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 🙂

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 🙂

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 🙂

The Yr 1 class earlier this term learnt about Indigenous Aboriginal art and how and why they were created. We read several dreamtime stories and learnt about some symbols used to tell stories. The students then experimented making their own Aboriginal inspired artwork.

Well done everyone. Lots of care taken when placing the dots together!

Miss Manna 🙂

The year ones learnt about the artist Henri Matisse and how he invented the art of paper cut collage. The students drew organic shapes and cut them out and glued them down, to create their own Henri Matisse inspired art. 

Henri Matisse Artwork

These look fabulous!!!!

The year 2 students have been learning about the Artist Paul Klee and how he used bright colours and geometric shapes to create his work. The students took great care in drawing their cities, then used oil pastels and paint to complete the composition.

WOW! So colourful and detailed. Well done 🙂

The students read the story ‘The Dot’ By Peter H. Reynolds. We then discussed that a line begins with a dot and focused on the element of line. The students then created their own DOTS.

Well done, they look great!!!!

The students learnt about the artist Paul Klee and read the story ‘The cat and the bird’ based on his own artwork of his pet cat.

The students then created their own version of ‘The bird and the Cat’ painting by Paul Klee.

They are wonderful, well done!