Figure Painting

Form Primary have been working on figure painting over recent weeks. These life size paintings show great imagination and attention to detail. The exercise helps the pupils to understand complexities such as proportion, shape and form, all of which are necessary elements of figure drawing.

Form VI Craftwork

Form VI are working on the Craft Section of the Leaving Certificate Art Paper at the moment. Posted today are some excellent examples of clay modelling craft work by Imogen Wardell and Daniel Roden. Both pieces are works in progress and the finished glazed models will be

posted here in coming weeks.

                       Daniel Roden

Imogen Wardell

Positive & Negative

Form I have now completed the papercutout portraits they began last week. Their exploration of the elements positive and negetive continued with the creation of images on black paper using house-hold bleach. 

Andrew Brady                                       Form I

Janet Boyd                                              Form I

Ciaran Chisholm                                      Form I

Gabriel Metsu

Today,  Senior Cycle pupils studying art will visit the Gabriel Metsu Exhibition at the National Gallery Dublin.

Born in 1629 to a painter and a midwife, Metsu was recorded as a painter at the tender age of 14. The name of his teacher is unknown, but he probably studied for some time under the Utrecht painter Nicolaus Knupfer. In Leiden, Metsu painted mainly large-scale biblical scenes.

In the middle of the 1650s, after his parents had died, Metsu moved to Amsterdam. This shift prompted him to change his specialisation and paint intimate scenes of daily life inspired by Gerrit Dou from Leiden and Gerard ter Borch from Deventer. As Metsu’s style became more meticulous in the 1660s, he focused increasingly on representing the pastimes of the upper class. Towards the end of his life, when he was one of the leading genre painters in Amsterdam, he continued to compete with various contemporaries outside his hometown, including Johannes Vermeer from Delft and Frans van Mieris from Leiden.

Metsu had an unrivalled talent for imbuing his figures with humanity and personality. Few of his contemporaries matched his technical virtuosity.

In 1658 Metsu married Isabella de Wolff, daughter of Maria de Grebber, one of Holland’s few female painters and a member of the well-known artistic De Grebber family from Haarlem.

Chapel Art Project

Form VI Q Set are continuing with their Chapel based project and today they began the process of turning their research work into mood boards.  These are essentially  collages of all their research work including photos, drawings and rubbings.  These mood boards will provide the inspiration for their group-work project.

Form I Portraits

Form I have begun drawing self-portraits which they will translate into a positive and negative image using cut out black and white paper.

What is a PaperCutPortrait? It is just what it sounds like; a portrait that is cut from paper. It is representational because it identifies the shadows and or profile of an individual that allows you identify who it is.

From this they will develop their designs into a lino print.

Junior Certificate Art

The Art Department are pleased to announce some fine results from Junior Certificate Art candidates 2009/10. Well done to all pupils involved!

This years Junior Certificate Pupils are now in the process of trying to define the type of theme they wish to research and develop for their Junior Certificate Art Project. Pupils are beginning to make progress with preliminary drawings as can be seen in the pictures below.

Although the Project Themes for 2010/11 have not yet been published, the syllabus remains the same and can be viewed  here.

                                                     Matt Brooke        Form III

Pia Gromotka             Form III

College Chapel

Form VI Q Set has begun work on a long-term project which uses the College Chapel as a primary research source. Once the pupils entered the Chapel and began to closely observe the structure and the decorative nature of its interior, they soon discovered a cornucopia of riches with which to whet their artistic appetites!

The pupils took photos, made sketches and rubbings in an effort to record as much information as possible in a double lesson. The numerous motifs, stained glass windows, inscriptions on plaques and glass,  the various carvings in wood and marble, and the patterns in the masonary provided a well of inspiration for the pupils. The next step of the project it to create a number of mood boards which are based on their research work.

Colour

Here at Scc Art we love colour; tints, shades, and intensity. Colour is all around us. In our daily lives we encounter the most beautiful arrays of colour in the most ordinary of settings but for one reason or another they often go unnoticed. Observe how beautiful the colours are in the photo below which was taken in a bakery in France (sorry you can't buy these locally!)

The following link will help to improve your knowledge and appreciation of colour and lots more besides; artyfactory 

 

Public Art

A new piece of public art celebrates the tradition of young people riding horses bareback around Dublin.

It is called Misneach, 'courage' in Irish,  and this bronze sculpture by artist John Byrne will be unveiled next week  in Ballymun. A full article on this piece of art from The Irish Times can be read HERE. It also comments on a YouTube video which shows the making of Misneach and includes an explaination by the artist of the thought process behid the piece.