Painted Paper Seascapes
Today was my last day in the art room before the school holidays. Nathan’s class visited me to do their Calendar Art work for our fundraiser. They painted expressive seascapes, lots with sunsets as the background. Later on in the year families have the opportunity to order cards, diaries, sketchbook and calendars with their child’s beautiful artwork on it. To create the seascapes this students completed three different elements throughout the day and then arranged the pieces in a final composition
First the students painted the sky of their seascapes. On request of one of the students I modelled how to paint a sunset. Most of the students chose to paint sunsets for the sky and the results are stunning.
Next the students painted a separate piece of paper in a combination of blue, turquoise and green. They added white accents over the top to give the effect of white-capped waves. When it was dry the students ripped this page into long strips to be used as the ocean.
To make the boats the students cut our simple triangle and trapezium shapes from magazines. I encouraged the students to try to find hot colours so that the boats would contrast with the cool coloured background. The students glued their boats onto a separate piece of white paper first to make the boats sturdier when arranging the final composition. I had a great day working with Nathan’s class, check out their artworks below.
