One of the wonderful things about teaching Art is the opportunity to photograph some of the great student artwork.
This photo was taken many years ago with our film camera.
I’m sure Jacinta is at University by now. She was a Prep (Kindergarten) student.

Today I am posting some photos of two pieces of Art work done by one of our talented Grade 3 students last year at Childrens’ Art Classes run by our local Brimbank City Council.
Congratulations to Candy on the quality of her work  and  for her interest in Art outside school.
Well done also to her parents for their help in assisting their daughter to follow her dreams.

After school yesterday (during a violent thunderstorm) several dedicated Visual Arts teachers from our area met in our Art Room for  a Product Display by Tania from Zart.
It was good to see the products and the work samples such as the pom-pom panda amongst the”bamboo” made from colourful straws of different sizes.
 Our  Grade 1 and 2 students are currently constructing Paper Mache pandas so they will be interested this photo. Of particular interest were the books on making artworks from recycled plastic bottles, lids and containers called “Fantastic Recycled Plastic” and the series of easy to read  books on the Elements of Art.
 

We are in our second week of the school year in Victoria  and I  am posting some of our Grade 6 student drawings.
We are studying the Art of Asia and we have begun by drawing some of the masks of Indonesia.
Next step is to fold and cut some cover paper masks in the same style.
The first drawing reminds me of the character in “Where the Wild Things are” by Maurice Sendak.

Almost a year ago my husband, my mother in law and I travelled around a large part of Australia in convoy with other cars from our Car Club.
Today I am adding two views (taken in the evening and in the morning) of Ayers Rock, or Uluru as it is now known, and some of the ancient Rock Art in one of caverns around its base.

This photo  was taken in the morning just as the sun rose and lit up the rock.

There was such a lot of great student Artwork at the Zart  Gallery that I thought I’d add some more.
The great animal collages using magazine and catalogue pictures fascinate me.
It goes to show how we can have students  look  for other possibilities and different uses for everyday objects e.g. say a fork as an arm with the prongs as fingers.
Adding the link to the Zart Gallery has opened my eyes to the extent of the great student Art work which Zart collects for display each Term.
I hope you find some ideas there too.

Today I had the very pleasant task of doing some shopping for Art Supplies at Zart. Zart is situated at 4/41 Lexton Road, Box Hill. Before I started making my selections from the vast art “supermarket” I went upstairs and photographed some of the great student Artwork in their Childrens Gallery. The work pictured here is not our student’s work but will be used as inpsiration for our students when they return to school in February. I asked Zart staff whether they mind photographs being taken and they  indicated that they are happy that the work receives publicity and is shared. Congratulations go to the Art Teachers and students from Altona Primary School, St Thomas the Apostle Primary Blackburn, Strathcona Girls Baptist Grammar School and Corowa South Public School. The Pattern and  Line work on Hands and Faces is by some Year 8 students at a secondary school. I hope that you enjoy the variety and the quality of the work.

One of our talented parents, Jay has made some fantastic cakes for her son Andrew’s class parties over the years. I love the way there is standing room only on this cake.
The wintery scene reminds me that while we, in Melbourne Australia, are sweltering in 44 degrees celcius (111 F) many parts of the world are experiencing records with extreme cold weather.

A New Year’s just begun, a new decade too. Incredible changes  have happened in teaching and learning over the past ten years.
Thankfully some things remain unchanged, the element of choice which Visual Arts provides and the satisfaction we feel in expressing, creating and making.
Najee’s Christmas Tree and Adele’s Butterflies are just two of  our 2009 Grade 6  Mosaics. 
We found Mosaic work messy, tile cement and grout being two of the hardest powders to control in a class of 25 students. But we did it and would do it again.
Happy New Year Everyone.

Our Grade 2AK and 1/2KG students made a cardboard loom and began weaving a variety of  threads and materials through the warp threads.
A fellow  teacher from a neighboring school exclaimed “I thought they were houses.”So we added a roof and windows and doors and
that set us going on a whole willage, Tartan Town, with the main street being Weaving Street.
We even involved Maths with the houses having even numbers on one side of the street and odd numbers
 on the other . More work is featured on our Recent Student Artwork page.