Grade 3/4 ~ Finishing up our hot air balloons!

We've nearly finished our balloons and the ones that are hanging up in the Art Room look so bright and colourful!  A few students are adding finishing touches and making some little peg doll people to pop inside their baskets. Well done guys! They've takes us a few weeks, but the end product was definitely worth it.

Grade 3/4 ~ Making progress on our hot air balloons!

We've been waiting for layers of papier-mache to dry and hoping our balloons had not popped or shrunk between lessons!  After a couple of mishaps (that we managed to overcome in creative ways), most of us had a final layer of white paper on our balloons and they were dry and ready for us to paint this week.

Aren't they looking bright and colourful? I just love the patterns, designs and colour combinations you are all coming up with.

Some students have already started constructing their baskets and strings, as well as thinking about the materials we could use to make a flame just under the balloon (we're thinking tissue paper or cellophane). Well done Grade 3/4 - you are all doing such a great job. We're nearly there!

Grade 3/4 ~ Papier Mache Hot Air Balloons

Our Hot Air Balloons are well underway and are hopefully drying nicely right now ready for more layers next week!  Here are some progress shots (with lots of slimy, gooey hands!)

Have you been thinking about the colours and patterns you'd like to paint on yours?  I think the best part is when we get to pop the balloons!

Welcome to the Marlborough PS Art Room Blog!

Thanks for stopping by! I will be sharing lots of student artwork and happenings from our Art classes here, so make sure you check in regularly!

During Term 3, our Art classes consisted of lessons that complemented the Integrated Topics of each year level.  The Prep-2 students were studying Fairytales and we had lots of fun with guided drawing sessions.  

We learned how to draw castles as well as discussing what the different parts of a castle were called (towers, turrets, battalions, drawbridges etc).  Our Foundation students did an amazing job of drawing their castles with white oil pastels on black paper. Some even highlighted the windows with yellow to make them look like the lights were on!  Here are photos of Will T and Carla's castles.

The Grade 1-2 students also worked on drawing castles - they used black oil pastels and bright watercolours.  These are displayed in the office building - I think they look amazing!

Grade 1/2 classes also spent some time drawing portraits of Kings and Queens. They used magiclay to add form and texture to their crowns and had fun decorating them with glitter paint and jewels.  Here is Ethan's King and Emily's Queen.

Grade 3/4 students enjoyed their topic of Media last term and we had lots of fun making comics and drawing cartoons (especially after Richard Galbraith's visit). We also looked at Pop Art and studied some artworks by famous artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.  We were particularly inspired by the artwork 'Whaam!' by Roy Lichtenstein.    Students used a variety of materials to create their own Onomatopoeia Pop Art. If you ask one of the Grade 3/4 students, I am sure they can explain to you what 'Onomatopoeia' means!  They certainly made me say "WOW!"

The 5/6 students studied Outer Space in Term 3 and we spent some time studying the Visual Art Principles of Perspective and Space. In particular, we looked at the optical illusion of 'foreshortening'. Foreshortening describes an extreme perspective, where objects on a 2-dimensional surface seem to reach out to you.  Things that are closer to you look bigger than the things that are far away.

Students created artworks of astronauts in outer space and experimented with this technique of foreshortening.  They began by tracing their hands and feet and then drawing the body smaller to give the illusion of the astronaut falling through outer space.  They look terrific displayed around the Art Room!   Here are Riley's, Stanley's and Jaidyn's.

I hope you've enjoyed reading about what we were learning about in Visual Arts last term.  I will continue to update this blog with photos and snippets of our lessons during the remainder of this year.  We certainly have some very talented artists here at Marlborough!