My inspiring GCSE art student....

                                                    ' Oil paint on card ' - direction of light from the left.

                                                  ' Collage - magazines and coloured tissue'


The above are two out of four final pieces of work by my GCSE Art student who I mentioned in my last blog. She wanted to learn how to use oil, acrylic and watercolour paint. I surgested the last be mixed media but it ended up a collage. Using her imagination and photos of people from magazine we came up with four portraits. These will go into her coursework folder.

My GCSE student inspired me to produce this painting in acrylic. Normally I don't like acrylic, but recently  I came across a new Daler Rowney student quality paint which seems better than system 3. However, I am about to purchase some acrylic glosser to make it look more like oil paint  ! I'm also going to try out transferring images which was all the rage at art school.

Anyways, my art practice is now talking on a new direction into the 'dead' flowers subject, but not sure exactly what yet!.

My super GCSE Art student...

 

                                                                            Acrylic (finished)


 I'm  helping a GCSE art student to complete coursework and a final piece. All paintings show here where made under my guidance and  supervision. We are examining tone and colour using four different techniques (Acrylic, Oil paint, watercolour and collage). These portraits are from memory which is fine, but observational skills are still really important at GCSE or at any level for that matter.

                                                                        Oil paint  (unfinished)

    

                                                              Watercolour (unfinished)

                                                                   
                                                               Collage (unfinished)

Although unfinished, in all work produced in a short amount of time, there has been a  considerable gain in the  understanding of tone, colour, media and technique.  Finished works to follow latter.

A lot of happenings in the art land....

Year 3 Art club at a local primary school. Half an hour once a week during lunch for 15 children. They are exploring techniques, media and ideas for The Children's University. When they have finished this six week block they will take their ideas into their normal lessons and hopefully use them on other things. The first lesson we attempted to make a 3D animal with a thick impasto of flour and PVA mix which was left to dry for over a week. Some turned out better than others as they didn't dry so well. In the second lesson the children painted their animals began to add texture. They used their imaginative skills of what the animals looked liked for this part, which I think is fine as younger children are better at this than older students (perhaps not for OFSTEAD - who once surgest I bring in 'real' butterfiles into the classroom).

Below is the examples done by myself of  what the end result should look like after just three sessions of half an hour- few!!! Examples by the children to follow later.