Art 

 

Year 7 Art

Students in 7J built their confidence and let their imaginations run wild producing their very own fantastic "Underwater World" drawings.  

Year 8 Art 

During remote learning in term 3, Year 8 Art students were asked to create a chair that would fit into a shoe box, from materials that they could gather from around their home.  

The students had to create the concept and build a chair of their own design that will fit in a shoe box.  The results have been absolutely fantastic.

Toby Randall

"My miniature rocking chair. I took inspiration after  I had recently just refurbished an old rocking chair that I found on the side of the road (picture above) so this was a fun project to do. It took longer than I expected but I found a couple of design errors that I forgot, like the centre of gravity of the chair to get a nice even rock and the rockers are not even. (I think it gives it character)

To make this chair I used some scrap bits of pine, some plywood and some 12mm dowels to put this all together, as for tools I used a drill press with a 12.5 mm drill bit, a hand saw, belt sander with 80 grit belt, wood glue, drill, 1.5mm drill bit, steel wire, a carving knife, paint brush and paint. 

I cut the pieces of pine, dowels and plywood with a handsaw, then I drilled the dowel hole with the drill press and glued the dowels in and let it dry. I then used the belt sander to make the rocker on the chair. I used the carving knife to round of some of the edges. I then twisted the wire with the drill and drilled some holes in the back of the rocker and another dowel (it wouldn’t rock properly so I added some dowels at the back to help.) and stuck them on. Then I painted it.

I had to add the dowels at the back because like I said before the centre of gravity was off, so this helped stabilise it and give a rocking motion.

The rocking chair is great but could have a smoother rock, and I could do that easily on the belt sander.

I very much enjoyed this task as I like to do practical, hands on work. I rate this chair an 8/10!

Zen LASATER-COHEN

My final product I'm happy with, the materials that I used making this chair was lollypop sticks and pva glue a small amount of materials, but they look clean all together. Throughout the task I was confused and worried about how and what I was going to use and make but I researched through some images and I found cool lollypop mini chairs and I thought that it would suit what I was thinking and planning of what I was going to do in my head really well.

The design of my chair is inspired by beach chairs where the back rest of the chair is slightly tilted so that it gives it more of the beach vibe and aspect to the chair was fairly easy to make with little product involved but at this stage I’m not very confident in my artistic abilities so that why I chose a simple but very clean beach chair to make.

Benn Schmidt

Year 10 Media Studies

Year 10 Media Students have been learning about the use of technical codes for their ‘Camera Techniques in Cinematography’ Performance Task. This involved students shooting a series of photographs and videos.

 that demonstrated  their understanding of Shot sizes, Camera Angles and Camera Movement’. Despite the challenges of lockdown, students found engaging ways of demonstrating these important film production skills.students found engaging ways of demonstrating these important film production skills.

Year 10 Studio Arts Photography

Year 10 Studio Arts Photography students have been busy during lockdown. They have been finding sources of artistic inspiration, studying key art terminology and photographic composition skills. Students have been pairing their practical work with analysis of the Elements and Principles of Art and Compositional Tools, and demonstrating these key skills in some interesting and creative ways.

Year 10 Quirky Couture

The students were asked to design their own bra using reclaimed, recycled or found materials/object.  This project was inspired by Samuelle Mazzi's book BRAHAUS.  

Year 11 Studio Art

The Year 11 Studio Arts group has been hard at work, exploring themes and ideas, developing their software skills in remote learning, and mastering effective analysis of the materials and techniques and ideas and meaning in the work of other artists.

For their folios, the themes that they are exploring are outlined in their ‘exploration proposal’, a statement of intent which forms the  guide for their practical work. Students have been developing a range of ‘potential directions’, which they will then use and develop to create their final folios. Some examples of their potential directions are shown here.’

Year 10 Visual Communication

Year 10 students have created some fantastic designs to re-purpose shipping containers.

Remote Art Works

There have been some students that have used their own time during stage 4 lockdown restrictions creating some wonderful pieces of art.

MacKenzie Thomas Yr 10

I used a lot of old material that hadn’t been used by a friend.

• It took 5 days to complete the front work and an additional 4 hours to add the wadding, the back piece and the boarder for it.
• I started from the centre and worked my way out for the patches as well as sewing all of it together.
• Because I had never used certain techniques from this project beforehand I came across some challenges.The centre patch is my favourite piece, but it took a while to wrap my head around the right way to sew it together. And I was nervous to go for it as this was the starting point of the project.
• Overall the few mistakes I made were cutting things a little bit shorter than needed (or not having enough, and working with what I had).
• My thread bunching up, snapping or getting caught as I was sewing.
• As it was my very first attempt at making a patchwork quilt, I’m very pleased with it, I’ve definitely learned from it and know how I can improve next time.
• I loved how well the patches look together, and how busy it looks.
• I love how Bo-Ho it looks and how different it is as well.

I wanted to add some colour to my room and change it up a bit, and I wanted to make something during quarantine to keep my busy. Plus I rediscovered how much I love sewing whilst off of school so I really wanted to start a new project

Emily Moyes Year 8

Mia Marquet Year 10