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

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 🙂

The Yr 3 students learnt about the art movement ‘Cubism’ focusing on the artworks of Pablo Picasso and the contemporary Canadian ‘Abstract’ artist Sandra Silberzweig.

After discussing how the movement of Cubism came to be (using angled lines and directionality of facial features) and the abstract nature of the colours, lines and patterns in Sandra’s artworks, the students created their own portraits.

They used oil pastels to add the details and patterns then added watercolour washes over the top. WOW!!!!
We also discussed how artists are inspired by other famous artist when creating their own style of art.

  Sandra Silberzweig

  C15 Khalaf

  C14 McMahon

These have turned out amazing everyone. I’m so proud of the details and care you took when creating them !!!!

Miss Manna

  C15 Khalaf

    C14 McMahon

  ‘Wassily Kandinsky’

The Year 3 students learnt about the Russian Artist ‘Wassily Kandinsky’. He had an ability to see different colours when listening to music. Most of his compositions were created whilst listening to various music (jazz, classical…)

One class experimented with blending oil pastels together and the other class experimented with watercolours. They also had to create an interesting composition that lead the eye around the page.

WOW!!!! They have done an amazing effort at creating their artwork.

Well done!!

Miss Manna

At the start of this year I read the book ‘The Dot’ to the class and talked about lines and patterns that repeat in a concentric circle.

They learnt about the art style of Mandala design and it’s origins, why they are created and how they are made. The students then spent several lessons working on their detailed Mandala circles.

These are some of them.

They have done a wonderful job at the line/patterns and colouring in. Well done!!!

Miss Manna

The Year 3/4 classes have been learning about the element of art ‘Value’ ( the darkness/lightness of a hue). They experimented with shading and increasing the values by applying firmer pressure with the 2B lead pencils. Some very neat shading and persistence needed for creating the different values.

Well done everyone! They turned out great 🙂

Miss Manna

The Year 3/4 students have been learning about warm and cool colours. They then created these Hot air balloon mixed media artworks.

They used textas to colour in the warm colours and used paints for the cool sky colours.

They have turned out really well. Great blending of the paints 🙂

Miss Manna

The Year 3/4 students (Semester 1) learnt about 3D sculptures and created their own paper sculptures, with art work inspired by Romero Britto.  They explored line, shape & colour and experimented with turning a 2D piece of art into a 3D artwork, by cutting and folding the paper.

These turned out amazing!!!!