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.
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Suggested timetable
| 10:00 | Introduction and Acknowledgement of Country |
| 10:20 | 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. If time permits, students work in small groups or individually to create ephemeral art inspired by artists such as Andy Goldsworthy. |
| 11:30 | Recess |
| 12:00 | Students work in small groups or individually to create ephemeral art inspired by artists such as Andy Goldsworthy. |
| 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:30 | In small groups, students spend time on the Bungoona Path taking photos applying their new knowledge. Back in the classroom they reflect on their favourite images. Along the trail students will also observe elements of art and principles of design in nature. |
| 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:
observe, represent, create, experiment, reflect, assemble, compose, interpret, respond, explore
Tier 3:
printmaking, texture, composition, contrast, tone, perspective, symbolism, mixed media, ephemeral, digital technology
Syllabus outcomes and content
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus (2006)
Students:
- investigate subject matter in an attempt to represent likenesses of things in the world (CA-VAS3.1)
- make artworks for different audiences assembling materials in a variety of ways (CA-VAS3.2)
- acknowledge that audiences respond in different ways to artworks and that there are different opinions about the value of artworks (CA-VAS3.3)
- communicate about the ways in which subject matter is represented in artworks (CA-VAS3.4)
Creative Arts (2024)
Visual Arts
Making: Artists represent their world in intentional ways through their artmaking practice
- Represent ideas or perspectives of their world and intentions in own artmaking practice
- Create intentional effects with awareness of the relationships between colours and tones, to represent subject matter or ideas in realistic, imaginative or symbolic ways
- Use painting materials, techniques and processes to explore ways to apply paint in combination with mixed media materials
- Use printmaking materials, techniques and processes to explore ways to make single or multiple prints
- Explore artistic conventions and ways to represent subject matter and ideas in compositions
- Apply understandings of materials, digital technologies and processes to represent intended ideas in artworks
"The students learnt a lot and had so much fun. They loved all the hands on experience and the staff's knowledge of plants and animals was very evident which helped students gain more of an understanding of adaptations."