Form II Clay Modelling

Continuing on the theme of clay modelling today's post includes some recent work from Form II.  These clay models have been bisque fired and painted using acrylic paint.

Sadhbh Sheeran

                               Molly Dunne

Form Primary's Pottery

Some of the recent posts on SCC Art have included examples of excellent clay modelling from our Leaving Certificate pupils. Today's post is all about the youngest members of St. Columba's College. Like our senior pupils, Form Primary have also been developing skills in the medium of clay and have produced some great work. Examples of bisque fired models painted with acrylic paint can be seen below.

                                        Marta Carlotti

                                   Katie Stewart

Clara Murphy

Transition Year Art Prize

Congratulations to Aoise Keogan Nooshabadi in Form IV who last night won the Transition Year Prize for Art (she was also awarded a joint prize for the Spirit of Transition Year). A full list of winners can be viewed HERE.

Aoise's most recent work in the Art Room was a group-work project which is posted below along with a review of the project which she wrote for displaying in the Art Department's 'Visual Diary' later this week.

Form IV reproduces

‘The Last Supper’

As the Trinity Term drew to a close our art classes became fewer and fewer. For the remaining two weeks out brief was to complete a group- work mural to be displayed in the art room. The idea of a recreation of the infamous and legendary “Last Supper” was explained to us. I knew this would be difficult as firstly the original is a challenging size as well as deciding the style that all of us would have follow.

The rest of Aoise's review can be read HERE.

Leaving Certificate Craft Exam

Posted today are some of the clay models made for the Leaving Certificate Craft Examination 2010.

William Reade

Ciara Conway

                                        Lauren Cooke

Jessica Dean

Poppy Vernon

Leaving Certificate Craft Exam

Best of luck to the all the Leaving Certificate Art Pupils whose craft examination is being assessed today by an examiner from the Department of Education.

Poppy Vernon         Form VI           Craft Exam

Art Room Interior

SCC Art recently came across this drawing left sitting on a table in the Art room. Sadly it must have been discarded at some point as there are two footprints on the drawing !  It depicts the area under the stairs; just a small section of the busy Art Room. In the middle of the drawing is a table and sitting on it is a printing press. On the right is one of three chests of drawers in the Art Room which house the pupils' work. Various other pieces of art hang on the stair railing and sit on top of the drawers. The drawers are also labelled with the names of current pupils .

This well observed drawing shows good understanding of space and perspective which is especially important when drawing interiors. The drawing is by Henry Roe in Form IV and is now hanging on the railing which he has drawn in the picture above.

Friday's Photo

Today's photo was shot by Daphne Wright in Form V on a Nikon D60 in March 2010. The converging lines in the photo lead the viewer along the road and out of the shot. Where this road goes and what happens outside the frame is left for the viewer to ponder upon. This work echoes the idea behind the English Department's 'Images and Poetry ' module (i.e. the concept that the photograph is only the beginning or one part of a bigger narrative that extends beyond the frame). Some of the work from this module of study within the English Department can be viewed in their recently published book 'Outside the Frame'.

Junior Certificate Projects

Today the Junior Certificate Art Projects will be assessed and marked by an examiner from the Department of Education. We wish all our Junior Certificate pupils the best of luck with the assessment of this subject and with all other subjects in which they are examined during this month of June.

Create your own Still-Life

Inspired by yesterday's post? Click HERE to create your own still-life on the Topmarks Educational Search Engine. Use the different tools to include various objects, backgrounds, tones and brushstrokes. The program gives you lots of fruit to choose from so one could easily try one's hand at producing something similar to all those apples Cezanne painted.

Form V Still-Life Compositions

Form V has been working on still-life compositions. The inclusion of man-made and organic objects, as well as objects of varied scale and different shapes are essential when creating the still-life. The still-life should challenge the pupils' ability to recreate shape, form, colour and visual texture in a balanced, unified and harmonious composition.

Imogen Wardell                                               Work in Progress

Amelia Shirley                                                  Work in Progress

Daniel Roden                                                   Work in Progress