Art News

Year 8 Monogram Logo

Purpose

• To understand how logos are used to inform and convey information
• To look at developing and presenting information in a variety of ways digitally
• To understand how colour can be used to create a logo’s image

Task

To design a Monogram based on the students' initials; first name and 

family name.

Design limitations:

• Use 2 or 3 letters only
• The initials must be based contained within a shape
• It can be no larger than 4 x 4cm
• It must be coloured

Magazine Cover Year 11 Task

Brief

To design a cover for an imaginary issue of DG magazine with the theme: Famous Designers. 

• The SUBJECT can be, for example from any era. 
• The work of one or more designers.
• The work of a group of designers that constitutes a particular style or movement.
• A generic sub-group of design (such as fashion, graphic, typography, industrial, performing arts etc.) 

Year 7-9 Bear Illustration Competition

This term, the Year 7, 8 & 9 art students completed an Illustration Task after being inspired by the writer and graphic illustrator, Mandy Ord. Our students created their own illustrations of three bears, they were able to use any media and materials to complete the task. 

Our talented students were asked to choose their favourite illustration to display, which they would enter into our competition. There was a vast array of outstanding artworks across all three year levels. The judging panel debated long and hard in order to choose the three finalists for each year level. 

We would like to congratulate everyone on their outstanding work.

And the winners are:

Year 7

1st Place: Sri Venkataraman

Highly Commended: Elizabeth Wong & Jaali Roache

Year 8

1st Place: Lily McDonald

Highly Commended: Ava Renton & David Scott

Year 9

1st Place: Claudia Ong

Highly Commended: Audrey Ho & Zoe Harel-Schwarzenberg

A special message from Mandy Ord…

Thanks so much for sending through the pictures of the artwork the students created.

I am so impressed. Their work looks fantastic!!!

Love the bears, they look good all together like that. Wonderfully colourful and so many great designs.

It’s one thing I miss seeing when I present the Zoom workshops, seeing the outcome from the students.

It’s my favourite thing to see their work, so thank you for sharing these with me.

Please pass on my congratulations to them.

Cheers,

Mandy

Symbolist Mixed Media Artwork

Year 10 Visual Art students studied the work of the Symbolist poets and artists and created a Symbolist styled artwork, based on their interpretation of the song lyrics, Red Right Hand.

Year 10 Photography Still Life

Students investigated and developed individual concepts in order to create a series of Still Life  photographs. They then refined their images to choose one image which represented their personal theme. I would like to congratulate them on their successful images. The students achieved a high standard and completed the majority of this work during remote learning.

Bernadette McIvor: Head of Art

Ben Wickham: Art Teacher

Karyn Lindner: Art Teacher