Artists: Year 4 students, 2020
Medium: Various
Inspired by Australian Artists Fred Williams and Ron Brown, Year 4 students made comparisons between the techniques and processes involved in producing both abstract landscapes and those with foreground, middle ground and background.
With a focus on environment and sustainability, the students considered their use of the art elements of space, colour and visual texture to create an Australian landscape.
They used paints and/or home-made mediums and a variety of painting tools, such as dried herbs, coffee, toothpaste, combs, sponges, and bubble wrap to explore the painting techniques of blending, layering and texturizing.
In the Media Arts component of the task, students used art apps of their choice to explore a variety of brush tools, opacities and layering to produce their Australian landscape compositions.
The artwork in this exhibition was produced during a period of off-campus learning.
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The artistic process
Here, some student artists explain the thought and creative processes they used to develop their artwork.
“I used coffee for the hills with a thick paint brush. For the sky I used the paintbrush with blue food colouring. For the trees I chose pom-poms, in different sizes, dipped in green food colouring. I made brown food dye, using green, yellow and red for the tree trunks. I used tooth picks to paint them on. To paint shrubs, I used mustard with the toothbrush. Then I used toothpaste for the clouds, using a toothbrush making an infinity sign.”
Billy S
“I chose green because it makes me feel like I am in a field of green trees.”
Billy M
“I used chopsticks to make the tree trunks, bubble wrap for the leaves. The black squares are tombstones and the red dots are poppies. I used white to represent snow and there is cave on the right.”
Darcey
“I use the different shades of blue to represent our winter. I used a comb to add emphasis to the shape and line of the grass.”
Kieran
“I used turmeric, coffee and paprika.”
Matty
“I used paprika with water and coffee. I made the background trees smaller and the foreground trees larger.”
William
