Cathy's Aboriginal Art Reflection

Making a sequential pattern - Aboriginal

1. Are you pleased with your artwork? Why / why not?

Yes I am because I have never done this kind of art, so that means it's my first time!

2. What was challenging when you did your sequential pattern artwork?

It was challenging making the right shades of the colours I used and it was hard to make all the dots the same size.

3. What could you adapt / modify with your artwork?

I could have used a smaller paint brush.

4. Who / what helped you with your sequential pattern artwork?

First Miss Paton helped me and taught me how to do it. Also all the kids who painted and finished gave me a good example, and the kids who were painting at the time helped me too!

5. If you were to teach a new person how to create your artwork under your theme (Romero Britto or Aboriginal Art) what would be the teaching points / tips?

One tip would be to use a paint brush that is the right size that you want when your painting, and another tip would be to decide what you want to do before you start painting.

6. What have you learnt about this process?

I learnt that whenever you paint you should use the right size paint brush.
I also learnt that aboriginal paintings have sequential patterns.

By Cathy / Catherine

Budding young artists at work

During this week we have been focusing on creating sequential patterns as part of our algebra maths  strand. The Years 6, 7 and 8's have been focusing on the Italian artist Romero Britto and the Years
4-5 students have been learning about creating aboriginal art works.
Our first step was exploring designs and choosing the design we would like to do. We looked at similarities between the artworks. From there we could take away ideas from the artworks under the same theme. We drafted our designs in our maths books and then transferred them onto white paper or black paper. At the moment some of our students are at the painting stage. This is a very exciting process.