Book Week

The librarian and I worked together to promote book week books. The students looked at the illustrations and made their own versions of the book covers.

When you walk the corridors...

This is some of the art you will see.

Or you can walk up the other way

Our corridors are pretty scenic.

Modigliani makes his mark

Modigliani is also famous for his portraits of women with elongated necks, long nose, big eyes, and small mouths - like Alice.

As you enter the front foyer

Your eye catches sight of:

Reilly Rat for Book Week

Make Believe Cities at Night

First we ran a bead of paint along the bottom of the page, and with a piece of hard cardboard, we pulled the paint up the page. When it was dry, we added bridges, windows, trees, sopider webs and other fantasy elements.

John Brack's wife Helen

More ideas from Book Week

Ella Kazoo Will Not Brush Her Hair

This is from Book Week 2007.

Jackson Pollock inspired these exploding suns

Fanciful Fairies

Portrait inspired by Paul Klee

Paul Klee (1879 - 1940) was one of the 20th century's most significant artists. He was Swiss. During World War 1, he painted camouflage on airplanes. He was mainly known for the way he manipulated colour and taught lessons on colour mixing and colour theory.

Here is an example of a junior school student's portrait in the style of Paul Klee.