Jeannie Baker Collages

Lately we have been looking at the artwork and stories of artist and illustrator, Jeannie Baker. In response the children have been creating their own collage work using a selection of natural materials.

The ones on display here have been made by Lauren Nguyen and Carly Harrison.

The "Fine Feet" pictures have been drawn by Anushi Ilangamage and Ming Gie Guan.

New Bears Born Every Day

Many of the grade five and six children have finished their teddies, with new bears being "born" every day. Here are a few to share with you.

On To a New Project

With most of the photos taken for the grade 3/4 digital photo stories, it's time to move on to a new project. Complementing the work of our resident artist, Annette Sax, children will start to look at the published stories of collage artist and book illustrator, Jeannie Baker. Some collage work, using natural materials will be undertaken.

A scene from a digital story about a soccer game.

Artists in Schools Program

In the last two weeks the children in Grade 34 have met with artist Annette Sax and author Sue Atkinson. They have begun exploring the processes involved in writing and illustrating books and are gaining an appreciation of elements that affect what someone writes and draws. The children will now take a journey with Annette as she works to illustrate Sue's latest story, and use this as a model to write and illustrate their own personal stories using their heritage as a stimulus.

Great work from the Art Room

It was a great week in the art room this week with many of the children completing their bears and bottle characters. A few groups even finished taking photos for their digital stories.

Here is an exclusive sneak preview of the stories created by Isabella, Brittany, Devin, Connor V, William, Nathan, Syafiq, and Taya of Grade 34.

Photo Stories - Grades 3-6

Next term children will be finishing their bears and bottle characters. They will then be creating simple photo stories using their toys. Preparation and photography will be done in the art room. The digital stories will then be nade in the computer lab. I have played around with one of the programs the children might use and and made a sample to show them. I know it's not perfect, the duration of each picture is too short for one thing and some of the writing is hard to read, but I hope you enjoy the story anyway.
I also hope it inspires the children to think of their own ideas.

Last Week of Term One

The last week of term has arrived with many bears well on the way to being finished. Jack Baker and Harry Cooper, in grade 5, have finished sewing their teddies and will make outfits for them this week. Well done boys!

On the right is the little jointed bear being made by some children.

The children in Prep will complete their mixed media picture related to the beautifully illustrated picture story book, "Fox", this week and the grade three and four children will be continuing to work on their Bottle Character. Some have already started painting and decorating their model and all children should be planning their photo story which we will complete next term.

The schedule for this year's Royal Melbourne Show has arrived so, over the holidays, I will be compiling a list of all the classes we can enter . Twenty of our cute teddy bears will certainly be on display.

Happy holidays all!