Senior School Art 2021-2022

designed their costumes and then used digital special effects to make them zoom through the air, glow and shoot lasers from their eyes! We fine-tuned our perspective skills by designing comic-book backgrounds and combined them digitally with our characters.

Year 9

Year 9 investigated African masks past and present, creating some outstanding research pages before developing their own ideas. The students modelled their creations on their own heads before adding all kinds of imaginative details like horns, spikes and exciting expressions. We decorated them with African-inspired patterns and carefully applied acrylic gradients. We continued the year by exploring the nature-inspired architecture of Gaudi, before creating our own observational drawings of natural forms, monoprinting them and combining them to form imaginative architectural designs.

Year 10

Year 10 began the year by creating stunning urban landscapes inspired by Van Gogh, Carel Weight and Edward Hopper. They produced their own urban photography and tackled a wide range of media, including getting to grips with acrylic paint. The students then embarked upon their chosen coursework foci with customary gusto!

Year 12

Year 12 responded to the distorted photography of Bill Brandt with some superb monochrome images exploring viewpoint and tonal contrast. The ensuing drawing was outstanding. We then embarked upon coursework projects on a range of topics.