It's all action (and a fair amount of mess and dust!) in the art room at the moment. The children from grades Prep to 2 are working on clay modelling projects, as are the grade 5/6 students who have made a veritable Jurassic Park of dinosaurs and begun their terracotta clay tiles for this year's Memory Trail activity. Hence, we have a room full of drying greenware, and a queue of work waiting for firing in the rapidly rusting kiln! Thanks to Mr Agar for some timely rivetting to keep it together a bit longer!
In grades 3 and 4, the children are mastering the technique of blanket stitch. This is being used, along with felt, paint and fabric textas to create a variety of Australian birds and animals. These will be velcroed to fabric-collaged murals, one of which, if all goes to plan, will be entered as a group project in the Royal Melbourne Show.
Thank you very much to our parent art room helpers Monica Macdonald, Joanne Deidtrich, Eunice Caligarri and Elaine Horton for assisting our children with the challenges of their various projects. Your help is invaluable!
This week Ms Sawada and myself will be selecting entries in the painting, drawing and collage classes for the Melbourne Show. Children will receive a note, if their work is selected, and asked to bring along the $5 entry fee.
We have entered about 70 items from our students this year, including cooking, knitting, scrapbooking, teddy bear making and jewelery. Wow! We have very talented children!
All the best
Anne Duke and Etsuka Sawada
