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

Anthony Bacon Portrait

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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

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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.

Abbey stain

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.

Abbey Rayograph1

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.

Abbey Paint

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.

Stains 3D Plaster Relief

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.

abbey stitch stain

Nava Lubelski

nava

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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.

Liz Photography


More images are available from Departmentart Flickr page .