Level 2.

William Buelow Gould Sailing Ships off Rocky Coast

• Look at and talk about Gould's painting.
• Using a palette of blue, white and black dab paint onto paper. Use a piece of card to move the paint around the paper to create the movement of waves.
• On blue cover paper paste torn tissue paper to create the rocky cliffs.
  
• Draw a sailing ship onto print foam. Print the image a few times.
  
• Cut out the sea using curvy lines. Cut out the ships and assemble onto the blue cover paper.
  

Margaret PRESTON, Flying Over The Shoalhaven River, 1942.

Level 3

• Look at and talk about Preston's painting.
• Draw the river snaking down the centre of the blue paper.
• Tear brown, red, yellow coloured paper. And paste in blocks of colour to represent paddocks.
• Paint the trees by dotting using filters.
• Cut out white clouds and repeat the shape using a dark colour for cloud shadows. Make stilts for the clouds and paste the clouds onto the landscape.
  

Asher Bilu, The Forms That Swim And The Shapes That Creep Under The Waters Of Sleep, 1988.

Level 3

• Look and talk about Asher's painting.
• Using a palette of blue, white and black dab paint onto the paper, mixing the colours directly onto the paper.
• Look at and talk about Jackson Pollock's art practice.
• Squirt and dribble enamel paint over the painted background.
• On sheets of acetate create water creatures using Crayola Window FX
• When dried peel off and paste onto the painted background.
  

John PERCEVAL, Gannets Diving, 1956.

Levels 4

• Look at and talk about Perceval's painting.
• Create the background by dabbing blue, white and black paint onto the paper, mixing colours directly onto the paper.
• Use card to move the paint to create the waves of the sea.
• The dock is represented by printing with corks and filters. Browns and yellows were used.
• The students used form cuts to create the jetty and the makers. The boats, fishermen and gannets were added using a fine paint brush.

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