Farm Inspired Art.

In groups we all wrote about our latest artwork.

 

 

Room 13 have made a farm based piece of art. It includes sheep, hills and trees. We also did a black border, it looked pretty good with our art. The art was based on our topic and camp, then that’s when the art came in. Paige enjoyed making the sheep, Nanoka liked it all and Amber liked doing the apples.

By Paige, Nanoka and Amber.

For our inspiration we came back from camp and did an internet search for farm art. For topic we are doing ‘From Paddock to Plate,’ which is about farming. We found an image that we liked, but we didn’t find out the artist.  We just finished them and they look fantastic. They were actually easy to create because we did them step by step.

By Nick, Bryce and Javarn.

The first part we drew was the hills in pencil. We did this step by step and talked about where each hill could start. Then we added in the outline of the trees. Some parts we didn’t draw in pencil before we painted them, like the clouds.

By Tahlia, Micayela and Jack.

While doing the hills we painted them curved because the hills on our inspiration were curved. We jumped the paint brush up and splodged it down neatly. After the hills we drew the trees (3 were circles and 3 were carrot shaped.)

After that we did the clouds with candle wax. We used it because it made the paper waterproof and when we painted the sky orange the clouds stood out. Some of us had to add some white to make them stand out a bit more. We painted the trees dark green and then used the splodge technique to add some lighter green.
Next we painted the border black and used a careful straight technique (The Mrs Colliss technique).
Next we cut out the sheep and painted then a skin colour and white. We glued these on and drew the faces and legs.
By Nand, Blake and Logan.

We made cute (or ugly) sheep for our art. We for some paper and made a cloud shape. Next we painted the clouds a fleshy colour with white patches and then we stuck them onto our art with PVA glue. Then we painted a tuff of wool where the top of their head would be. Next we used a grey-ish colour for the face. Then we used a barbeque stick to make the tiny eyes. After that we ended up with some fantastic sheep.

By Seth, Kairon and Daniel.

When we do our painting of the border the class was using either the Bryce technique or the Mrs Colliss technique. The Bryce technique is when you go rough and it goes over the line and it is a little bit messy and the paint brush spreads out. Then Mrs Colliss technique is when you are doing it slowly and smoothly and you guide along the line. When you guide along the line you don’t use too much paint, otherwise it will go over the lines. Ashley and Sasha both did the Mrs Colliss technique, Ruby started doing it the Bryce way but changed to the Mrs Colliss way.  

*Bryce was happy to have his method shared, he has now changed to the Mrs Colliss technique ;)

By Ashley, Sasha and Ruby

The first tools we used for our art were a ruler, pencil and eraser to make the border. Then we drew the hills and painted them with red, green and yellow/orange paint. Then we used pencil to draw 3 large circles for the trees. Then we drew 3 medium sized carrots for the other trees. We used candle sticks to draw 5 clouds in our sky and painted over them with yellow paint for the sky. Then we painted the trees green. Next we painted the border black. We got small pieces of paper and used scissors to cut out 3 sheep. We painted them a peach colour. We used PVA glue to stick the sheep onto our art. Then we used a skin colour to do the fluffy head of the sheep and added the face and the ears, we used a kebab stick to paint on the tiny eyes. We then painted 10 apples on our big trees.

By Zoe, Isabelle and Kayla.

These are the steps that we did to create our artwork.

First we did our border and hills in pencil. Next we painted 3 green hills, 3 red and 3 orange hills.
Next we painted the sky and the clouds. The sky was yellow and had a little bit of white mixed in for the clouds.
We drew 3 big circles and 3 pointy trees. We painted these green.
We cut out the cloud shaped sheep and painted these.
Then we put the apples on the apple tree and added the tree trucks.

By Michael, Te Ahu and Anthony.