The Year 3 & 4's

The Year 3 & 4’s are a hardworking group of enthusiastic artists.   They too have been learning the importance of maintaining a workbook.  In their workbooks they have been recording images that are important to them, from super cool motor bikes, cars and superheroes to princesses, flowers and fashion.  

In our first lesson we brainstormed ‘what is an artist?’  Here are their interesting initial responses....

Their drawing assignment was to observe carefully some insects.  We narrowed this down to cicadas as the children were finding their shed shells out on the trees in the playground.

They had to observe very carefully what they saw in front of them – not what they thought it should look like!  We counted the legs and we had to make sure our cicada had 6 legs, and 3 body parts, the head, thorax and abdomen.  

We discussed shading with our pencils and practised this in our workbooks.  We then moved to our large sheets of paper and carefully drew from our research drawings.  We then added coloured pencil.

Iroam's insect at the coloured pencil stage

Next we went over the outlines with vivid to bring out the detail – especially in the wings.

Lastly we added the dye to bring out the background.

 

'Cicadas' on PhotoPeach

Don’t they look fabulous!

Have a look at the Yr 1-2's illustrating with chalk outside on the courts.
Drawing with chalk on PhotoPeach 
They were asked to draw things that began with the letter 'A'.  Each student enjoyed not only working on a different surface but being outside in the fresh air!

Welcome to Sylvia Park School's very own 'Studio'.  My name is Dagmar Dyck and it's my privilege to be the 'artist in residence' until the end of term 2.  

Looking at all our work

Here is a photo of our Junior class discussing 'what is an artist?'.  They have also been busy designing their visual diary covers. Many of our Junior students view an artist as someone that 'paints, colours in, and is good at writing and drawing pictures'.  Through designing their own workbook covers the Juniors thoroughly engaged in the process of creating their own personal 'marks'.  


The Year 3-8's all received their own artist quality visual diaries.  In here they were encouraged to record all their ideas, thoughts and inspirations.  In our discussion the students were told that these are not 'secret diaries' but rather tools for their craft.  They will be utilised to store all their important information and ideas.  The students are allowed to take them home each night to work on - as long as they do their other homework first! :-)