Art Days

On Thursday and Friday of last week we had an art adventure.

We started off the day finishing our sunflower painting. These were done using Indian ink and water colour paint. They were observational drawing based on the sunflowers we have grown in our class.

We read the book The Nickle Nackle Tree by Lynley Dodd, the same author as Hairy Maclary. We drew some of the birds from the book, painted them bright, bold colours, outlined them with vivid and carefully cut them out. We carefully glued them onto our giant tree that we made. We added the final details with vivid.

In the afternoon, a visiting art teacher came and took us on an art adventure, we couldn’t make a mistake. We had to divide the page into 9 squares. In the top left we did a scribble without taking the crayon off the page. The middle top we took or crayon for a walk, all the lines had to be straight. The top right was fill of spirals, we couldn’t lift the pencil off the page. The middle square had 4 lines which made a mountain and a river. On either side we extended the lines. On the bottom left and right we drew some sunflower leaves, and again we couldn’t take the crayon off the page. In the final square we had drew 2 koru.

In the top 3 squares we could only use blue and white paint. We had to mix them to make shades so you could see the pattern. It was really tricky but everyone did a great job.

For the middle 3 square we carried on doing the sky with the blue and white. For the hills we added in yellow paint, and had to mix our own greens, so we got a range of colours and showed textures with the colours.

The final 3 squares we did the background green and then coloured the objects with red and yellow paint.

We are really proud of what we came up with. It was cool how they looked really random to start with then they came together and looked awesome.

On Friday afternoon 6 room 13 people got to go and do an extra art session with Rei. These people were Kayla, Kimberley, Samantha, Jonathan, Te Ahu and Kairon. During this session they used sign maker vinyl to make Taradale inspired tiles. An interesting fact for the vinyl was, every square metre of it is worth $1000. They will be finishing these off next term.

It was a great art day and a bit J