Artists in nature
Creative Arts
Students will gain a deeper understanding of how to create interesting and engaging artworks using nature as their guide. Using the Elements and Principles of Art, students will develop a rich source of ideas to create and appreciate both art and nature.
Sites visited
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 (2006)
Outcomes
- represent the qualities of experiences and things that are interesting or beautiful by choosing among aspects of subject matter (CA-VAS2.1)
- use the forms to suggest the qualities of subject (CA-VAS2.2)
- acknowledge that artists make artworks for different reasons and that various interpretations are possible (CA-VAS2.3)
- identify connections between subject matter in artworks and what they refer to, and appreciate the use of particular techniques (CA-VAS2.4)
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
"In science we are looking at plants and pollinators, so focusing on plants was beautifully connected."