It seems as though the Grade 11 Oil Painting assignment and competition was a great success.

Mr Wyattminter chose the top 6 paintings, and the artists were presented with their winnings by Mr Cato. The school purchased the paintings and they will be exhibited in the staff dining room. (Fame and Fortune!)

The results are as follows (and in order) : Marc Neilson, Reitumetse Magongoa, Siemon Van Lengeling, Brandon Dixon, Laura Allardyce and Jessica Young.

Well done to you all!! (from a very proud Mrs Allen)

A further three paintings were chosen by Mrs Allen, the artists are Tess Miles, Rosanne Whitfield and Danielle Cochran. Well done girls.

Exams exams!

Just because I'm so chuffed with my Grade 10's exam results, here are a few examples of the lovely still life drawings they created for their June Drawing exam.

Grade 9 'Body Map" creativity

 This term, as a free expressive,  fun assignment, the Grade 9's were tasked with creating a 'Body Map' that reflected their personality through visual imagery and symbolic colour. They had to trace their 'body shape' onto card and fill the positive/negative shapes in any way they liked, using creative ideas, artistic techniques and materials. There were some lovely results, have a look! (More to come...)

Current happenings in the Art dept

This term the art department is pretty busy: We are making giant paper mache trees and painting two large backdrops for this year's production of Midsummer nights dream. The Grade 11 class is also painting forest panels for the theatre entrance. (As well as completing their Impressionistic oil painting assigment.)

The Grade 9's are beginning an exciting "Andy Goldsworthy" inspired project. With all the lovely Autumn colours now at Treverton, their task is to creat their own environmental artwork, using only materials found in Nature.

The Grade 10's are working with clay, making canopic jars (linking to their Egyptian art history section) as for the first time, we have our own kiln! Hooray! (Thankyou accounts dept!)

Gr11 Impressionist COMPETITION

Hi Grade 11's, just a quick reminder of the Impressionist oil painting competition next term.The best ones will be purchased for the school. Woohoo FAME & FORTUNE!!! Take your cameras out, getting snapping beautiful scenes this holiday & practise your painting techniques. Have a look at the following contemporary Impressionist painter Nancy Lindsay for some inspiration. (http://www.nancylindsay.com/)

Contemporary Conceptual Art

Just for the Matrics as we study Conceptual Art: Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde has created a installation where, by controlling the humidity and atmospheric pressure in a room, he can conjure up surreal clouds that float elegantly inside a room. An ephemeral beauty that lasts for just a moment but is captured forever as a photograph, proving Daliesque scenes can occur with a little help from science.

Gr10 Textural paintings

Have a look at some of the Grade 10's textural paintings this term. Their task was to focus on creating texture, through using unusual techniques, paint and mixed media. They used everything from sugar and glue, to leaves, frottage, tissue paper and string. Well done Grade 10's!