Enjoy the break...

Well done to our students during their first term. They have produced some fantastic work and have put in a lot of effort. Now time for a two week break...

We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year!

Unit 1 Cubism

One of our students loves looking at things in different ways. Inspired by Picasso and Hockney here are her examples...and a pencil study.

Almost time for Christmas...

But we haven't stopped working.

Here's where we're up to...

Bones and vanitas Unit 1

Using Leonardo da Vinci as inspiration, one of our students is looking at Vanitas to develop her unit 1 theme. Here's where she is up to...

Mono printing for Unit 1

One of our students has started exploring mono printing as part of recording. Here's the work she produced.

Close up Unit 1

One of our student's themes for unit 1 is close up looking at Sarah Graham fro inspiration. Some beautiful photographs and drawings I think you'll agree.

Charactures Unit 1

Charactures are difficult portraits to do as you have to focus on something about the person. One of our students has taken on this challenge as part of his Unit one work looking at the artist Jason Seiler. He has reproduced one of his works and started developing his own.

Unit 1 Projects

Our students have been working on their personal projects for the past week. They're developing skills in drawing here.

Symbolism and Semiotcs

When we start to look at objects a different way, objects begin to have different meanings which can be personal to the artist or have a general social meaning. Our students have looked at symbolism and approached it in a variety of different ways.

Welcome back

Welcome back to the second half term!

We hope you've had a lovely October break and are refreshed and ready for college.

This term the Y12 students will be starting their individual projects and developing their coursework portfolio in their specialist areas.

Let's keep up the good work!

The Art Department

Visit to our trust school

Last day of term and we're finally going on a visit...

To inspire our students on their personal unit 1 work, we visited one of our trust schools to have a look at what they were up to. Beautiful work I'm sure you'd agree.

Chuck Close Portrait Artist

One of the artists to research for portraiture is Chuck Close. We are amazed by the detail and precision needed to produce work like this. Using a gridding technique he has been able to produce photorealism detail

 

Sense of Place and Point of View

Yet another week, and another art theme. Students used their own understanding of the theme A Sense of Place or Point of View.

Look at how much work our students have done!

Watch the video below to see our students at work on their work.

Textile collage

Looking at the artist Cas Holmes, students have created their own examples.

Sarah Graham Photorealism

We've found this amazing photorealist artist and we love her work for its close up, bright colours and of course SWEETS! 

 

 

Photography and Photoshop

As part of our students' induction into art and design, they have produced some fantastic photographs using a variety of themes such as worm's eye view, reflection, depth of field and macros and then edited some using Photoshop