Our Japanese Visitors... In the Art room.

Students from Japan visited our school, they spent a couple of hours in the art room making decorated stress-balls. 

Year Eight Spiral Quotes

Year eights were asked to research a quote about Art, Creativity, Art Element create a page in their visual journals exploring these quotes. Choose one to write in a spiral and decorate. The focus was Colour, patterns and design. Here are some of their examples.

Year eight Art - practice painting getting ready to paint their own Death Mask designs.

Year eight Art - working on a individual design of a death mask. Task one research what is a death mask is? Task two design their own, task three paint using gouche paints. Focusing on the design of COLOUR. 

Year eight Advanced Art - Abstract Expressionist Eyes.....

This term we are looking at expressionism - the use of colour and brush strokes to express what we are trying to say or see, rather than what it represents We chose eyes, simple, expressive In their own right.  The following is examples of my students painting over the top of A3 photocopies of eyes. We started with three colours (light, mid and dark tone) coloured oil pastels. We finished by using a dark highlighting acrylic paint, applied with our fingers. 

Presentation the edges of the paper were ripped and presented on card.

Teacher example ........

Well after these we went one step further and designed an eye in colour. Each student was given a canvas board and acylic paint some works in progress.....