Grade 2 Acrylic Chameleon Paintings

By Sari

Lesson Background:
We have been reading Nim's Island by Wendy Orr, so thought we would make these pictures of Fred the iguana.  Lesson idea adapted from Deep Space Sparkle: https://www.deepspacesparkle.com/watercolor-iguana-art-lesson/

Lesson Materials (per student):
1 sheet A4 art paper
Acrylic paints
Brushes
Black permanent marker/sharpie for outlining

Lesson Steps:
1.  We looked at photos and artworks of iguanas, and discussed their features. 
2.  We then drew the iguana step-by-step together, and Mrs Baker showed us ways we could add slightly different eyes, mouths, spikes etc to make them more unique.
3.  We painted the picture.
3.  When dry, we outlined our pictures in black marker.

Grade 2 Student Artworks:

By Yare

By Alex B

By Harris

By Isidore

By Elise

By John

By Leon

By Isidore

By Amy

By Jordan

By Louis

By 2BD

Watercolour Island Paintings

By Isidore

Lesson Background:
We've been reading the novel, Nim's Island by Wendy Orr, and are absolutely loving it!  We've made these beautiful paintings to depict Nim's secluded island home.

Lesson Materials (per student):
1 sheet A4 white art/watercolour paper
Watercolour paints
Brush- 1 thin, 1 medium
water 
lead pencil

Lesson Steps:
1.  Draw the horizon line, palm trees, and any water or mountains desired.
2.  Wash the sky with a thin layer of water.  Do not let it be dripping wet.
3.  Wash yellow across the sky.
4.  Wash streaks of red, pink, orange, and/or purple into the yellow, trying to let them bleed a little, rather than just look like perfect straight lines.  If you have drawn in mountains or water, paint these in colour too (dark blues and purples for mountains look great, and copy the sky colours for any water).
5.  Paint the ground black.
6.  Use the thin brush to paint the palm tree black.

Grade 2 Student Artworks:






By Owen

By Clara

By Jordan

By Leon

By Emily

By Cole

Wheels of Change painting

2BD Wheels of Change artworks

Lesson Background:
Our class has been learning about transport over time, and how developments in transport have changed our lives.  This week we learnt about the invention of the wheel, and considered just how amazing this seemingly simple invention was.

Lesson Materials (per student):
1 stencil of a wheel (I just searched for a black and white wheel outline on google images)
1 sheet of A4 white art paper
good quality acrylic paints
a thin pointed paintbrush
water
a black permanent marker/sharpie

Lesson Steps:
1.  Place the wheel stencil underneath your art paper and trace it with the black marker.  Then continue to reposition it under the paper until the page is filled with parts of wheels.  Aim to have no, or almost no white space left on the page.
2.  Paint the spokes with bright acrylic colours.  (I demonstrated how to use different shades of the same/similar colour/s to create a more interesting effect of light and shade, and how to use contrasting colours for the rims to make them stand out more.  This was tricky for students, but some of them well and truly rose to the challenge!)
3.  When dry, re-outline everything with the black marker to neaten it all up.

Grade 2 Student Artworks:

Charlotte's Web Oil Pastel Piglets

LEFT: By Leon (Grade 2)                                             RIGHT: By Alex S. (Grade 2)

Lesson Background:  This term, we are learning to write narratives.  We are reading "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White as a means of exploring effective narrative writing structures, tricks and techniques.

Lesson Materials (per student):
1 sheet A4 black cardboard
1 lead pencil
coloured oil pastels (pink, red, white, black, greens, blues)

Lesson Steps:
1.  We looked at some pictures of piglets and read the opening chapter to "Charlotte's Web".
2.  Mrs Baker showed us step-by-step how to go about drawing, colouring, then outlining our pictures, focusing on spacing (e.g. this is half way down the page, and 3 finger-spaces wide), and adding different shades to make our pictures more realistic.

Grade 2 Artworks:

By Clara

By Harris

By Mayar

By Isidore

By Jordan

By Sari

By Olivia

By Louis

By John

By Cole

Aboriginal Dingo Art

By Emily (Grade 2)

We read the classic Aussie picture book, "Wombat Stew" at the end of last term, and wrote our own procedure for a bush recipe.  To follow on from this, our school's amazing arts teacher, Ms Reeve, created these beautiful Indigenous-inspired artworks with my class... aren't they stunning?!

Some more Grade 2 artworks:

 

Grade 2 Soft Pastel Mixtures

2BD soft pastel drawings- Well done, guys!

Lesson Background:
Our class has started a new Science unit on mixtures.  To tie in with this learning, we experimented further with light and shade by creating these soft pastel drawings showing glass bottles.

Lesson Materials (per student): Written by 2BD)
1 lead pencil
soft  pastels
1 sheet of A4 black paper
Fixative (or hairspray)

Lesson Steps: (Written by 2BD)
1.  Look at pictures of glass bottles filled with mixtures.
2.  Draw the bottle in the middle of the paper, following step-by-step instructions from the teacher.
3.  Draw the line of the table in the background, going across the page.
4.  Draw in the line showing how high your mixture fills the bottle.
5.  Choose 2 colours where one is a darker version of the other (e.g. orange and red, or light and dark blue).
6.  Turn the light pastel on its side and colour in the mixture.
7.  Use the darker pastel to colour in some shadows inside the mixture.
8.  Choose a contrasting colour and colour in the table top,
9.  Use the white soft pastel to outline the bottle and draw in reflections.
10.  Use a black pastel to draw in a oval-shaped shadow on the bottom right side of the bottle.
11.  Spray with fixative or hairspray to stop it smudging so much.
12.  Admire your picture (by Clara).

Student Artworks:

By Harris

By Isidore

By Alex S

By Clara

By Riho

By Olivia

By Amy
 

By Elise

By Cole

By Emily

By Sari

By Alex B