Year 2 worked really hard yesterday afternoon completing their fish sculptures. The gummed paper had dried and hardened, so we used the dotty technique we learned earlier in the unit to decorate our fish in Indigenous Australian style.

Year 2 have been working hard creating our 3D fish. We used piles and piles of newspaper (thanks to everyone who brought some in) to create “shells”, smooth-topped shapes, which we then attached to large cardboard fish. Once we’d built up a nice fat fish shape, we covered the whole thing in layers of gummed […]

Year 2 continued their art topic this week, looking at Danny Eastwood’s work called “The Creation of Life.” We spotted some similarities this piece has with other indigenous Australian art. We then created our own fish shape, which we painted in a similar style using earthy coloured acrylics.

Our new art topic is all about Indigenous Australian art. Today we looked at different art works, noticing the colours and patterns. We found out how important art is in Indigenous Australian culture and how it was used to tell stories when people couldn’t read or write. Then, using acrylics, we had a go at […]

Year 2 created their final print today, using all the techniques we have learnt during our printmaking topic. We based our work on the prints by Karen Lederer, who uses reverse-stencilled hands in her art work. We were all really pleased with how our artwork looked!

Today’s art lesson was inspired by the book, “The Dot” by Peter Reynolds. We made our own dotty stencils by tearing and cutting scrap paper and learnt how to stipple to create our first dots. Then we turned our work around, slid it back under our stencil and used strokes to create another layer of […]