Y10 Autumn Homework

Homework – 1 Due Friday 23 Nov                                                                                                                    Use a number of your photos from your trips over the last half term and experiment with PicMonkey, Pixlr or other suitable online or digital manipulation software you have. Save a number of versions (minimum 4 test and one ‘final’) Print up four images to an A4/A3 page with annotations/explanations and your best image on a A4/A3.

Homework - 2 Due Wed 28 Nov                                                                                                                        Hand in your photo for Autumn TIFS competition - could be one of your trip photos.

Homework – 3 Due Wednesday 5^th Dec                                                                                                Complete an artist research on a Victorian watercolour artist of your choice who painted the IOW.  Look at the blog for ideas. Make a response to your artist by painting part or all of work.

Challenge /Extension Look at the work of a contemporary artist to use as inspiration for your own seascape painting/ mixed media art work e.g. Jerry Uelsmann   Fabienne Rivory Kurt Jackson or Amanda Hislop.

VICTORIAN IOW PAINTERS

In artistic terms perhaps the most important venue on the Isle of Wight from the 1840s was the village of Bonchurch, just to the east of Ventnor. Here charming stone villas with ornate verandas were built within sheltered gardens and rocky cliffs, overlooking the beautiful village pond and the sea. The beach and coastline proved a particular attraction for artists, who portrayed the activities of crab and lobster fishermen going about their work along the shore. Peter De Wint OWS (1784- 1849) painted ‘Bringing in the Catch at Ventnor’ in 1814. He made several drawings about this time that were, later, included in W. B. Cooke’s ‘Picturesque Delineation of the South Coast of England’ (Cooke, 182624).

A school of artists developed at Bonchurch, with Seaside Cottage on the shore being rented annually by a succession of eminent names including Edward William Cooke RA, Clarkson Stanfield, Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham NWS (1823-1875) and Thomas Miles Richardson Jnr RSA RWS (1813-1890). There is a remarkable similarity in the technique adopted by artists like Richardson, Rowbotham, George James Knox (1810-1897) and Isle of Wight artist William Gray (fl.1835-1883). Their rich ‘Mediterranean’ palate with the extensive use of heightening with white is typical, and it is almost certain that the prolific Island topographical artist, Gray, was a pupil and painting companion of Richardson and Rowbotham. On one occasion in 1861 the latter two artists painted an identical scene of a coal boat being unloaded on the beach at Bonchurch.  

The important Victorian watercolourist Myles Birket Foster RWS (1825-1899) and his family moved to Bonchurch, renting the seaside villa, Winterborne, for a period of recuperation from tuberculosis. Whilst living there, he produced at least ten fine watercolours of children on the beach at Bonchurch.

 ’At Bonchurch’ by Edward William Cooke RA (c.1850). Cooke produced numerous ‘geological’ pictures such as this on the Isle of Wight coast between Ventnor and Shanklin. A follower of the Pre-Raphaelite School, Cooke painted extremely accurately and his work was greatly admired by the Victorian art critic, John Ruskin.