Gala Concert Poster Competition

Jane Mackay
Jane Mackay is a synaesthetic artist who sees colours when she hears music

Once again the music department are looking for both junior and senior cycle artists to get involved with the 'Gala Concert Poster Competition'.

The entries are due in by Wednesday March 6th and the winning poster will be announced at the Music Prize evening a few days later.

 

The following information must be included on the poster;

 

St. Columba's College

 

Gala Concert

 

Saturday April 27th  2013 at 8pm

 

Mairead Buicke, soprano and Anthony Byrne, piano

 

Proceeds to Habitat for Humanity

 

The poster should be completed in a portrait format and A3 in size.

 

Previous examples of poster designs can be seen HERE. See your art teacher for any more information.

What is synaesthesia?

Your brain usually interprets signals from the eyes as light, and those from the ears as sound. But a few people experience sounds as colours, smells as colours or even colours as smells. Around one in a hundred people have some form of this 'mixing of the senses' or synaesthesia. Almost any combination of two of the five senses is possible, although it is most common to see a certain colour when you hear a particular sound.

Form V Batik

Examples of batik work by Form V.

Leslie von Negenborn



Molly Dunne

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

Exhibition of work by Una Sealy

Our visiting judge from last year, Una Sealy, is currently showing her work, 'A PIANO IN THE KITCHEN AND OTHER STORIES' at draíocht,
 in the  Blanchardstown Centre,
Dublin Mon-Sat 10am-6pm until February 23rd.

All in the Family

Aidan Dunne writes 'there’s an easy, conversational quality to Una Sealy’s paintings and graphic work. Come upon it in the midst of a group exhibition and it can make everything around look suddenly stilted and formal. The title of her latest exhibition, A Piano in the Kitchen Other Stories, strikes just the right note.
Gathered together, Sealy’s paintings, several of them very ambitious in terms of scale and complexity, demonstrate that there is no division between life and art for her.
On one level, an air of relaxed domesticity dominates as we seem to wander from room to room, encountering family, friends and visitors.
In Sealy’s empathic attention, however, there is always a strong intimation of inner life and preoccupations in her subjects, a suggestion that we are glimpsing single instants in life stories that contain darkness as well as light. It is this underlying somberness that gives her work a gravity, which can take you unawares'. 

Form II Painting.

 As part of  the Hugh Lane Gallery workshop that Form II attended last week, they produced a painting in response to the work that they viewed in the Gallery. Posted today are some of the paintings.

Kirsten |Higgins

Freddie De Montfort

Seong Eun Lee

Hugh Lane Gallery

 On Wednesday 23rd of January Form II art pupils spent the morning at the Hugh Lane Art Gallery. Under the expert care of artist Frances Coghlan they undertook a study of four paintings from The Gallery's collection. After their tour they were guided to the education studio where they produced their own paintings. This work was loosely based on what the pupils had viewed earlier in the morning. The four paintings they looked at in the Gallery were  Waterloo Bridge by Claude Monet, Tea in the Garden by Walter Osborne , There is No Night by Jack B. Yeats and Evening Malahide by Nathaniel Hone.
 

Over the next few days examples of pupils' work from the workshop will be posted.

 

Waterloo Bridge by Claude Monet

Tea in the Garden by Walter Osborne

There is No Night by Jack B. Yeats

 

Evening Malahide by Nathaniel Hone.

Snow

Form V Q Set rose to the challenge of depicting a snow scene in their lesson this week.

Q Set Watercolours

The College looks beautiful today with snow falling gently.  Perhaps it may be the inspiration for the next set of watercolours to be painted by the Form V Q Set.  Posted below are a few examples from last weeks lesson.

Turner's Watercolours

JMW Turner (1775-1851)

Each  year in January there is an exhibition of  watercolours and drawings by JMW Turner at the National Gallery.

 There is a good reason why the work is only shown in January, as explained on the webpages of the National Gallery.

The Exhibition is currently running at the Print Gallery in the National Gallery  until he end of January 2013.

The Doge Palace

Watercolour painting

Q Set classes have begun to experiment with watercolour painting this term.They are employing a number of techniques including washes, using media such as masking fluids and texture medium.