Visual arts in our local environment

 

In Autahi we have been exploring our local environment as an inspiration for our visual art. As we work on building up the different parts of our project we have been doing some observing of our local environment and the things we find living in it. We practised sketching the different kinds of leaves that we have found around our school and used these to frame our piece of art.

Next we added a dye wash after outlining our leaves with oil pastel. We chose green and yellow as the children thought these best fit how we see our local environment when the sun washes over the trees.

This required some pretty big brush strokes as we had to cover the entire big piece of paper.

Our final piece was to use our powers of observation to help us sketch some of the creatures that live in our local gardens and bush. Using some amazing big books as inspiration we made a few critters to crawl or fly around our art.

We can't wait to show you the finished products when all the pieces finally come together. Our plan is for these to go up just in time to brighten up our classroom after the school holidays. We hope you will come in and check out our hard work and get a taster for our Arts Celebration later this year.