What’s Happening in the Art Studio?
This term is rapidly moving along and in art class everyone is working towards finishing their artworks. All students will be taking their work home in their art folios for you to enjoy at the end of term.
Visual Art Diaries in the Art Studio
From year one all my students are given a Visual Art diary or small scrapbook. This book follows them from year to year and in year six they take them home. When looking through them most students find them amusing and interesting. Especially when they can see their development, with increased art skills and ideas, throughout their primary school years.
This term we have started each lesson with a warmup prompt or game in our diaries. After focused drawing for 5 minutes they share their responses with a partner. This week they compared each other’s drawing by looking for art element similarities and differences within their work.
Throughout the years the diary is used for brainstorming ideas, experimenting with techniques, focusing on what they will learn that year, storing information about an artist, art styles or art cultures that they might be focusing on, silent 5-minute drawing activities and games, and a wide variety of activities. It is a ‘have-a-go’ book where the students are invited to experiment. It is not marked and not used all the time.
Room 13 students showing off their year one cover pictures
Room 14 used their Visual diaries with the crazy prompt to draw a birthday cake eating a banana. After 5 minutes here are some of their zany ideas.
Grinning winners from the art raffle this fortnight
Your partner in education,
Melinda Cockerill
Melinda.cockerill@education.wa.edu.au