Artists in nature

Suggested timetable

10:00	Introduction and Acknowledgement of Country (crunch and sip and toilets if needed)
10:20	Students are guided on a bushwalk to create a nature journal through a range of activities, such as sketching and shadow drawing.
11:30	Recess and toilets
12:00	Students print leaves and other natural materials onto various surfaces. They experiment with other techniques such as leaf rubbings. Each student creates and takes home a canvas bag.
1:00	Lunch and toilets
1:30	Students select and collect objects they find along the path and create and photograph their own ephemeral art.
2:00	Conclusion and depart

* There may be variations to timetable based on specific location, group size and weather

Tier 2 and 3 vocabulary

Tier 2:

Interpretation, contrast, symmetry, composition, technique

Tier 3:

ephemeral, texture, printmaking, complementary colours, subject matter

Syllabus outcomes and content

Creative Arts K-6 (2024)

Outcomes

• makes artworks using art forms to represent subject matter and ideas, and describes ways artists convey ideas about their world to audiences through artworks CA2-VIS-01

Visual Arts

Making: Artists represent their world through subject matter and ideas in artworks

• Represent subject matter and ideas in artworks, making choices based on own interpretations of the world
• Use drawing materials and techniques to create effects with texture and tone to represent subject matter and ideas
• Explore relationships between colours and tones, using primary, secondary, complementary or analogous colours to represent subject matter and ideas
• Experiment with the qualities of paint and painting processes using tools to blend colours and create surface effects
• Investigate printmaking processes to create rubbings and repeated prints, using sustainable materials, self-made tools or objects