Flowers

Inspire your students with interesting mediums and techniques including found material sculptures, botanical collage projects, chalk pastel and alcohol ink artworks. This is a unit that will make your young artists bloom.

In the K-2 unit, students will create a magnificent imaginary garden using acrylic painting techniques taking into account radial symmetry, colour, pattern, and composition. Next, students will use craft techniques to create a sweet 3D artwork of a garden with abstract, representational flowers made from cupcake liners. Finally, students will combine fierce lions and sweet flowers to create a Dandy-Lion art project of flowers that roar. Students will use collage techniques and acrylic paint to create these friendly beasts on paper.

In the flower garden painting project, students will learn about colour, repetition, and pattern, as well as learning about radial symmetry. Students will have to consider how they will create a sense of balance and harmony with their colour choices and composition.  In the garden sculpture project, students will have to consider form, space, shape and size in selecting materials and the placement of materials in their artwork, to achieve an effective sculptural piece. In the dandy-lion art project, students will use printmaking and collage techniques, considering form and shape in their artworks to create an effective artwork that mixes different skills and techniques together.

Within the 3-4 year category, students will complete a serene collage of a Lily flower using découpage techniques and painted papers.  They will then be inspired by American modernist artist Georgia O’Keefe to create a representational enlarged image of a poppy flower using chalk pastels. In the lily project, students will have to consider colour, pattern and texture in the creation of their painted papers. The students will then consider their composition, using appropriate scale and size to decide where their flowers and leaves will be placed for the greatest effect on the viewer. Students will expand their representational art skills in considering the fine details of their reference images in order to create a recognisable depiction of a Lily flower, with stylised elements.

In the Georgia O’Keefe poppy project, students will enhance their representational drawing skills, learning to create a sketch from a reference image by starting with basic shapes and refining until the desired effect is achieved. They will consider contrasts of dark and light, using their reference images as a guide, and will consider colours, colour blending, and gradient effects to achieve a recognisable yet stylised poppy image that emulates Georgia O’Keefe’s style. Students have the opportunity to expand upon their compositional skills, representational drawing skills, and their use of colour, form, and shape in these fun floral artwork projects.

In the 5-6 year category, students will use découpage techniques and painted papers to create a magnificent artwork of Magnolia flowers. Next, they will learn how to create their own alcohol inks and then use the medium to create an abstract flower design on yupo paper. Finally, students will learn representational drawing techniques with chalk pastels to create a serene Viola flower image. In the Magnolia collage project, students will have to consider their artworks composition, deciding on the placement of flowers and leaves, and the colours they will select for each petal, leaf, and branch. This project will expand student’s knowledge of colour and contrast, as they will have to consider lights and darks in their artworks while they overlap sections of painted paper.

In the alcohol ink flower project, student will consider colour, form, shape, and size while spreading ink for their artworks, taking into account layering and colour placement as they add to their artworks.  In the Viola artwork, students will further enhance their ability to use contrast, tone, and colour to create representational objects by basing their artworks on reference images. In this project they will also have to consider the aspects of form, shape, size and space when sketching their Viola’s, to maintain a balanced and harmonious composition. This is a unit that will enhance the representational drawing skills of your young artists, and allow them to work with novel techniques and materials to produce some truly amazing artworks.