Yr 2 -Ken Done Reef artwork

The Yr 2 students have been learning about the iconic contemporary artist Ken Done. Ken Done is famous for his bright/vivid child like paintings. Ken Done is known for depicting famous Australian landmarks such as Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney Opera House, Great Barrier Reef.

The students learnt about Ken’s childhood and life as a Designer/Artists, as well as using their observation skills to talk about what he paints in his works of art.

The students were then inspired to create their own ‘Great Barrier Reef’ artwork using oil pastels and water colour wash.

Here are the Yr 2’s reef artwork. I just love the exciting colourful fish and vivid coral reefs, using the oil pastels.

    

Fantastic work everyone!

Miss Manna 🙂

Yr 2 ‘Optical Art’ – Bridget Riley

This term the students learnt about the ‘Optical Art’ movement and the artist ‘Bridget Riley’ and ‘MC Escher’. They explored how optical art is created using lines & shapes to create optical illusions. The students needed to use mathematics/measurement to make their optical artwork.

             Bridget Riley ‘optical art’

Here are the Yr 2’s optical artwork.

Well done everyone! These have turned out really well. They look great next to eachother.

Miss Manna 🙂

Yr 3 ‘Optical Art ‘- Bridget Riley

This term the Yr 3’s have learnt about ‘Optical Art’ movement and the artist ‘Bridget Riley’ and ‘MC Escher’. They explored how optical art is created using lines & shapes to create optical illusions. The students needed to use mathematics/measurement to make their optical artwork.

    Bridget Riley ‘optical art’

Here are the students optical artworks. How good do these look laying next to each other!!!!!!

Well done Yr’3 students. Lots of mathematics needed to measure correctly.

These look great 🙂

Miss Manna

Yr 4/5 – Optical Art

The Yr 4’s and 4/5 classes have been learning about the art movement ‘Op Art’ (optical art) and the artist Bridget Riley & MC Escher.

The mathematical style ‘Optical Art’ was first created by MC Escher in the early 1930’s , he was an expert at creating illusions through the volumes and shapes he included in his illustrations. He was an amazing mathematician and artist and combined his talents to create his famous works.

  Mc Escher

Bridget Riley is a British contemporary ‘Optical artist’  who was inspired by MC Escher’s earlier works. She has develop a more stylized, geometric version of ‘Optical Art’. Her work is mostly black and white large scale paintings and her work is known to cause motion sickness.

Her works are very graphic and are created so your eyes move around and back-and- forth across her paintings. This causes the illusion that they are moving. Our eyes are being tricked!!

                         

The students were asked to create a cube with optical illusions drawn on each side of the cube. They needed to use very careful measurements and ruling up to create straight lines.

Here are some completed works.

WOW!!! what detail and precision with the line work.

Well done everyone!

Miss Manna 🙂

Yr 3 – POP ART – Roy Lichtenstein

The Yr 3 students have been learning about ‘Pop Art’ and the artist Roy Lichtenstein. He is famous for creating large scale paintings and also made sculptures.

He was influenced by cartoon comics and the way they were made using printing machines that produced small dots of colours called ‘Ben-day dots. He created his works as a very large scale paintings. He was criticised during the time of POP ART in the 1950’s to 1960’s for his work; he was told his style of art ‘Is not Art’.

Many ‘Pop’ artworks use mostly primary colours and thick black lines, and the subjects in the artwork are everyday popular objects/items/people.

Whaam! 1963 Roy Lichtenstein 1923-1997 

The students created their own Roy Lichtenstein inspired collage ‘onomatopoeia’ comic book style art.

They needed to select a word that no-one else had and draw it in large bubble writing. Then they needed to draw ‘Ben-day’ dots on the words. All the other parts were drawn and cut out of primary coloured paper and placed to make the composition. Once they were happy all the parts were glued down.

WOW!!!! These are fantastic. Great work everyone.

Miss Manna 🙂

 

Yr 2 ‘POP Art’ – Roy Lichtenstein

The Yr 2 students have been learning about ‘Pop Art’ and the artist Roy Lichtenstein. He is famous for creating large scale paintings and also made sculptures.

He was influenced by cartoon comics and the way they were made using printing machines that produced small dots of colours called ‘Ben-day dots. He created his works as a very large scale paintings. He was criticised during the time of POP ART in the 1950’s to 1960’s for his work; he was told his style of art ‘Is not Art’.

Many ‘Pop’ artworks use mostly primary colours and thick black lines, and the subjects in the artwork are everyday popular objects/items/people.

The students created their own Roy Lichtenstein inspired collage artworks based on his famous ‘Sunrise’ artwork. They needed to draw, cut and paste all the parts to then layout to make the collage ‘sunrise’.

I am so impressed with how amazing these have turned out !!!!!

WOW!!!!

Well done everyone, Miss Manna 🙂

Year 4/5 – Picasso inspired face collages

The Yr 4/5 students learnt about the art movement ‘Cubism’ and the famous artist Pablo Picasso. We looked at how Picasso created multi- angled paintings of people and buildings. He was able to paint portraits with the facial features looking in multiple directions, this made the viewer wonder which direction to look.

After learning about Pablo Picasso the students created their own collage ‘Picasso faces’. They used vibrant oil pastels to colour in and blend together, then they cut out each piece to paste together to create an interesting cubist style face.

   

 

Well done everyone!!!! Very vibrant and interesting expression on the faces.

Miss Manna 🙂

 

Year 2 – Romero Britto inspired art

The year 2 students learnt about the Brazilian Pop/Abstract artist in class. Romero  Britto combines elements of cubism and pop art style painting in his work. He uses vibrant colours and bold patterns as a visual expression, depicting hope, dreams and happiness.

The students then created their own Romero Britto inspired Pop/Abstract art cupcake paintings.

               

Well done everyone.  A wonderful effort 🙂

Miss Manna

 

Yr 2 – Pablo Picasso Collage faces

The Yr 2 students learnt about the art movement ‘Cubism’ and the famous artist Pablo Picasso. We looked at how Picasso created multi- angled paintings of people and buildings. He was able to paint portraits with the facial features looking in different directions, this made the viewer wonder which direction to look.

    ‘Weeping Women’      ‘Women Spanish’

The students created their own portraits, using small pieces of paper to draw facial features and then paste them onto A3 paper. They then needed to add the head and other details, then colour each section in. The collage needed to have the facial features placed in different positions to make the artwork look interesting.

These have turned out fantastic. Well done everyone!!!!

Miss Manna