Term 2 2005 Gallery

Greenhills Primary School

Artworks

How To:

Australian Landscapes

Grades 5 & 6 students were inspired by a tour of NVG: Ian Potter, and a related workshop. This included the gumleaf activity using watercolour pencils.

  • Back at school the colour wheel was studied and colour mixing explored
  • Students created their own colour maps to avoid the 'How did I make that colour?' syndrome.
  • A range of brush and palette techniques were explored
  • Resources included a wide variety of prints and photographs of Australian scenes
  • Students were encouraged to paint a scene of somewhere familiar or special to them