits that might be produced)...it was a lot of fun and the art is very creative. I got the inspiration from a Facebook post but am not sure whose!

I took black and white photos of the kids then printed them out on A3 - the kids turned them over to trace around their main features and facial shape, neck/shirt etc with pencil.

They then used black crayon to go over the outlines and to split large areas (eg face and hair) with dark lines before using coloured crayons (including white) to draw patterns inside each different space.

Next step was to use bright dyes in each section - don't they look awesome?!

Painting - atmospheric perspective

Term One 2016 - Year 5-6  pupils

Zentangle Broken Dishes

This week the team created their own version of a Zentangle display, which we have called Broken Dishes.

Our inspiration was a photo of a Cinco Mayo quilt from the WonkyWorld blog.  Each pupil had a paper plate with three rings pencilled onto it, and created a Zentangle design.  The plates were then cut into quarters and rearranged on the wall.

Zentangles

Our art focus this term is design and pattern 

and we created these little landscapes using the zentangle style...

Our inspiration was this picture courtesy of blog 'Amoeba Handmade':

Image source

ART - printmaking

Ben Reid

My Pinterest board for printmaking ideas (mainly lino prints)


With my level (Year Six pupils) I am planning to do lino printing...

NZ print-makers (range of print-making techniques):
Ben Reid            Michel Tuffery            Philippa Bentley   

Peter Lendvai                Minu            Vanessa Edwards

Susan Haywood Smith - beautiful NZ birds and motifs, 2-3 colours

                                                   Steev Peyroux - Dunedin peninsula

This British artist shares his experiences of using lino to create prints...


And this slideshow shows how another art teacher creates lino prints...

Marian Johansen-Ellis

I really like this idea on the left (found on Pinterest) as fishing is a big recreational activity in Southland - this artwork links well to the TED video below that explains about the history and method of Japanese Gyotaku (fish printing)...

and I think I might try doing it on paper - pupils can use their own fish design as the basis of their picture and then borrow pieces of other pupils' designs to fill in the gaps...

and maybe also try putting the design onto hessian or calico to make a wall hanging as seen in this Blick art lesson...



This video is a slideshow of a real fish being prepared and printed...


And I think we might also try some 'haunted houses' - printing them on four different coloured papers to create an Andy Warhol style of picture (as seen on this wonderful art blog) and/or print on old book pages...these would be great poem or story-motivators I'm sure!

Houses on book paper

Haunted house

Modern 3/4 portraits

Inspiration for these has come via my favourite art blog Deep Space Sparkle and was ideal for beginning our painting art focus for this term. Ours did not turn out as 'true to type' as what was in the DSS lesson but we are really thrilled with the 'modern' look our portraits have taken on!

In the first week of school we wrote 'I am...' poems and I wanted the pupils to paint portraits of themselves; they have always done full-face portraits so agreed they are ready to try a different angle.

We found these images of self-portraits by Van Gogh on Google images:

First we practised the line drawings as advised by Deep Space Sparkle - we used 1/2 A4 and pencils, doing two attempts before then moving onto A4 paper, first with pencil, then with crayons.

Next, we moved onto A3 black paper (the paint colours we will be using are so bright, we think they will look good on the black paper - it will be something different for a change!)  The outlines were done with white chalk (easy to paint over).

We first painted the faces and features. We aimed to be using short brush strokes like Van Gogh used.

Next we painted the background, our focus being to have a mixture of colours, again with the short brush strokes.

Our next step, once the paint was dry, was to add some highlighting detail with black outlines on the main features - we did this with black oil pastels.

Don't they look fantastic?!

Normally I would launch into a painting unit by first working the children through a couple of sessions of brush techniques and colour mixing.  But for this activity I just wanted to get a quick product so we could display them to make the room colourful and it has also given me a baseline to see what the pupils can do.

As we worked I talked about the importance of proportion (ie large paper, so draw the features much larger) and emphasised the correct way to hold a brush, as well as the use of newspaper to clean the brush before getting the next colour (I do not as a rule use jars of water for cleaning brushes while painting).

I did not really have a set criteria - just wanted the children to do what they could.  We will have more specific learning outcomes as the painting  unit progresses.