The first term of school in the art room is spent looking at an artist and using that artist’s
techniques and language to inspire the art students own interpretation of the work.

This is a fantastic way for the students to enhance their learning. A new generation learns about an artist
they otherwise may never have heard of. The students get great pleasure in looking at the
artist’s work, I know this from the ooohhs and ahhhhhhs I hear around the artroom in reaction to
what the students see.

Ton Schulten is a Dutch landscape, colourist painter and so that is where the art students begin.

The Lower School

The younger year levels were required to create a colourist landscape by

1. Creating an abstract tree

2. Placing a horizon line

3. Dividing the grass or ground area with vertical lines

4. Dividing the sky with horizontal lines

5. Using warm and cool colours to show divisions in the land

6. Using water colour tablets and pencils to carefully paint and complete the picture

The Upper School

The older year levels were required to create a colourist landscape by

1. Each student was given a black and white photograph of a landscape

2. The students had to sketch the main shapes of the landscape

3. The students had to draw several vertical lines through their work and horizontal lines here and there
to divide up their design

4. Using poster paints the students were given 3 limited colour palettes > warm and cool

5. The students had to mix and then tint their own colours on a separate palette

6. The students were not to put two of the same colours touching each other.

The work is bright, bold, energetic and beautiful.

The students were engaged in their work and have shown great skill and passion towards the subject of art.

Be careful, do not under estimate these as mere pictures, these are works of art.

Cranbourne West Primary School
Suitable for Levels 1 – 4