Visual Arts

Outcomes:
VAES1.1 - Makes simple pictures and other kinds of artworks about things and experiences. VAES1.2 - Experiments with a range of media in selected forms. VAES1.3 - Recognises some of the qualities of different artworks and begins to realise that artists make artworks. VAES1.4 - Communicates their ideas about pictures and other kinds of artworks.

Term 2
This term, our art projects will be inspired by animals, particularly those that we will see on our zoo excursion.
Week & Reg Activity Materials Forms and Skills

Emu Mixed Media Prior to the lesson, go outside and collect lots of leaves. Students draw an emu outline, making sure to have a big oval for its body. They first paint or colour the emus neck/head (black) and legs (brown). Then, using the PVA glue, they layer and stick the leaves onto its body area. Cut these out and stick them around the room!

Paper Paint PVA glue Lead pencils Leaves

Crocodile - Craft Students begin by painting their egg carton green, earlier in the day or on the previous day. They cut out the cop and bottom of the crocodiles head. Draw, cut out and attach eyes. Cut out and attach teeth. Attach bottom of head to bottom of egg carton, top of head to top of carton. Attach the tail to the other end, underneath. Show students how to accordion-fold to make the legs they fold and attach these. All done!

*Egg cartons 1 per child, with the lid removed *Green paint *PVA glue *Green cardboard, including pieces with template for top and bottom of head, and tail *White paper for eyes and teeth (may want Teeth template)

Lion Mixed Media Discuss what colours you would see on a lion gold, orange, yellow, brown. First, students use lead pencil to draw a lion head a rectangle for the mouth area and a love-heart for the face. Students paint a warm-colour wash over their background using watercolour paints. After this has dried, the lead pencil lion should still be visible. Students trace over this with a black marker. They then draw lines out from its head to the edge of the page to make its mane.

*Lead pencil *Watercolour paints *Water *Brushes *Black markers

Peacock Bleeding Tissue Paper This lesson channels artist Paul Klee. Students draw a peacock-body outline and then do 5 lines upwards and outwards for its tail. They should use pencil to colour in the body of the peacock. They use small sections of tissue paper and bleed the colour onto the tail-area of their peacock: see below for how.

*Peacock colours of tissue paper purple, green, blues. *Water *Brushes *Royal-blue pencils (sharpened!)

**Bleeding tissue paper process: Put a small section of tissue paper onto your page. Wet your brush with just water. Dab (dont rub!) the wet brush onto the tissue paper. It will stick to the page. Once it has dried completely, it will fall off and the colour will have bled onto the page!**

Elephant - Craft Show students how to mix grey paint. Students should draw and cut out their trunk, 2 legs and tail. They attach the legs, tail and trunk to their plate They then paint their paper plate. After it has dried, the ear and eye can be stuck on.

*Paper plates, 1 per student *Grey paint (teach students how to mix it!) *Grey paper *PVA glue *Googley eyes (1 per student)

Giraffe Papercraft Show students how to draw the giraffe, perhaps on their whiteboards first? Draw a large and give it a top hat (its head). Draw around what you have done, and rub out the middle, original lines. Give it some horns and a tail. They then cut this out and decorate it with brown/orange pencil splodges. Stick onto the black background, and cut out green triangles for the grass. Dont forget a sleepy giraffe eye!

*Yellow paper *Black paper *White paper *Glue *Orange and brown pencils *Different shades of green texta, or different green papers to make grass

Panda Painting Students LIGHTLY draw an outline for their panda, making sure to draw the area for the black eye circles. Students use a sponge and the white paint first to sponge in the head and body of their panda. They then use the black to sponge the ears, eyes and arms. They will need to be very careful not to mix the paints on their page, because it will turn grey. It might be better to wait until the white has dried.

*Lead Pencil *White paint *Black paint *Red (or green!) cardboard/paper *Sponges

Zebra Either Scratchboards, Foam Stencils, or wax resist. Students draw a large zebra using white oil pastel. They then wash over with black water-colour paint.

*white oil pastels *water *brushes *black water colour paint

Artist Appreciation Art can have affect the world (As part of the Taronga Zoo Wild Rhinos display) Students learn about the Zoos rhinos project. This is a fundraising initiative by the zoo to help conservation of the Black Rhino. Artists known and unknown were invited to submit their designs for the rhinos. These will be displayed along a trail from Sydney to Dubbo, encouraging visitation to the two zoos. Afterwards, the rhinos will be sold at auction and the proceeds will go to the conservation of the black rhinos. View info here: http://taronga.org.au/wildrhinos/about View the different rhino designs here. You can also learn about the artists. http://taronga.org.au/wild-rhinos/artists