On Tuesday, Division 13 had an amazing experience with the artists from Arts Umbrella. The theme for our art was Creatures in the Ocean.  Arts Umbrella had massive poster boards covered with real pictures of creatures from the sea. Sarah, the Emily Carr trained artist, taught us how to sketch the creatures using shapes. She spoke about filling our papers up with a variety of sea creatures. She also suggested that some creatures could be in the foreground and others in the background. She also taught us not to worry too much about exactly “perfecting” our sketches, as we could change them once we coloured them in. Like last week’s lesson in class for our art cards, we used pastels, but this time we used oil pastels.  Sarah also spoke about layering colours on top of each other and trying to colour in the entire creature, as we were eventually going to be painting over everything with watercolour (resist). We look forward to sending home the gigantic art next week once all of our paintings have dried (some students finished their watercolour painting today.) Our art turned out amazing and we were so lucky to have had this in-school art experience!

Van Go Arts Umbrella Learning Outcomes:

• Students will make connections between art as a medium to express self, feelings, ideas and experiences, and art as a vehicle for relationship-building with self, others and the world

• Students will create individualized art compositions on paper utilizing oil pastel and watercolour resist, symmetry and balance, and blending