New Book Covers!

Each September GWA artists look forward to creating a new cover for their art books. It's exciting to see how students have grown as artists each year. Because students are so proud of their Art books and the art and learning inside them, these covers are a very important way to share learning. Parents, please take a look at the ''About GWA Art' tab for more information on our Art books. Here are some of this year's new designs:

Grade 2: 'Ish' portraits inspired by Peter H. Reynolds' book, Ish. 

Students practised touching their face to identify the shape and looking at themselves in the mirror to draw a self-portrait.

Grade 3 : More 'Ish' portraits inspired by Peter H. Reynolds' book, Ish.  

Grade 3 students are still working on completing theirs. They paid particular attention to the patterns they used.  It was especially inspiring to see the students gain confidence, even though some were initially nervous about creating the portraits! Next day these students will add water colour paint to finish them off!

Grade 4: Mannequin Study 

Students are working with mannequins for their covers. Students were challenged to position the mannequin in a way that showed something about themselves. Their final piece of work was to show movement through their use of pattern and line. 

Grade 1 Dream Houses

 

Grade 1 students read The Big Orange Splot this week. Students were enthusiastic as they saw the people on Mr Plumbean's street transform their homes into their dream houses. We also looked at The work of artist and architect, Friedensreich Hundertwasser. We have started to paint our dream houses, inspired by his organic shapes, colours and patterns. We're off to a great start!

Grade 1 students read The Big Orange Splot this week. Students were enthusiastic as they saw the people on Mr Plumbean's street transform their homes into their dream houses. We also looked at The work of artist and architect, Friedensreich Hundertwasser. We looked at some of the nature inspired dream houses that he designed as well as his paintings of homes.

Leapin' Lizards

In this fun lesson, ASA students drew an animal that we often find in the desert and in our backyards. Here are our lizards, drawn with oil pastel and coloured with chalk pastels.

Paul Klee Inspired Portraits

Grade 5 students are exploring the power that lines and shape have to create emotions in art. We have explored art by a Swiss expressionist painter and graphic artist, Paul Klee. We investigated the style shapes and lines that made us feel positive emotions and negative emotions. We are now using oil pastels to create our own self portraits.

• Below are two paintings by Paul Klee.
• What kinds of lines do you see?
• What kinds of shapes are in the art? How do the paintings make you feel?

'Woman in Peasant Dress'

'Siblings'

Share your answers in the comment box below!
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Here are a few pictures of some finished art!
Can you tell what the feeling is that the artist expressed?