by Andrew CLARKE | Dec 18, 2014 | Secondary Visual Arts, The Grades
Grade 7 and 8 art students have finished their extended art homework projects this week, and here are just a few for you to look at. The students have developed ideas for compositions, personalising the themes, and have created their pictures over several weeks. They...
by Andrew CLARKE | Dec 10, 2014 | Secondary Visual Arts, The Grades
G11 students are studying portraiture and learning Classical drawing techniques. This provides them with foundation skills which they may apply to other art areas which they may choose personally later in the course, or if they wish to pursue any portraiture related...
by Andrew CLARKE | Dec 10, 2014 | Secondary Visual Arts, The Grades
Here are G7 art students in their collaborative project designing a large-scale mural which they will hopefully paint on the school building. The mural was inspired initially by Kandinsky’s abstract art and students are expressing in abstract form the various...
by Andrew CLARKE | Dec 4, 2014 | Secondary Visual Arts, The Grades
This Thursday 4th and Friday 5th December the Grade 10 Art students are undertaking their IGCSE Art Mock Examination. For four hours each day under examination conditions, they are each creating a piece of art. They will actually use this piece of art as a part of...
by Andrew CLARKE | Nov 25, 2014 | Secondary Visual Arts, The Grades
Grade 9 students are experimenting with different materials, such as acrylic paint, watercolour, oil pastels and soft pastels, to explore subject matter through observation, a skill upon which much importance is placed in IGCSE art. Their next step will be to develop...
by Andrew CLARKE | Nov 20, 2014 | Secondary Visual Arts, The Grades
For each art project over the year, after completing some initial learning tasks for homework, G7 and G8 students will receive an Extended Art Homework Project brief to create a piece of art over an extended period of time, in this case over five weeks until December...
