Month: October 2024

The Gr. 4/5 Art classes have just completed a study of the artist Sonia Delaunay. She was a French artist, born in Ukraine, who was married to another well known artist named Robert Delaunay. She had a very modern and unique style that often used lines and circles. Her style came to be known as Orphism. Sonia studied colours, and liked to use complementary colours to make her work bold and bright. Complementary colours are colours that are opposite each other on the colour wheel. She also applied her style and colour theory to textiles, fashion, and design. She even painted a car!

Here are a few examples of our students’ work inspired by Sonia Delaunay:

Brentwood Park students honoured the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation with a meaningful assembly. Each class created a tile that represented the learning and deep conversations around this difficult part of Canada’s history. Here are a few of the tiles we created in our art classes.

Divisions 12 and 16 talked about how students should feel when they come to school. (A right and a privilege that Residential School attendees did not have). We wove our ideas together.

Division 11 talked about empathy, and used hearts to show connections to each other.

International Dot Day celebrates the well-known Peter H. Reynolds book “The Dot”, where a frustrated artist learns to make her mark using… you guessed it… dots! Through this book we learn that being an artist is more than just drawing. You just have to start by making your mark, and have an open mind to where your creativity can lead. Like Vashti, we started our art classes this year by investigating the places a simple dot could take us.