Windy Wellington Day
The weather has taken a turn here with icy southerly winds blowing up from Antarctica. Wellington is known for being a windy city so I thought an artwork based around the weather would be fitting. Gina and Shanon’s class joined me in the art room for a fun day of creating.
To begin, the students created stormy sky backgrounds. They covered their paper in white paint and then twirled the paintbrush over the top with a little black paint to create swirling, stormy clouds. While they were creating their backgrounds I took photographs of the students while they posed as if they were being carried away by an umbrella in the Wellington wind.
The students watched this cute little video about colours and we discussed hot and cold colour schemes. The students drew umbrellas and coloured them in pastel with either a hot or cold colour scheme.
To finish the lesson we had a discussion about composition and then the students glued their pieces altogether. I’m really pleased with these artworks. I love the movement created by the swirly background and drifting umbrellas, not to mention the wonderful expressions on the students’ faces.
