4 Medium Challenge

Grade 4 students have been exploring many different meduims used to create art. Today, they were challenged to create a piece of art using at least 3 different mediums. They were asked to complete an observational drawing and explain why they chose each medium.

Here are a few of the amazing artworks! 

Salt on water colour paint created a bumpy texture for the basket ball!

This students used oil pastel for the leaves and chose water colour paint for the background to create shadows -and because it was easy to paint around the many edges! 

Permanent marker was used to draw the container. Water colour pencils helped to create highlights and shadows. 

Going Bananas

More Chemical Reactions in Grade 4!

Here GWA artists created art on bananas by poking holes with a pin, (much like a tatoo artist does!) After a moment the mark began to oxidize! 

Exploring Mediums

Grade 4 students are exploring the question, "How does the medium we choose affect our final art work?". We tried making marks with many different kinds of mediums: oil pastels, markers, sharpies, water colour pencils and colouring pencils.

Some reflections:

• Pencils are better for making detailed pictures! -Alex
• Oil pastels are better for colouring in things quickly. -Teja
• Oil pastels create different textures! -Nishka
• Oil pastels can be blended. Paint cant. -Dylan
• It's easier to draw details with colouring pencils and permanent markers. -Quinten & Maria
• Markers give you more control. -Sirine
• Permanent markers were darker than the normal markers. -Amelie
• Oil pastels can give dark marks or light marks -Vazir

Next students added water on top of the marks to see what happened. They made a guess about what they thought would happen first.

• The markers almost disappeared. -Romy
• The water colour pencils blended into the water. 
• The permanent markers didn't change! - 
• I thought that the water pencils would not blend with the water. -Injoon and lots of other people!

Marvelous Moving Art

This week in grade 4, students are investigating the work of American artist, Alexander Calder, who has created many beautiful sculptures including his famous mobiles. Today the first class of Grade 4 students studied Calder's use of line, shape and movement so that they could design moving sculptures of their own.

A few reflections:
It was fun to trace the lines of Calder's wire sculptures such as 'Elephant'.
I learned how to use round-nose pliers to bend the wire. It was challenging.
I want to make my work neater next day.
We learned how to handle wires safely.
I loved learning about how easy it is to make beautiful sculptures like these!

Test your observation skills with this puzzle that will introduce you to some other great artists and sculptures! Click the link below.

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