Last week, Susie, from the Art Gallery, came out and helped us plan and draw murals about what we can remember from the Art Centre prior to the earthquakes. We included pictures of the sculptures, buildings, tram, jugglers and lots more.
Some lovely Art Gallery workers then transferred our art work onto large pieces of wood (220cm by 120cm)
Today we travelled into the Art Centre and painted the murals. It took us from 10 o'clock until 2.30 to get everything finished. Firstly we painted all the bigger areas of colour and then the smaller areas and then finally we used black paint and very small paint brushes to add detail. Then just like true artists we signed our names on the murals.
Even though we all had painting shirts on there seemed to be quite a lot of paint on clothes, legs, shoes and some even made it to faces!!!!
A big thank you to all the wonderful parent helpers and Will Perkins, your painting ability was quite good! :)
The 8 murals will be displayed in the Art Centre Market Square for everyone to see.
A BIG THANK YOU to Susie, (we love working with you), and the Art Gallery workers for all your hard work drawing our pictures out on to the wood.
Another BIG THANK YOU to Andre, Arts Centre CEO, for letting us come in and for the water bottles and ice blocks.
We are very proud to be part of the re-start of the Art Centre and proud of our art work.
Hi Room 19 and Miss Tempero
ReplyDeleteGeorgia and I were just checking out your awesome blog when we saw that you are famous!!! Wow, you’re in the press for the amazing artworks you have done with the Gallery as part of the re-start of Christchurch. We can’t wait to check your artworks out this summer as we’re your number one fans! You must feel so special to know that you were chosen to make art that all of Christchurch and those who visit here can see and admire. What a lucky class you are to have such a cool teacher who goes to so much trouble to organise all these great experiences for you to be actively involved in! You are one very talented class of learners – what with achieving so highly with your blog in the Interface National Competition, getting to the finals for your Ancient Greece movie and now being involved with an amazing art project for Christchurch! – I can’t help wonder what other great things you’ll be up to next. I wish Georgia was bigger so that she could be in Room 19 doing all this fun stuff. Part of me wishes that I was smaller so that I could join in too . I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a fun filled holiday. Keep safe and keep smiling. Big Christmas hugs from us. Love Georgia and Mrs Davies xx