The various body parts of the mini beasts (body, wings, legs, stingers, pinchers) were made from aluminum wire to make an armature. This armature was covered with tissue paper and cellogel (wall paper paste) – at least three to five layers. The following week when the paste had dried the mini beast body parts were hot glued together. The children then added extra patterning with paint pens.
Abstract Acrylic Painting on Black Paper
As an introduction to the unit of work “Pattern and Abstraction” the students created these artworks using a variety of lines, shapes and colour to construct a painting. They drew with white oil pastels on black paper to create the structure of their composition. They coloured with acrylic paint. The children explored and created their own colours, by using using cool red, magenta, cobalt blue, warm yellow and white. They also learnt about the opaqueness of the this type of paint.
Each Prep class group created a painting inspired by the Australian indigenous artist, Minnie Pwerle. The children looked at how she used lines to create simple shapes; circles, ovals, and rectangles. The interior and exterior of these shapes were filled with repeated straight lines or smaller circles of various colours.
We have been using the Art Studio app app on the iPads lately.
This is a great tutorial on how to create a cartoon portrait using “layers”.