Each year, to celebrate Harmony Day, we create a whole school artwork. This collaborative piece is always displayed on the wall in the front office. 
This year's display is a tree with each student adding a leaf to the tree. Each LC has a different leaf design and a different colour:
PLC (green) - new growth, the newest MPPS students. They decorated their leaf with their favourite things.
SLC (yellow) - These students also decorated their leaf with their favourite things.
CLC (orange) - We talked about identity and what makes us the same and what makes us different.
YYLC (red/brown) - our autumn leaves, some of which will fall from the tree at the end of the year to begin their high school journey. These students also looked at identity and what makes them special.

Here are some more photos from our talented students. The Fox paintings are examples of our SLC students exploring tint and shade, The amazing mural was created by our YYLC students, as were the wonderful, Ken Done inspired, oil pastel works. The monochromatic landscapes are from our fabulous CLC students as they too explored tint and and shade.

We are halfway through Term 1 already and what a start it has been.  Welcoming our new Prep students has been lovely. We have been learning all about primary colours and colour mixing.
Our SLC students have been demonstrating their CARE values creating minibeast collages. 
In CLC the students have been exploring colour, shape and form with subtractive paper collages. These challenging artworks have yielded wonderful results.
The YYLC students began the year creating cubes to be joined together in a collaborative mural inspired by the street art of LA based artist, Thank YouX. We then moved on to exploring tone with watercolour bubble paintings.

This term we have been exploring the art element of Form. The YYLC students had two fun weeks of collaboration and creativity while exploring this element.
Week 1: Students worked in small groupsto build an abstract sculpture using the various materials and items provided to them. The once catch was that there was no glue or tape to help with their constructions. This activity was inspired by the 'Kitchen Table Sculptures' of British artist, Henry Ward. Once students had completed their sculptures, they had to photograph them before dismantling their work.

Week 2: This week the only material that students had for their sculptures was strips of paper. However, they were allowed to use gluesticks. The challenge for these sculptures was to manipulate the paper strips in ways to give their sculpture structural integrity. The goal was to build the tallest freestanding sculpture.

This term our SLC students explored Colour, Texture, Line and Shape by creating wonderful Emotions Characters. Inspired by the work of Melbourne artist, Brendan Huntley, the students explored different emotionsand how they can be represented through the different elements of art. This project ran across three lessons and the results were fantastic.

Term 2 has been special for the Yan Yean students, working with our visiting artist, Lauren. We have been making ceramic tiles which will be assembled into a mural to display as a legacy piece. The students have thoroughly enjoyed the process and we have all learnt a lot. The tiles were sculpted, then  fired in a kiln, and then glazed. They will now go into the kiln again for their final firing.
​PLC have been busy too. We explored collage and the students all had lots of fun.

Everyone has started term 2 well. With the help of my Art Captains we got our YYLC Drip Mural up on the wall. 
The YYLC students also began to explore the Art Element of Line through cross hatching. The results were amazing.

The PLC students were introduced to watercolour pencils this term to decorate their flowers for our whole school Harmony Week project. I am sure you will agree they did a wonderful job.

This term we have all hit the ground running. It has been fantastic to have such a busy art room with so much amazing art being made.
PLC - The new Preps have been amazing. They have been learning about primary and secondary colours and we have already had fun using paint to mix colours.
SLC - The SLC students showed their amazing collaboration skills by creating a vibrant City Collage. I was so proud of how beautifully they worked together.
CLC - We explored Roman Mosaics, by creating our own paper mosaic pieces. We did this by first painting our pages to be cut up for tiles and then creating our pieces.
YYLC - Using the work of Jen Stark for inspiration, students worked independently or in pairs to create pieces for our drip mural.  Our goal is to turn all the pieces into a cohesive mural by the end of term.