Sunday, October 25, 2020

 

Balmoral Arts Festival 

Arts festival is a wonderful time of year where the whole school is given the opportunity to grow their creativity and build skills with in the arts. Each student from year 1 through to year 8 spends three days making art. Every year there is an artist in residence working in the school to inspire children and show them how artist work. The festival ends with a school wide exhibition where each student displays a piece of work and whanau and friends are invited to come and celebrate with us . 

                                                        Kāinga Rimu's art work

Art week in Whanau koru

Kāinga Kōwhai 

In Kāinga Kōwhai we have been inquiring into birds and what makes a bird a bird. This lent itself beautifully to bright and colourful art projects. The Piwakawaka's decided to learn about screen printing and print their drawings of birds. The Pukeko's let their imaginations run wild with big bright crazy birds.

Piwakawaka's

The Piwakawaka's started off drawing every kind of bird you could imagine. There was lots of close looking of shapes and lines and some beautiful drawings were produced.




We took the drawings and photocopied them cutting them out to use as stencils for our screen prints. The teachers helped with the cutting. 


Next everyone chose a color and placed their stencil under the screen and pulled the ink across.


 They waited for it to dry and then choose another colour.


 The reveal of printmaking is always so much fun!


Here is Lucas's Hawk standing on a rock. Can you see the egg?


 Look at Jason's Flamingo!
The final pieces had two colours and were sewn onto fabric.


This is Violet's owl sitting in it's nest with it's eggs!

All the work look fabulous on opening night!


Pukeko's

The Pukeko's started their project by designing their crazy birds. They had to think about how big it would be? what type of beak their bird might have? what would the wings look like? what about the the legs? big or small? spiky or smooth? So many decisions to make! Then they set to work drawing, painting, detailing with vivid and cutting. They stuck all the piece together and wow... they had created their own unique birds!





Their work took center stage at the exhibition being hung along the glass banister on the second floor. Their birds had been painted and designed to be seen from both sides! What a great exhibition.







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