The Impasto technique

Tautoru are well into their Arts learning. In Visual Arts we have previously learnt how to hold a paintbrush, mixing colours, sketching techniques and how to hold a pencil effectively when sketching. In Music, we have learnt about listening to the beat and making our own beats with simple notation.

This week, we are learning a new painting technique called Impasto. We are basing our artwork off the artist, Banksy, with this portrait.

Here is the Impasto technique we followed. We talked about the new language of 'dubbing' the paintbrush, 'loading' the paintbrush so there is lots of paint and the different 'elements' that will be shown in each picture (such as Tanē Mahuta pushing Ranginui and Pāpatuanuku apart).

We started with an apple on small card to practise the impasto technique of 'dubbing' the brush with small strokes and thick paint rather than long strokes. We had to use a lot of Perseverance as this was very different to what we are used to!

We did a museum walk where we walked around the room to look at each others work. Then, we gave each other feedback before we moved onto our painting of Ranginui and Pāpatuanuku.

In Writing, we have been retelling the beginning, middle and end of the Creation myth of Ranginui and Pāpatuanuku so we were all very clear on how the myth went.

We then got into groups and decided who was going to paint the beginning, who was going to paint the middle and who was going to paint the end of the Māori myth.

We are going to put our art together into the sequence of the story just like how the artist model has lots of different paintings that make up one whole art piece.