My year 7 art class made these primary colour collages a few weeks ago. I forgot to photograph them before being laminated a stapled to a display board. As a result, the photos have reflections on them and are very oddly cropped. Hopefully you can still get an idea of the great work the students did.

As always, I can't put names on the students work for school privacy reasons.

My year 9 art class are just finishing off their colour colours. Below are a few photos of the ones I have received so far.

My year 8 art class have started the year by completing a 'complementary colour' task. The requirement was for students to take 3 photographs that each contain the complementary colours. Students were instructed to be as creative as possible. Below are some of the examples they created.

When I teach new classes I often make a sample piece of work so that the students have a sort of guide to look at. I sometimes make the pieces along side the students, just one step ahead at a time. Other times I will make the whole artwork prior to starting teaching the lessons.

The artwork below relates to the student artwork in my previous post. The class started off by doing blind contour drawings and continuous line drawings of teapots and teacups. Realistic drawing was then taught next. A lesson on composition followed the drawing so that students could decide on an image for their final work.

I realised that I don't have the photos of all the steps for this work unfortunately. Below are the only photos I could find.

A few weeks ago my gorgeous Year 9 girls finished off their teacup/teapot collages. The year 9's were also working on the Alice in Wonderland idea of the mad hatters tea party.

The class started off by doing blind contour and continuous line drawings of teacups and teapots. We then moved on to learning about realistic drawing of teacups and teapots. Students then worked out a composition they liked and set about collaging on top of their drawing. Paints were then applied and black pen for final details. Some of the results are below. I will post detailed step by step photos of the process in a future post.

As I mentioned some time ago on here, my year 7,8,9 and 10 students have all been working  to an Alice in Wonderland theme.

In particular, my year 8's focussed on the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. First of all we studied the elements and principles of design and then moved on to still life drawings. The culmination of these things led to students producing an image of a teacup or teapot that employed the use of pattern, line, shape and positive and negative space.

Some pretty good work if I do say so myself.

The next lot of my year 9 students colour wheels are pasted below.

I have included some images below of my year 9 students finished colour wheels. Their task was to complete a colour wheel where they thought outside of the box.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I believe in teaching colour theory to all year levels. I make the information they learn more and more complicated each year.

Below is a copy of the colour theory sheets I use with my year 9's when starting the colour theory unit.

I've just finished teaching my grade 7 art class (12 year olds) the basic of colour theory. Below are a few examples of their primary colour collages. I was really thrilled with some of their creative results.