Tremendous Tens

Recent drawing exercises from Year 10 students - 

beginning with multiple sport images showing movement and depth in pencil or fineliner pen with a simple single coloured line added to help develop the image; the second busier drawing is about energy and motion with the inclusion of colour with coloured paper collaged on randomly; the final is a drawing still using the initial figures but building on energy and movement, but using other marks. The final darker image is produced in inks with the idea of being a faster and looser drawing about drawing and mark making using what was learnt in previous exercises. 

Three different students show their approaches to the problem:

Student 1: Equestrian

Student 2 : Gymnastics

Student 3: Snowboarding

Burn brightly, Pete

More of those Fabulous Nines...

We've been painting with my Year 9s this term.... on wood panels. The girls were asked to choose a landscape and section off the wood panel with the landscape on the top and below, a sanded back section on which they'd paint a small still life relating to the scene. The works are based on the art practice of a contemporary French artist and integrate two very old disciplines - landscape and still life (we just don't tell the girls that's what they're doing). They're not all quite finished yet, but you may be interested in how things are looking. Here's the results of their layered, blended, washed and sanded-back paint so far. Painting stars, all of them burning brightly....