Friday, 11 December 2015

Friday, 13 November 2015

Recent work by some of the Art Scholars

The Art Scholars have been working hard at home and in the Thursday night scholar sessions in order to build up their portfolio. Here are some examples of some of the pupils' recent work. 


Willa    8B

Lena  8SM

Eric 8JB

India 8JB
Zara  8B

Friday, 2 October 2015

Year 5 Self Portrait Studies

Year 5 are exploring self portraits this term and spent a lesson drawing a detailed study in their sketchbooks using pencil. They were asked to focus on correct facial proportion and the different details of the face, such as eye lashes and freckles. The students are now embarking on their final pieces which will be painted in the style of the artist Chuck Close




Hector 5LR

Poppy  5M
George  5M

Hannah  5M

Mary  5LR


Year 8 Experimental Shoe Paintings

Year 8 spent a lesson creating experimental shoe paintings using the end of paintbrushes and swatches of cardboard dipped into black acrylic as their method of mark-making. 

Lena  8SM

Arabella  8JB
Ellie  8B







Thursday, 17 September 2015

Year 7 Mixed Media Self Portraits


Here is just a small selection of the mixed media self portraits produced by last years Year 7 in the Summer Term. The theme was 'Split Personality' and the pupils produced a portrait consisting of four different mediums (acrylic, pencil, fine-liner and collage). They also wrote in the background of two of the sections. The writing in pencil was that students' dislikes, whilst the writing in fine-liner was their loves.  


Ginny 

Guy 

India 

Zara 

Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Art Scholar Skulls

The Year 7 pupils working towards an Art Scholarship for next year have started building their portfolios this term. Here are some examples of skull paintings created using acrylic and charcoal. 

Willa 7T

Amber 7E

Mia 7JLB



Year 6 Kinetic Sculptures

This term Year 6 have been exploring the theme of 'Movement'. They researched the kinetic sculptor George Rickey before creating their own kinetic sculpture using wire and tissue paper. 

Agatha 6W

Amber 6P


Scarlet 6C

Wilbur 6W



Wednesday, 20 May 2015

Year 8 Surrealist Collages

This half of term Year 8 have been completing a collage project based upon the work of the Surrealist movement of the 1920's and 30's. The pupils began by researching the movement and the artists involved, such as Max Ernst and Salvador Dali. The pupils then collected images from magazines, concentrating on scale before placing them in a dreamlike arrangement.I think Dali would approve with the art that Year 8 have produced! 

Bea 

Izzy 



Beth 

Freya 

Lydia

Harvey 

Molly 
Theo 

Alex 

Lotte 

Tuesday, 12 May 2015

Experimental Mark Making with Year 5

This term Year 5 are studying the theme of 'Movement'. As part of this, the pupils spent a lesson exploring movement through experimental mark making. The first half of the lesson was spent creating their own paintbrushes from a range of natural and man-made materials. In the second half of the lesson the students painted with their new paintbrushes using ink. A wide variety of effects were created in this way. The drawings that the pupils created in this lesson will be incorporated into a larger final piece later in the term.