The quick look

Our puppets

3rd Year

Puppets need to be light and must move. We are using bottles and rolled up paper to make our bodies. The dog is made with model magic over balled up newspaper. The scarecrow is Hessian with stitching and buttons.

Work By: Raven Gabriel and Josh Downes

Luca Pezzillo O'Brien

3rd Year

One of my tips for mastering Batik is patience. Patience is key to getting it right and decreasing the risk of mistakes even though mistakes can be good in some Batik work as it can make your art seem surrealistic and very imaginative. I would recommend sketching out a layout of your piece before starting, this way you can know precisely what you are doing. Make use of a range of coloured dyes this can really make your batik a very vibrant piece of artwork.

Junjie lin

3rd Year

"I'm writing Chinese calligraphy with a Chinese calligraphy brush. I learned this while I was in China. You hold the brush differently to the pencil - you hold it with all of your fingers. I use pressure changes for thick and thins."

Jack Keane

3rd Year

"I got the metallic, shiny sheen for my sculpture by mixing silver paint and a small bit of gold very thoroughly with a deep green shade. This created the sparkling effect on the face of the sculpture."

Conor Maher

3rd Year

Great use of warm and cool colours here.

david goodall

3rd Year

This piece of calligraphy makes great use of colour harmonies. The yellow and blues used throughout the design makes for strong unity of design.

sean kilcullen

3rd Year

This block print shows unity of design through a vertical pattern of lines used in the mid and dark tones.

Jack Sheehy

3rd Year

This piece of calligraphy has been beautifully made to incorporate two wooden dowels. This allows the piece to be rolled up and viewed as a scroll.

Sean Kenny

First Year

"This was an interesting experiment as I have not drawn from real life before. I thought it was impossible but once I put the viewfinder on the keys, I closed one eye and I could clearly see every line, every curve, every shadow. By the end I was amazed to see that my drawing resembled real keys."

David Goodall

3rd Year

"I used a Winsor Newton brushmaker instead of the normal chisel pens that are ordinarily used for calligraphy. Applying pressure created thicks and thins."

Luke Jakob

3rd Year

"I spend a lot of time mountain biking in my free time and what made this project easier was that I was exploring what I really like to do."

Research

FINAL block print

Corey Whyte

3rd Year

"I am making a building with clay slabs. I cut them using my own stencils. I let them partially dry. I then attached them using slip and scoring. I then used coils at the joints"

David Carroll

2nd Year

"Im working on my CBA and my theme is grotesque. I am exploring scary faces and masks. My primary sources are halloween masks. I took my own photos in a dark room but used a lamp to create dramatic light. I found images in the Guinness Book of Records of people and I have been studying Goya because his paintings display grotesque qualities."

tim harrington

3rd Year

"I began drawing tonal studies related to my theme 'Nice One'. I combined my drawings to a final composition (the way my image is laid-out). As I am preparing for a block print, I wanted to bring out the player. I used contrasts of lights and darks around the player. Notice the white outline around the sock and hair and the dark outline around the white leg, face and shirt. I used diagonal lines in the background to bring your eye to the goal."

Prep work

final design (marker)

final Block Print

Gerard McKendry

3rd Year

"I am using a program 'FireAlpaca' to digitally paint a picture of my dog. I'm using a pressure sensitive drawing tablet (WACOM). Pressure sensitivity allows me to vary tone and line width in my drawings. David Hockney does this in some of his work."

On this drawing, I used a drawing tablet called the Wacom Intuos Draw. Using this, I was able to vary pressure sensitivity depending on how hard I pushed down on the tablet with the pen. This allowed me to vary line opacity or size.

I also used the Airbrush tool to blur colours into each other, and I used the "Gaussian Blur" tool to blur the objects in the background, giving a feeling of depth.

Conor Maher

3rd Year

Focusing on personal interests

A beautiful composition of bike, tree and plants.

Conor Totterdell

3rd Year

"I'm working on the theme water and my approach is on pollution. I am taking sources from my environment "Primary Sources" and developing my finished work. My finished works include a puppet and a sculpture."

Primary sources

In the Visual Art studio, we aim to explore and respond to our own environments. Therefore it is essential that students use primary sources; objects that they have access to or photos that they have taken. Interesting primary sources make for interesting drawings so get searching!

Work by: Art Nolan, Ethan Doyle and Evan Walsh (1st Year)

Lance wilde

Designs for a sculpture

Looking at liquids...notice the highly contrasted white highlights on the reflective surfaces; thats how you make forms look shiny. Also notice the light cast shadow in front of the glass...the light shines through!

Daniel Williams

Unifying different materials

"I made my sculpture with wire and foam board. I then spray painted this as one rather then spray painting the cogs separately from the wire. This made the piece look like it was one golden sculpture"

Craig Pritchard

A great exploration of texture and tone using drawing pencils.

Robert Bateman

Here is an example of a primary source brought out into nature and photographed by the artist. As the final product will be a block print, the artist has first selected a composition within his photograph and then simplified the composition to 2 tones using a black marker.

Work by Jack Golden

From Tone to colour

A quick way to begin exploring colour in drawing is to first create a tonal drawing with pencils or black colour pencil and photocopy it. Then draw straight over it with colouring pencils. This is just like the masters - an underpainting followed by a colour layer.

Tommy Lang

3rd Year

"The idea came to me to do a sculpture on lights whist out for a walk at night seeing lit up street lamps, it reminded me of the poem ‘Acquainted with the night’. I used a glass bowl as a container for the inside lamp and to make the whole piece resemble a light bulb."

Gavin Henderson

5th Year

A beautiful use of markers to create this wonderful jungle scene.

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