Do you love to draw, paint and make things?
Artists love to create.
They make drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures and other things for us to look at.
They use colours, patterns and shapes that make us feel all sorts of emotions.
Do you love to draw, paint and make things?
Artists love to create.
They make drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures and other things for us to look at.
They use colours, patterns and shapes that make us feel all sorts of emotions.
Explore some of the artworks from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, become an artist and create your own wonderful artworks.
Look at these artworks by Australian artist Jeffrey Smart.
Jeffrey Smart enjoyed creating artworks that show the beauty of the industrial world.
He painted scenes of city life in bright light, using interesting angles, shapes and viewpoints to make them look extraordinary.
Create your own geometric cityscape influenced by Jeffrey Smart's art.
Remember, you are the artist so you can decide the colours you will use, how many buildings will be in your city and if there will be trees, people of cars.
You will need:
Scissors
Glue stick
Coloured paper
Paper or card for the background
Your imagination!
Lay your coloured paper out in front of you.
Decide if you want all of your buildings to be the same height or shape.
Will some be squares, maybe some will have pointed tops?
Cut the paper into the sizes and shapes you want and lay them out on your background paper.
Move them around until you like how it looks.
Use the leftover pieces of paper to make little squares and shapes that can become the windows for your buildings or architectural features.
Arrange the windows and shapes on the buildings.
You can use as many as you like and arrange them in different patterns and lines.
Do you want to add trees?
If you do, cut or rip more paper into tree shapes or bushes and plants and add them to your picture.
What about cars or trucks?
You could also make more symmetrical buildings by folding more paper and cutting the windows out so they are the same on each side.
When you are happy with your arrangement, stick all the pieces to your background paper.
There you go, a colourful constructed cityscape of your very own!
Here are some more examples for inspiration.
