Celebrity Portraits!

Conall Mathur Dix

Sorcha McCooey



Josie Pollock

Charlie Stewart

Jamie Ukagba

Celebrity Portraits!

Moving on from the monochrome green paintings completed earlier in the term, Form II tried painting their favorite celebrities. Using just black, white and grey, the pupils painted the shadows, contours and planes of the face to bring to life their chosen celebrity. Check out the results!



Lucy Hancock

Sasha Cole

Felix Alyn Morgan



Charlotte Bennet

Green fingers!

Although it has been some time since we posted any pupil work, the art room has been a busy place with pupils  producing all kinds of things! In addition to  portfolio preparation, Form IV Photography and all the usual weekly lessons there have been junior and senior art trips to 'Sculpture in Context' at the Botanic Gardens, as well as the making of  props for the Form I and II plays which will be performed in the coming weeks. Posted today is work by Form II.

 

 After carrying out a colour mixing exercise, Form II used view finders to organise compositions with green fruit and vegetables.  We photographed the compositions and used them to refer to for the paintings. The objective of the lesson was to focus pupils attention on colour, shape, texture and composition.

 

 

Sasha Cole

Josie Pollock

Lucy Hancock

Charlotte Bennet

Marley Park

Before half term, the Form V Q set visited Marley Park during one of its lessons to make a record of some of the beautiful scenes the walled garden has to offer. Although still early in the year the garden has plently of inspirational images suitable for execution in watercolour. Work on these compositions began today. Even the group shot by the water fountain is forming the basis for a painting! It is hoped that some of this work will be ready for the annual exhibition and competition which will be held close to the end of term.

Molly Buckingham

Louisa Gibbs

 

Jennifer Kim

Restorers unveil the devil in Giotto's detail

Art restorers have discovered the outline of the head of a devil hidden in the clouds of one of the most famous frescoes by Giotto in the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi. Read the full article  in yesterday's Irish Times about this extraordinary find.

 

A Showcase of Art by Old Columbans

This exhibition will run over two days at The College. There will also be a 2012 calender available to buy which showcases the work of  talented artists emerging within The College.

'July' displays the work of Molly Dunne.

There will also be a full colour  exhibition catalogue available with examples of work from the exhibitors.

And finally, in yesterday's Irish Times an article about the restoration of one of the National Galleries most treasured pieces appeared.

Tim O Brien writes, 'The National Gallery of Ireland has put its ongoing conservation of the iconic painting The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife online.

While the painting, described as one of the most important historic works in the gallery’s collection, is being conserved, visitors to the gallery’s website will be able to see into previously restricted areas, accessing updates of the work in progress through pictures and videos. There is also a document archive and descriptions of the significance of the painting.

The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife is the work of Cork-born artist Daniel Maclise (1806-1870) and is, in the words of the gallery’s director, Raymond Keaveney, “the size of a small lawn”. The online resource includes a timeline recording the various stages of the project since autumn 2010, when conservation was initiated'.

The rest of the article can be read HERE

Future Columban Artists!



Squares with concentric circles by Wassily Kandinsky.

Today the College hosted an induction day for new Junior entrants to the College for the next academic year. The Art Department had an opportunity to tap into their create side this afternoon, and inspired by the work of Wassily Kandinsky they produced a huge mural in less than one hour!  In fact until the work is fully dry and hanging on a wall it is impossible to photograph it as a mural! 

Photos posted below show the process as well as sections of the finished mural.

Form I Landscape Painting

Cormac McCooey

Michael Murphy

Freddie Morris

Marina Wright

Landscape Painting

Evidenced in these Form I paintings is the  inspiration that pupils drew from the collection of National Geographic Magazines which are part of the Art Department's resources.  Some of the pupils used their own personal photos (see the image which depicts two children walking on the beach with their father).  The pupils painted on the back of an off-cut of leatherette. The paint took to the reverse of the leatherette very well and the resultant texture (both visual and tactile) of the paintings closely resembles that of a canvas painting. There will be more paintings posted tomorrow.

Ciaran Chisholm

Janet Boyd

Caroline Kavanagh

Still Life with Skull

Form V have been working on still life composition. Included in their compositions is a skull, a symbol of death and mortality. The skull has appeared in many paintings through the History of Art.One such 'vanitas'  painting by the Dutch painter Steenwyck can be viewed HERE.

More examples of Form V work will be posted in the coming days.

Ciara O Byrne

Tyrone Langham

Aoife Gernon

Joanna Tottenham

Leonie von Stotzingen