By Andy Cheese, Teacher of Art
In this week’s Art update, I’m sharing some work from our Sixth Form students. These pieces are part of the work set over the Christmas holiday – some are prep and others are the students’ responses to mock exam papers. While online learning comes with its challenges, Art lessons have been very positive so far. See more of the students’ artwork below.
By Andy Cheese, Teacher of Art
Block 3 started their online Art lessons last week with a continuous line drawing exercise entitled ‘Messy Desk’. For this task, I asked students to draw a messy desk or kichen table, ensuring their pencil never left the paper. The students really enjoyed trying out this technique and produced some great drawings.
This week, we moved on to ‘exquisite corpse’, a method which was very popular in the early twentieth century with Surrealist poets and visual artists, who worked collectively to assemble words or images into a collage. I asked students to use this method themselves to make a three-part montage. They had a lot of fun putting these together and the results are really striking.
By Andy Cheese, Teacher of Art
In this week’s Art update, I thought I would share the projects from my 6.1 group. Since the start of term, they have been working on 2D and 3D projects under the theme of ‘Dystopian Worlds’.
All of the projects are individually led, and students have been using a range of techniques such as using clear casting resin to make a stained glass effect relief and making mosaic panels, pyrographic panels (burning or drawing into wood), cardboard constructions and clay modelling.
The work will go towards their folio of work for college applications and their final exam grades and a display of their work will be in an informal show from 9 December.
By Andy Cheese, Teacher of Art
This piece of sculpture was produced by Block 4 student Clemmie Pike. The theme of the project was ‘Portraiture’ and I tried to keep the ideas for the project as varied as possible. Clemmie spent a lot of time constructing a wire frame for the head and body. We then modelled a heat hardened clay into the forms. Once baked in the oven, Clemmie added the paint finish. The early end to the Spring term due to COVID-19 did mean that the sculpture has only now been finally completed ready for her folio presentation at Easter time next year. I was so impressed by Clemmie’s dedication to the project all those months ago, and it’s great to see it completed.
By Andy Cheese, Teacher of Art
During the first week of remote learning, I wanted to extend students’ drawing skills using a basic theme of ‘looking out the window’.
I supported this task with a sheet on what to focus on when drawing – for example, concentrate on the foreground detail, or make the background more interesting. I also added more support sheets on perspective – one and two-point – if some of the students wanted to complete some exercises while we are working from home.
You can see some of the finished pieces of work below.
By Dylan Hui
By George Bedford
By Jamie Bradbury
By Madeline Farley
By Matilda Celma Rodriguez-Fonseca
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