In Autahi, Creativity is a Character Strength that we see on a daily basis. Our children are never short of ideas for things they would like to make, build and draw. Our role is often to provide opportunities for all our students to develop specific art skills that they will be able to use to enhance their creations. We are also keen to make sure that everybody, wherever they are in their development as an artist, has a chance to create art that is fun to make and satisfying to look at.
Our latest project in Autahi takes inspiration from Kandinsky's Circles. Our artists' first challenge was to draw the concentric circles that form the basis of their art piece. Drawing large circles is tricky! We practised on our whiteboards and then, when we felt ready, used our soft sketching pencils to draw the circles on paper.
Once we had our circles, it was time to consider our colour choices. For this, we needed to use our artist's skill of observation. We looked at some photos of the bush and noticed the colours that were there - and those that were not. We created a colour pallet for our work by marking these on a colour chart.
Now, time to make our colours. We practised making the greens, browns and oranges that we needed by mixing together the primary colours of red, yellow and blue. Colour mixing takes practice, especially to achieve very specific shades.
Now time to paint! We had to be careful to keep inside the circle lines that we had drawn so that the layer by layer colour rings could be seen. We also had to make careful choices about colour combinations.
We are pretty excited by how our art looks so far.
The next step will be to create a background for our circles and combine the individual panels.
Watch out for our finished art piece in Autahi soon!
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