A Day in the Life - Art Studio
A Day in the Life of the Art Studio
At Living Waters Lutheran School, our Art Studio is a place where creativity bursts off the page — and sometimes onto iPads, canvases, and even collages of torn paper! Every child is an artist-in-the-making, learning not only how to create but also why art matters in sharing stories, culture, and identity.
Why it Matters for Your Child
Visual Arts at Living Waters is about more than just making pretty pictures. It’s about:
- Building confidence to express ideas
- Developing skills and creativity across media
- Understanding culture, community, and identity
- Growing as relational, purposeful, adventurous and compassionate little artists who flourish in every sense
Here, every student has the opportunity to see themselves as an artist — and to share their voice with the world.
Help your child flourish by helping them grow in a community where creativity is celebrated every day.
Lower Primary (Foundation – Year 2)
Our youngest artists explore “Who I am and who we are” through drawing, painting, collage, and digital media. Whether it’s a rainy-day iPad challenge, a joyful self-portrait, or a colourful collage inspired by local artists, students learn that art is about expressing feelings, ideas, and connections.
They know: artworks tell stories about people and place.
They do: experiment with colour, texture, and tools to share their own.
Upper Primary (Years 3 – 6)
As students grow, so does their artistic confidence. Upper Primary dive deeper into portraiture, exploring how symbols, backgrounds, and composition can express complex stories. With their own developing Art Folios, they reflect, plan, and experiment like practicing artists.
From painting adventurous landscapes to comparing Archibald Prize portraits on excursion, students discover how art connects culture, community, and identity.
They know: artists make choices to communicate meaning.
They do: create, reflect, and refine artworks with purpose and imagination.
Whole School Highlights
- Curious Collages inspired by Charles Jangala Inkamala’s Country
- Adventurous Landscapes with Painting
- Exploring Araluen & the Archibald Prize – connecting Portraits and Place
- Investigating why, how, and what artists do, including local wisdom stories
And the show-stopper? Five of our young creatives were selected as Young Archies Mparntwe finalists, their portraits proudly displayed alongside the Archibald Prize at Araluen Gallery.