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Fur Feathers and Scales Exhibition Feb 21 - April 16

A new exhibition will be opening at the Quay Arts in Newport on Thursday. As part of the Quay's ‘nature’ inspired exhibitions ‘Fur, Feather & Scales’ is an exhibition of limited edition prints, showing a different aspect of Nick Martin’s work and this series picks out some of his favourite creatures. This exhibition might be of interest to Y11 students who have chosen Natural Forms or Textures for their question.  Also Y10 students who are currently looking at all things Fish.  Y9 students might also like to get some ideas for animal inspired projects.

Y10 The Sea Project

If you are struggling with completing your sea project I have created a Sea Powerpoint to help you.  Below is the checklist.

1	Title Page for project
2	MoodBoard
3	Mind map
4	Artist Research 1  Len Tabner
5	Artist Response Colour copy
6	Charcoal studies
7	ink, wax studies
8	Artist Research 2 Steve Gascoigne
9	Steve Gascoigne response own photos
10	Exhibition visit - colour response/artist
11	Holiday photos
12	Bonchurch exhibition & artist response
13	Contact Sheet Ventnor
14	Enlargements/edits Ventnor
15	Contact Sheet Bonchurch
16	Enlargements/edit Bonchurch
17	Contact Sheet Steephill Cove
18	Enlargements/edits Steephill Cove
19	Victorian painting/research/talk
20	Artist Study Homework
21	Watercolour experiments
22	Finished Watercolour Seascape
23	Own painting of seascape

GCESE Art & Design - All Year Groups Pixlr Photo manipulation tool

 A free online image manipulation tool - use to edit your photos.

Basic editing with Pixlr

Double exposure images with Pixlr

Y10 Fish Project Checklist and Powerpoint

Click the link to access the Fish Powerpoint to support your project. Below is the checklist - over the holidays you should complete 1 - 12.

Extension - Visit an aquarium/fishmongers and take photos of fish.  Complete paintings, collages or drawings from your photographs or from secondary sources.

1	Artist Mood Board
2	A4 colour artwork from mood board
3	Artist research
4	Artist Response Colour copy
5	Chinese fish mood board
6	Response to Chinese mood board
7	Native American Indian Mood board
8	Response to Native American mood board
9	A4 page of drawings for simple screen print
10	Fabric samples for printing
11	Single colour screen print
12	A4 page designs 2 colour print

Y10 Class & Homework - Due 7th February

A reminder that Y10 is still to be completed a few students are still to complete

1. Artist research/analysis based on the study you complete in class e.g. Paul Klee, Henri Brzeska etc. and complete the artist study started in class.

2. Complete an A4 colour study from one of the artists on your artist mood board (different artist to above work)

3. A4 page of initial design drawings for a two or three colour design using either your Native American Indian or Chinese mood board for inspiration.

Y11 Exam - Punk Exhibition at the Quay in Newport

This is the last week for the Punk exhibition at the Quay Arts in Newport.  The exhibition is free but there is a closing party which cost £5
This exhibition may be of interest to Y11 students who have chosen Messages, Texture or My Surroundings as a title.

YR9-Cowes Harbour Landmark Design Competition

Well done to Year 9 student's for completing the Cowes Harbour competition.. some fabulous designs. We now have a news from the Judges...

Y11 Artist Mood Board Exam example

An Example for an Artist Mood Board for the title Spaces - Public Art

Collage Homework Y10

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. 

Y9 HW 6 Due 19 Nov