Archive for December, 2009
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon’s work feature bleak, distorted, violent and even nightmarish portraits of friends, contemporaries, religous or historical figures. He has explored this theme through Paint, Collage, Drawing, Printing and Mixed Media.
Alternative Portrait Project
Pupil Example: Anthony 2009
Puppet Project
The puppet project we deliver in Key Stage 3 develops our learners understanding of Portraiture, Distortion, Caricature, Scale, 3D Construction and Modelling techniques. We use the completed puppets to develop story telling skills and performances that cover whole school themes e.g. Anti-bullying and School Code of Conduct. We also use them to muck about and simply entertain!
Puppet Project
Pupil Example: Craig 2009
Student Blog: Surfaces and Nava Lubelski
This entry was written by Abbey who is currently studying Art and Design and Textiles in year 13
The idea of using stains as a theme for the surfaces project came accidentally when I lifted up my cup to see a ring stain left on a piece of cloth. I started to create and develop stains investigating how they reacted with different materials and surfaces e.g. paper, large wooded areas and fabric.
To extend the stains experiments further I introduced photographic chemicals and the Photogram/Raygram process inspired by Man Ray introducing a series of drips and exploring the positive and negative space.
I was very pleased with how the ring stains on the photogram turned out and decided to experiment with these pictures using ICT, scanning them onto photoshop and manipulating the colours.
From there I moved into 3D and relief casting as I wanted to explore the outcome of lifting the stains looking at the height and depth while using the same colour scheme from my ICT experiments.
Recently I have been experimenting with ‘accidental’ stains e.g where a cup of tea was thrown at a white dress, whilst maintaining the colour scheme from previous works. I’ve stitched around the stains to enhance them which is influenced by Nava Lubelski who stitches around stains on table cloths, canvas, paper and sheets to expose the beautiful, colourful abstract movement of the stain.
Nava Lubelski
Pupil Showcase: Photography
Pupil Showcase
We are showcasing the photographs of Liz a Year 10 BTEC Art and Design student. Liz’s work was awarded a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Photography prize for her submission on the theme of Science and Engineering.
More images are available from Departmentart Flickr page .