Room
19 is learning ART from Fatu Feu’u
Visual art
has been challenging, thrilling and gratifying because we have been learning
about the artist Fatu Feu’u who is of Samoan decent and isinspired by Polynesian
art forms such as siapo (tapa cloth) and
tatau (tattoo).
We started the art journey
by viewing and responding to Fatu’s art and we could see our heritage painted
and printed in his work. This then lead us to practising our own observational
drawings of his work using pencil, crayon and chalk.
As part of
enriching the visual art experience we were lucky to obtain the art expertise
of Ms Sewell who spent two art lessons in our classroom teaching us the
foundation prints of siapo art forms. Ms Sewell also taught us how to use
our digital tools to take photos, crop these photos and then display and rotate
these photos in the app educreations. Having a special art teacher made
us appreciate the art form more because it is always nice to have different
teachers come in to teach us something they love and are great at.
We look
forward to learning about the artist Dick Frizzel in term four and hope one day
we can be as great at siapo designs as Fatu and Ms Sewell are.
