Serra Leitersdorf Le Cerf

House

During my Pre-IB art course at Aiglon I learned a range of new abilities and experimented with various art mediums. This includes acrylic, oil, but also continuous line drawings, and pen drawings.

We have also looked at different themes such as still life, self portraits, and as we are doing now the project ‘Lock’. This is where we practised different techniques with the different mediums to create our own pieces of art.

The theme of self portraits was my favourite because I was able to get creative with what I was creating at that moment. For example I had to pick a certain artist, Jenny Saville, and through looking at her art work, I had to create my self portrait using her ideas.

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This let me show my creative side but with guidance throughout my assessment. Throughout the process of experimenting with different mediums, I have managed to figure out which type of medium I need to use on different types of art pieces I am working on.

At the end of our Self portrait theme, we had our mock 10 hour exam and to finish this off I analysed my self portrait. Through my work, I gained a better understanding of the different styles I look to work on and different mediums I like to work with.

My favourite was oil paint, I enjoyed using this medium to further develop my project on self portraits. Oil paint blends easier and dries slower, this allows me to refine different areas then go back to them when I need too. It helps me with the accuracy of my painting and lets me add every little detail I need to add.

Overall, although oil paint is my favourite medium to work with, I feel that I should continue to make different pieces of art with different mediums discovering them further. I feel that I am very proud of my outcomes so far and am excited to continue.

As I mentioned before, Jenny Saville is one of the artists I looked at and inspired my self portrait. I was quite influenced by her because as I was inspecting her art works I saw the amount of detail she adds to her work but in a fun way. She adds splotches of paint on top and underneath the actual portrait.

Sophia Rodzynek Le Cerf House

During my time in Pre-IB art, I have explored different techniques and topics. Specifically, I learned how to take a singular word such as ‘Lock’ and create drawings with different meanings all deriving from that word.

I personally work with standard grey drawing pencils and or colored pencils because I find them the most enjoyable to use. I love the way the colours blend together and the shading I achieve when using them.

When working on a larger art piece I try to pick topics that have meaning to me, so the same goes for the media I use. I try to correlate what I think fits best with the general theme of the art work.

All of the art I work on for longer periods of time have to do with issues in my personal life. I find that the best work comes from places of your mind you do not quite understand.

I have only been at Aiglon for a month as of now, but my artwork is connected through the broader topic of internal struggle.

Behind the print I am completing right now, the intention is about stopping before it is too late. The pill bottle is a metaphor of something which is not healthy for you whether that is a relationship or bad habit. It symbolises knowing your limits and when you need to move forward.

I want my audience to be understanding and keep an open mind not only for others but themselves as well.

Thijs Lauer Alpina House

Throughout my year 11 Pre-IB art I looked at a bunch of different techniques and styles that I can now use to differentiate my work from others. We have looked through different styles of art and ways to do things. We looked at artwork from different old and modern artists to depict emotion and feeling.

For example we look at an oil painting by Pablo Picasso which was spread with monochromatic colours which helped emphasise a saddened look and feel. And, in response I made an oil painting self portrait to go along with the monochromatic theme.

That wasn't the only painting that was done. We also went out into nature and zoomed in oil paintings of what we found. Throughout the year I've found myself to lean towards more oil painting and painting in general and find it very relaxing. I also enjoy photography, all of which let me outside to take pictures of what surrounds me.

Often when there is a change in season we make sure to illustrate the differences in a piece of work which varies in style. Normally what interests me is the nature, the trees and other plants and animals or just normal scenery.

I like my artwork to be more or less a good look at what you would see on a day to day basis, with a twist of my own feel so that it doesn't exclude that natural look.

I make artwork so that the people viewing it can understand how it is I make the artwork and how impactful it is to me and others every single day.

Tilly Hann Thomas Le Cerf House

Over the past two years, I have experimented with several different mediums like paint, pencil, pen, ink, clay and printing, and explored themes such as youth, melancholy, identity, internal conflict, and the natural world.

Most of my inspiration stems from using paint and pen together, which I feel gives my work a defined outline in a messy and colourful context. I think that my chaotic, tangled style reflects the artistic ideas I am drawn towards, with artists like Francis Bacon, Lisa Milroy, and Robert Joyner capturing my interest.

In contrast to this, I also enjoy working in a meticulous, detailed style that is shown in my architectural work inspired by Le Corbusier, as well as my drawings of Leonardo da Vinci anatomy. Some other factors which have fed

YEAR 11 ART EXHIBITION BOOK | 2022 - 2023 into my artistic creativity include spending time outside, developing my love for writing, and simply contemplating my age and feelings that come with it.

I think that imperfection is a key aspect that underpins all of my work, because I embrace a disorderly style in my painting that mirrors my train of thought, rather than avoid it.

I hope that my audience will appreciate the time I’ve spent on my work, and that they will take away something with themwhether that’s a memory, thought, or feeling.

Zara Enthoven Exeter House

I joined art this year and during these few months, I have experimented with many different types of media. Some of my favourites have been oil painting, watercolour and coloured pencil drawings.

Many of my artworks have had elements of shadows or mirroring as I enjoy adding these details especially when oil painting. I have explored themes and ideas of artefacts and traditions in many of my artworks such as my final exam where I painted a family heirloom of a metal statue of a flower.

My intention of this artwork was to show how special this flower is to me by putting intricate highlights and shadows, and its reflection onto the reflective table.

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I also like painting using watercolour as I like to experiment with how the colours bleed into each other but can also layer and not mix, depending on how much water I use.

I have loved to be able to create artwork of some of my hobbies such as gymnastics. I did an artwork using the outline of a position I did and then used a palette knife to play with mixing different colours inside the outline to show shadows and highlights.

I liked experimenting with my ideas within the topics and seeing what I can come up with and how imaginative I can be. I have also experimented with chalk and really liked how I could use my fingers to blend the colours. I used chalk to do artwork of faces and animals such as dogs.

My favourite artist study that I have done so far was Andy Warhol as I liked to play with colours and do portrait photography and then experiment with editing online.