Art News

Today we had a presentation from years 7B, 7F and 7H to the Warrnambool Police Station representatives, Acting Senior Sargent David McDonald and Lucinda Priestley of an artwork created by the students of those classes.

Tahlee Dannatt, Jaylah Farey-Williams and Ireland Pickett spoke about the process that the students went through from the initial idea.

Warrnambool College Art department received a request from Ms. Priestley at the Warrnambool Police station to create a large Merry Christmas painting, for their social club, with a middle island back drop (Oddball’s island) with a holden, driven by Santa, driving off with a divvy van chasing it.

Ms. Knight’s year 7 classes,  (75 students in total) began an initial brainstorming of ideas writing them up on the board.

Students then began drawing the ideas into their visual diaries.

Ms. Knight then combined all of their images into a collage. 

Each class shuffled, added or subtracted images until we had the final plan in place.

Students began drawing a grid onto the canvas. 

Once the grid was drawn, they worked on transferring all the drawings onto the canvas.

As the drawing came to an end the painting began.  The painting process took 2 weeks.

The canvas is 2 metres by 2 metres, painted with acrylic paints and finished with a coat of varnish.

Mr Matheson spoke about the importance of connecting with community and commended the students for their collaboration and achievement.

Acting Senior Sargent David McDonald thanked the students and school, on behalf of the Warrnambool Police Social Club that provided the funds for the materials for the project.  They are still finalising the location within the station where the work will hang and invited the students down to see once it is in place.