Room One - Calendar Art, 2014

Today, Room 1 came to the Art Room to complete their art for the Tamaki Primary calendar fundraiser this term. We loved learning how to draw cartoon birds and put patterns onto fish outlines.

Our main focus was learning to use different art media and thinking carefully about the layout of our artwork. Our art media today was using sketch pencils, vivids for outlining, chalk pastels for our backgrounds and felt tips for our details.

It was really fun choosing our chalk pastel colours! We got chalk pastel ALL OVER our hands and the tables - but it was really fun covering our paper with colours.

Enjoy our photos!

Room 2 - How to use pastels

On Tuesday in Room 2, we were learning about how to smudge two colours with pastels to add depth to our artwork. We had a lot of fun putting leaves on our trees.

First, we ran around outside and found different leaves of all shapes, sizes and colours. We then tried to use different colours of pastels to see if we could replicate the colours of our actual leaves.

After this, we used "smudging" skills to smudge our colours together to make leaves. Look at what we came up with!