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Year 7 Visual Arts: Colour Scheme Paintings

Year 7 students have been learning about colour theory and how the colour wheel works. Students have developed their understanding of harmonious colours and complementary colour to develop a colour scheme for their paintings. The students chose a painting design to apply their colour schemes and developed their painting and fine motor skills.

Year 8 Monogram Logo

Year 8 students designed a Monogram Logo based on their initials; first name and family name. The purpose of the work is:

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

Students explored the Design Elements of Type, Shape and Colour while utilising various media or Adobe Illustrator to produce a logo for a business card or swing tag. Students learnt about the Design Process working and following a ‘brief’ which includes design limitations.

Year 9 Drink Label

Students investigated how designers glamorise products in order to attract the consumer’s attention. They applied this knowledge to create a label to promote their new drink. Students either used manual drawing techniques or utilised Adobe Illustrator and PhotoShop to create their final design.

Year 9 Visual Arts: Expressive Eyes Task 

You have probably heard the phrase: ‘the eyes are the windows to the soul’. Portrait artists throughout history have tried to depict a glimpse into the soul of their subjects using a variety of expressive styles. In this unit students explored a range of media and techniques to create an expressive self-portrait artwork based on the subject matter of ‘Expressive Eyes’. Each final artwork has been created on the surface of a timber block using each student’s preferred media. Most students chose from oil pastel, acrylic paint, charcoal, soft pastel or pencil.

Bernadette McIvor: Head of Visual Arts & VCD Teacher 

Ben Wickham: Art Teacher

Karyn Lindner: Art & VCD teacher