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Polar Bears in the Arctic
“I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy.” –Norval Morrisseau We started off our new winter session at Humbercrest Public School with a Polar Bear project. We were inspired by the great Canadian Artist, Norval Morrisseau to make a ‘spirit bear’. The […]
Penguin Birthday Party
The penguin’s joined in to celebrate at a birthday party this past weekend. We got busy with liquid watercolours and plastic wrap to make our icy background. We then used sponges and acrylic paint to make our icebergs and finished with potato stamps to make our penguin’s. We had a lot of fun. Take a […]
A New Year and a New School – Swansea Public School
We are so excited to be starting 2013 in a new school, Swansea Public School! We can’t wait to introduce our winter session and start working with watercolours, acrylic paint, printing inks, charcoal and many other materials. Some of the artists we will learn about include: Georgia O’Keefe, Morrisseau, and Cezanne. To download a copy […]
Holiday Art Making
We really got into the Christmas spirit this week as we captured the beauty of a decorated tree at night. All of our students worked really hard on their watercolour paper decorations and while we waited for the paint to dry they got to work on their pine boughs with oil pastels. I love how […]
Ellsworth Kelly and a Short Lesson on Design
“Simple, I don’t like the word simple. I like easy better. I want to forget about the technique. I sweat and worry but I don’t want it look like that; but you can’t separate the artist and his technique.“ – Ellsworth Kelly The American painter, Ellsworth Kelly was the inspiration for our grid creations. He […]
Our Own Take on Kandinsky
“Everything starts from a dot.” – Wassily Kandinsky Kandinsky was one of the first artists to create completely abstract (non-representational) art. Due to his special ability to hear colours (called synaesthesia cognate) his pieces made no reference to the natural world. We were inspired by his piece Several Circles to create our own abstract piece. Our classroom was […]
Bridget Riley – Op Art
“I work with nature, although in completely new terms.” – Bridget Riley Optical art is a style of visual art that makes use of optical illusions. The artist, Bridget Riley was our inspiration today. We had fun looking at her op art creations and seeing the movement and illusion contained within. Then it was our […]
Exploring Emily Carr
“Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.” – Emily Carr This week our grade 1 – 3 group tried our Emily Carr landscape project. The students enjoyed learning about her love for the outdoors and admired the way she captured the beauty of Canada. We started with sponges and blue paint […]
Kandinsky – Circles
“There is no must in art because art if free.” – Wassily Kandinsky The inspiration for our piece today was the artist, Wassily Kandinsky. We spent some time looking through his work and were inspired by his art that focussed on circles. Our inspiration was Several Circles.We created our very own art journal pages using the […]
Klee – Castles and Sun
“A line is a dot that went for a walk.” – Paul Klee Our grade 1 – 3 class became the architect’s of their own castles this week. We spoke about the Swiss artist, Paul Klee and studied his many paintings. A few favourites included: Red Balloon 1922, Individualized Altimetry of Stripes 1930 and The […]