Year 9/10 Art
Year 9 and 10 Visual Art
Students have begun the term exploring prehistoric art and the origins of artistic expression. This week, students investigated ancient cave paintings by creating their own paint pigments using traditional techniques. They experimented with charcoal, rocks, dried clay, chalk, oil pastels, water and PVA glue to recreate the process of combining natural materials with binders such as animal fat and tree sap—similar to the methods used by some of the world’s earliest artists to produce the first known paints.
Years 9 and 10 3D Art
Students have been practicing the methods of conditioning, joining, and building with terracotta clay. They have so far excelled in the coil and pinch techniques of creating, with next week being the beginning of making their major projects using the slab method of building.
Cassandra Weeks
Art Teacher