Kid's Vivid and Dye

Collaborative Art - The challenges we face as learners

GECKOS - YEAR 3-4

I love these quirky and colourful lizards completed with a class of my 7-9 year olds. We first explored the shape of lizards and then filled the lizards with designs - after studying patterning.

Opposing cool and warm colours were used for the foreground and background. A cool piece of art to do if you are reading the fabulous book 'Holes' by Louis Saacher. 

TAPA DESIGNS

Year 3-4 samples. Focus on symmetry and rotation. Children used a 'tea stain' home made dye, mixed with a watered down brown and red. They were carefully crumpled and unravelled to help the paper look more similar to tapa.  

WAIRAKA - LADY ON THE ROCK

This year 2 class used crayon rub and dye for the background, vivid for Wairaka, and a dyed sky.

SELF PORTRAITS

Quirky portraits a colleague and I I did with a year 3-4 class at the start of the year. A good initial indication of learners ability to use proportion and detail in their work.

KIWI

Year 3 samples. outlines filled with kiwiana motifs.

ALL ABOUT ME

An easy project to start the year. Trace around your hand and segment the page. Use different designs using vivid and dye, and write information about themselves in each section.

BUGS AND TURTLES

These were a bit of a 'fusion' between some aboriginal and pacific Island art we had studied. The year 3-4 class focussed on using detail within one central design, and framing the image using a symmetrical border.

DISASTER ART

We were learning about how to stay safe in civil defence emergencies, and these year 3-4 children children depicted a natural disaster using vivid and dye.