ART UPDATES

ART DEPARTMENT  

# Festival artwork

Before the Mid-Autumn festival, year 2 students learned about the Mid-Autumn festival in art class. We watched some videos about the legend’s stories and traditional customs of the Mid-Autumn festival. According to the understanding of the festival, students created their own unique artworks, most of them using rabbit and the moon cake, the typical object as the main creative element of the Mid-Autumn festival artwork. Year 2 students spent three weeks completing this artwork, from learning to observe and then to designing, finalizing, and colouring. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, we hope our children’s artwork could bring happiness to you and your family!

# Red-crowned cranes

The painting theme of the third grade is Red-crowned cranes. Red-crowned cranes are long living bird in the world that symbolize nice and propitious. Drawing a red-crowned crane is a challenge for children because they need to observe red-crowned cranes features prudentially and patiently. Let's appreciate the children's works!  

#  Light and Shadow

This semester Year Four have been learning about how light affects the 3D objects they see, and how to shade their drawings in order to show this. They also studied simple animation techniques and made their own animated flipbook, which was a lot of fun.

#  Different art styles 

Year Five have been studying Pop Art, Graffiti graphic styles and Comic book cartoon Art. After learning about the colour theories and various artistic techniques used in these genres of Art, they practised in their sketchbooks.

#  Indigenous Australian art

Year Six have been learning about indigenous Australian art and in particular Aboriginal Dot painting which is representative of Aboriginal culture and mythology. They have then gone on to produce their own versions of this style of Art.