Awards Day & Student of the Month - May 2012

May was another busy month in the art room, with Junior Certs completing their projects and Leaving Certs completing their practical exams. The art room is looking very bare and clean as all groups have finished up their projects and everyone work is taken down from display.
Awards day took place on Monday, and Art had two subject awards.
Congratulations and well done to both students for all their hard work and dedication all year!

Subject Awards 2012 - Art
2nd Year - Aoife O Connell
5th Year - Aisling Mulligan

Aoife O Connell - Local Environment Mix Media Sheet

Aisling Mulligan - Clay Slab Ceramic

LCA Yr 1 students also received a very special award for their outstanding achievement, as a class group, for achieving full marks in their general education task, which involved their Identity Exhibition 

Identity Exhibition - General Education Task LCA 2012

I would also like to give a special mention and big congratulations to Darren O Connor, a very talented young artist in 3rd Year, who won 1st place in the U 16 Boys, National Community Games Art Award. What an achievement, well done Darren!

As a class, Junior Cert Students voted for their favourite Junior Cert Art Project of the Year for 2012. The winning project is by Jennifer Leyden, who thoroughly deserved the award. Well done Jennifer. Jennifer was a consistent hard worker all year round, and completed an excellent project on the theme of Looking at Nature. Part of the prize is a blog post dedicated to Jenny's full project, which will be posted after it has been examined in June. Click on link below to view
 http://ccsartdepartment.blogspot.ie/2012/06/junior-cert-art-project-of-year-2012.html

And on a final note, this is sadly my last week teaching in CCS, and the art room is full of lovely goodbye cards, wishing me good luck! So thank you again to all the students who created some very special and creative cards! So for the final time this year, here are the students of the month...congratulations to each student and to all the art classes who worked so hard all year. Wishing you all the best of luck in your exams and a happy and sunny summer holiday....Ms Kelly!

1st Year Ava Glancy

Shoe Design - Inspired by Gustav Klimt's painting 'The Kiss'

2nd Year Tina Kilgarriff

Animation Project

5th Year Lauren O Sullivan

Ceramic Slab Building - Inspired by Newgrange

LCA Anouska Avis

Sheep Sculptures  - 'Feeling Sheepish'
Entered into the Roscommon Schools Sculpture Competition,
in Strokestown  House Woodland Walk

LC Patrick Kelleher - Patrick loves history and really excels in his art history essays. He has put in huge effort all year round. Well done Patrick!

A few class photos from our last week of art class, best of luck again to all the exam groups!

Junior Cert Art Group 1

Junior Cert Art Group 2

Leaving Cert - Last art class!

2nd Yr - Animations

The Litter, The Witch And The Wardrobe

Anti-Litter Short Film Competition 2011//2012
5th Year students finished film!
Well done to Jean, Jessica, Graham, Brian, Carl, Niamh, Megan, Aisling, Lauren, Billy and Carmel!

1st Year - Lino Print

First years recently completed their first Lino Print project. Lino printing is a craft option for the Junior Cert Project and Leaving Cert craft exam. The craft of lino printing is about creating lots of different

• lines
• patterns
• shapes
• texture

Also the finished print should have a  good balance of

• black and white. 

Here are some of their lovely finished prints, based on drawings of birds, butterflys, fish, leaves and shells.

Student of the month - April 2012

April was a short but very busy and productive month!
JC projects are almost complete, with just the final drawing exams taking place this Wednesday. Best of luck to all the JC students. They have worked extremely hard all year, this month it was hard to pick just one student from each year!

And also best of luck to all the LC students who have their practical exams this week. It begins with a 5 hour Craft Exam this Thursday, followed by 2.5 hour Still Life Drawing exam Friday morning, and finally a 1 hour Life drawing exam Friday afternoon!

So congratulations to the following students for all their hard work this month.....

1st Yr - Erin Kelly

Erin Kelly - Lino Print Project

2nd Yr - Niamh McElroy

Niamh McElroy - 3D project - Wire and paper mache 

3rd Yr - Christina McDermott

Christina McDermot - 3D project - paper mache elephant sculpture

5th Yr - Maeve Hitchen

Maeve Hitchen - Paul Henry Painting Project

LCA - Louise Winters.

Louise Winter  - Sheep Sculpture

LC - (Two students equally deserving it this month!)
Big congratulations to Ellen Bagjala who found out last week she has been offered a college place in The National College of Art and Design  Ellen applied for the Industrial Design Course, click on the link to find out more information on the different types of courses available
http://www.ncad.ie/admissions/entryindustrial.shtml

Ellen Bagjala - Still Life paper collage

And also a big congratulations to Shauna Creighton, who has been offered a place in The Limerick School of Art and Design Shauna scored an impressive 480/600 for her portfolio assessment.
It is extremely hard and competitive to get into both these courses, so again well done to both girls for all the extra work that is involved in preparing a portfolio.

Shauna Creighton - Lino Print