Posted: 29th November 2024
The art department regularly recognises the achievements of individual pupils in the junior school through the award of the title, ‘Artist of the Moment’. Entries cover a wide range of disciplines, including drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, installation and mixed media celebrating the diverse talents of pupils in our co-educational day school.
Rowan in Upper Two has sketched a very realistic parrot in his exploration of Rousseau’s rainforest compositions. We were especially impressed with Rowan’s ability to refine and add detail and shading to create texture. Well done Rowan!
Eva from Lower Two has created this monochrome charcoal and chalk drawing of an ammonite as part of her charcoal and pencil topic work. We especially like her attention to the light and dark tones. Well done Eva!
Honor in Upper Two has worked hard on her rainforest inspired sketch of a snake. She sketched carefully, trying to capture the perspective of the coiled snake. She applied water colours and then used watercolour pencil to add the scales. This is part of a series of pieces of work inspired by Henri Rousseau’s Surprised artwork. Well done, Honor!
This very cute chalk pastel hedgehog was created by Isla in Upper Two during extra curricular Art club. She has carefully layered her pastels to create the effect of the hedgehogs spikes and given it a cheeky little face! We love it. Well done, Isla!
Our Junior artist of the moment is Hugo in Form One!
This week, our Form One pupils have linked their maths and art work. They have learnt all about mathematical lines and then had fun spotting them in Wayne Thiebaud’s artwork. They used the idea of perspective, and identified vertical, parallel, horizontal, perpendicular and diagonal lines. Finally, they created their own oil pastel cakes, using their line drawing skills. Hugo’s looks definitely good enough to eat!
Well done Hugo!
Grace from Upper One and Bethanie from Lower Two are our artists of the moment. Both children entered the Royal Academy’s Young Artist competition and received certificates of participation for their work.
Bethanie sculpted two clay models entitled ‘We love flowers’ and Grace painted her piece called ‘The adventure of the cat and the girl’. Both children have demonstrated wonderful creativity and we are very proud of them, well done!
This week we celebrate Florence and Yuan in Form One. They have used air dry clay during art club to sculpt these wonderful Easter themed pots. They have decorated them carefully to add detail and then protected them with a clear glaze. We have been very impressed with the quality of their work and their super concentration. Well done!
Emilia from Upper One has created this stunning oil pastel tree in art club this term. She blended the colours carefully to create each section. Emilia is a talented artist, and this piece demonstrates her creative skill. Well done Emilia!
Form One have enjoyed exploring the themes of friendship and family in Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. Georgina in Form One has used one of the illustrations in her beautiful sketch of the central characters, and added a very fitting quote.
Ellie from Lower Two has used charcoal shading to carefully craft this very cute owl.
Archie in Form One illustrated a bright primary and secondary colour mix gradient fish with intricate zentangle patterns, demonstrating super attention to detail.
Rory from Upper Two has created this mixed media rainforest piece, inspired by Henri Rousseau’s Surprised painting. We love the vibrant chalk pastels against the textured green background. Well done!
Benjamin in Lower Two applied his sketching skills to create this beautiful charcoal drawing of an owl. Benjamin enjoyed using the charcoal pencils and charcoal sticks as well as the white chalk to create light and shade to his work. We think it is toot-ally amazing!
Stephanie in Upper One has made this rather delicious mint choc chip ice cream, showing her colour mixing skills. Her scoops demonstrate different tints of green. Good enough to eat! Well done Stephanie.
Rosanna in Lower Two worked with a selection of B grade pencils to capture this realistic sketch of an eye. A wonderful piece of work!
Nathan in Lower Two enjoyed his first creative task of the year. Firstly, he created a very careful observational sketch of an old key. Then he transformed his pencil sketch into a rather wonderful dragon with intricate details. Super work, Nathan!
Ruby and Jessie from Form One C have produced these stunning Styrofoam prints in art club.
Emily in Upper One has developed her understanding of Cubism and been inspired by the work of Picasso to develop her own self portrait. She has experimented with line and shape to create her own collagraph plate. Emily enjoyed visiting the senior school to use the printing press , her final print is brilliant!
Edward from Upper One B has produced this wonderful pencil self-portrait using sketching pencils. He worked hard on the proportions and shading. Well done, Edward!
This week’s Artist of the Moment in the junior school is George in Lower Two. Linked to the geography topic of Exeter, the pupils in Lower Two have been studying gargoyles in their art lessons. George’s sketchbook research pages are beautifully creative, clearly showing his research. His clay gargoyle has been carefully constructed and painted to accentuate the wonderfully gruesome features. Finally, George has produced an effective pencil sketch of Exeter Cathedral. Well done, George!
