Our School Art Exhibition

On the Wednesday 1st of July, St Francis Xavier School is going to have an art exhibition for you to see our artwork. It'll be on from 4 PM - 6 PM. Room 7 will be doing Camborne Walkway, Kakahu Cloaks and Monet paintings. Some people in the school will be selling the artwork. There will be pizza, music and more...

We made our cloaks on Term 1. We cut out feather shapes, made a plait and made a border of a Maori pattern. We started Term 2 with Outdoor Education Week. We went to the Camborne Walkway. We sketched some things that we might have wanted to paint and we learned how to sketch a reflection on water. We learned how to do brush strokes and mix colours. We went to the Monet and Impressionists exhibition at Te Papa. We looked at some of Monet's paintings and some by other artists. Later that week, we worked on a canvas that shows a Camborne Walkway or one of the Monet's or the other impressionists painting. We did a bridge painting by Monet. We painted the background then ripped up tiny pieces to make a mosaic collage bridge. We gave our pictures titles that described the paintings. I named my cloak Mountains to Sea because it had colours like mountains and sea. I named my canvas The Two Boat Houses and my bridge Blue Bridge.


At "I See Red", an exhibition from Pataka, we saw a lot of red paintings. We found out that there are many names for red, paintings tell us a story, red was a very expensive colour and it can make people hungry. After that, we created frames for our paintings by shaping pieces of paper, scrunching, twisting, bending and folding paper along the cardboard. All of our frames were shiny and gold like the ones we saw at Te Papa. We spray painted them with metallic gold and bronze. They looked like the frames were actually made out of metal and we think they look awesome.

You should come here to see our wonderful artwork. You should buy a painting to help us fundraise to get technology, school supplies and more learning equipment. You will be entertained there and you can have fun too.