Creating: Kiwiana Visual Art

This term, our Inquiry Learning topic is Kiwiana. In response, we are doing a Level 3-4 Visual Art unit as planned by Ms Osborne. We had modelled examples, where we all worked out together how to draw the lines by first breaking them up into shapes we could see, before adding the finer details:

We used the designs we had drawn to then create our own versions of the designs using oils pastels. Again, Ms Osborne modelled how to use these:

Our 'success criteria' were: using lightest to darkest colours and making sure we moved the paper to avoid smudging it or mixing the colours, to get the best result we could. We had a lot of fun creating our own images to share with others. Here are some of the images we have created in response to this 'so far':

Welcome to our Jungle

This jungle themed classroom display was inspired by the animal cards available at the supermarket. The students had lots to talk about and then decided to research a wide range of animals. They learnt, created and shared their projects with each other in the jungle.