Artist of the Week

Tayla-Jayne Peachman

Untitled

Acrylic paint on canvas

Tayla-Jayne of Banksia year 12 has been exploring the theme of 'mortality' and looking at the macabre throughout history in her Units 3 & 4 VCE Art studies. This painting is part of Tayla-Jayne's exploration of her chosen theme.

KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK TAYLA-JAYNE!

Muhammad Zabhi

Biggie Smalls

2021

Blender, graphite pencils, fineliner, pastels, coloured pencils and white fineliner. Reference photo; “I’ve got a story to tell” Netflix documentary cover image.

Muhammad of Acacia year 9 voluntarily entered his drawing 'Biggie Smalls' into the running for Artist of the Week and has been chosen as this week's winner! Muhammad has provided the following explanation of the process he followed to create his artwork;

"First I outlined the whole thing with a blender, so it’s lines and face shape are a bit visible to trace over and it’ll fade away in a few days either way. The next thing I did was just draw/sketch the artwork (left side) like usual. Once I was done with that, I wanted to try out something different which was colouring the right side. It took about 3 weeks to complete. Then I used pastels to darken the background of the right side. On the bottom I decided to add some small detail with fineliners, which was to cover up the empty spot. In the end I tried to use the white fineliner to add small detail for it to shine more."

IMPRESSIVE WORK MUHAMMAD!

Destiny Chea

Self Portrait

Silk Screen Print

Destiny of Banksia year 11 has been exploring the theme of 'self portraiture' in her Units 1 & 2 VCE Art studies. She created this silk screen print using the litho paper carving method. This artwork is a representation of Destiny as a child

FANTASTIC WORK DESTINY!

Jacob Ciardullo

Lemon & Lime Cafe

Adobe Illustrator

Jacob of Banksia year 10 studied branding design in his Visual Communication Design class. He developed a fictitious business to create a logo for and developed these two creative solutions to the design problem using a range of Adobe Illustrator tools and effects.

AWESOME DESIGN SKILLS JACOB!

Wanda Nguyen

Lacerta the SandWing/RainWing Hybrid Dragon

2021

iPad app called IbisPaint

Wanda of Banksia year 7 voluntarily entered 'Lacerta' into the running for Artist of the Week and has been chosen as this week's winner! Wanda has provided the following explanation of the process she followed to create her digital artwork;

"First, for my first sketch, I used a red pencil to sketch on my iPad, and after that, I traced the outlines with a soft pen. After doing that, I used a bucket to colour in my drawing and then put shadings to make it look slightly 3D, using an airbrush. I used a magic wand to select the area I wanted to shade in. Finally, I used a magic wand again to select the background to colour in".

KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK WANDA!