Art Club for years 5 and 6 will be held in Heron Class.  Your lovely children will be ready for collection at 4:30 at the door of Heron Class (year 5) - the first door of the years 5 and 6 block.

Christmas time, don’t let the bells end!

At this fabulously festive time of year we’ve been working on another awesome art form, our own Christmas song! After doing some (albeit extremely) brief research into what makes a memorable Christmas tune, using an online platform called Soundtrap we’ve been taking it in turns to select different loops to build our number 1 hit. It’s a work in progress, which will require some serious editing before it’s ready for public consumption, but everyone’s been having a great time testing out the different sounds and building up the layers of our track.  We’ll share it once all our musical ducks are in a row, and in the meantime you can see our budding producers mulling over their options below…

The Writing’s On The Wall

For the last couple of weeks, we’ve been looking at street art and graffiti and practising our own word art.  As we have learned, many street artists apply their trade with permission from the owners of the walls they bring to life.  However, as Art Club don’t currently have any walls available to decorate without finding ourselves in trouble with Mr Jones or local law enforcement, we have made our own! Take a look at our gorgeous tags (artist signatures, often initials or nicknames) and throws (longer or more detailed than a tag), they could well be the seedlings for some future public “pieces” (larger than throws and with lots of colour and additional art).  If you’d like some interactive inspiration for your next tag or throw, have a go at the online graffiti generator provided by Graffiti Empire which you can access by clicking here.

Arte Del Recuerdo

In Art Club, we’ve been exploring the rich traditions of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), a Mexican holiday that celebrates and honors loved ones who have passed away. The children have been learning about the vibrant symbolism and artistry associated with this special day, in particular the iconic sugar skulls (calaveras) and marigolds (cempasuchil), which are believed to guide spirits back to the living world.

Our young artists expressed their creativity by drawing their own sugar skulls, decorating them with bold patterns and colours that are typical of this beautiful celebration.

We’re freeeeeeeeee to collage whatever we, whatever we like, if it’s wrong or right it’s aaaaaalright!

Tuesday Art Club have recently learned a little bit about collage and have since set about using various resources to make their own.  With absolutely no rules on what should appear on the canvas, everyone has been making some beautifully unique pieces which some of us have been working on for a few weeks now.

Kate Shaw

Monday and Tuesday Art Club have been looking at the work of Kate Shaw, an Australian artist who uses different paint techniques to make psychedelic landscapes reflected in bodies of water. First of all, we used watercolours to make our sunset backdrops and we then moved on to experiment with different types of marbling to decorate paper which we will use as our landscape features…

The Finished Article

After spending some time last week painstakingly cutting and arranging our landscape features, Tuesday Art Club have finally produced their Kate Shaw inspired landscapes.  Behold these psychedelic wonders…

All Art Club members have a self made art book to doodle, practice, sketch or to use however they please alongside any projects we may enter into.  We try to make different resources available each week so that they can experiment freely and we often have a video playing during our sessions giving us art tips or inspiration.  This week, we were watching a Halloween doodle video which we accompanied with a Spotify Halloween playlist - some funky moves and these lovely little artworks ensued…