JC Drawing Exam 2012

Some examples from Google images to give you inspiration!

Ireland's Favourite Painting?

RTE ONE, MASTERPIECE: Irelands Favourite Painting, presented by Mike Murphy is a guide to the ten artworks that have been shortlisted for the title of Irelands Favourite Painting, an award that will be decided by a public vote. It can be viewed online at
http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1145499

Ten paintings have been selected from 100, click on the below link to the view the gallery, watch
the show or vote! Do you recognise any, and which one would you vote for?
http://www.rte.ie/tv/masterpiece/index.html

Life Drawing

Here is a really great video that explains how to draw a person sitting down.
Click on the following link.

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-draw-a-person-sitting-down

LC Craft Options 2012

Higher Level

Poster
Design and make a poster or a display card for one of the following topics:
(a) World Science Convention
(b) Computer Game Exhibition
(c) Global Tourism Exposition.
Weaving
Design and weave a wall hanging, or a tapestry or a panel for a shoulder bag using one of the
following themes as the source for your design:
(a) tasty treats
(b) autumn changes
(c) bright lights, big city.
Lino Printing/Block printing
Design and make a print based on one of the following themes:
(a) down the street
(b) looking out
(c) grow.

1st Year - Poster Design

First Year's Graphic Design Poster Project.
Student were given the task to create a poster from one of the following themes:

• Circus Show
• Fashion Show
• Music Show

Students were asked to create clear hand rendered

• Lettering, (Font, Text, Typeface, Typography)
  Here are some useful links to get ideas for different styles
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fonts
  http://www.dafont.com/

And to carefully consider the following headings to convey the message that relates to their theme:

•  Imagery
• Colour 
• Layout
                                 Here are some of the fantastic finished pieces.

Student of the Month - March 2012

1st Year - Cliodhna Harkin.
Cliodhna shows a great interest in art. She is a very consistent worker and put alot of work into her finished 'Fashion Show' poster!

1st Year - Cliodhna Harkin

2nd Yr - Aoife O Connell.
This etching by Aoife of her new puppies is one of my favourite prints from the class projects. She has really captured the essence of what printmaking is..lots of different lines, textures, patterns and a great balance of black and white. Well done Aoife!

2nd Yr - Aoife O Connell

3rd Yr - Aoife Taite.
Aoife has put so much time and hard work into the 3D part of her project. Her giant giraffe head looks fantastic and is almost finished. Keep up the good work Aoife!

3rd Yr - Aoife Taite

5th Yr - Aisling Mulligan

Aisling put in a great performance in the class project for the Anti Litter Film ' The Litter, The Witch and The Wardrobe',  whilst being under attack from the Evil Litter World!

5th Yr - Aisling Mulligan

LCA1 - Kimberley Noone.
Kimberely has great ideas and has made a great contribution to our current project for The Roscommon Schools Sculpture Competition.

LCA1 - Kimberley Noone

6th Yr - Nicola Boyle

Nicola is a very consistent worker and has developed a really lovely shading technique in her life drawing

6th Yr - Nicola Boyle

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Doodle 4 Google 2012

The theme for this year's Doodle 4 Google was 'I WISH....'
Over 100 CCS students entered their designs, and six were selected to represent the school.  Sadly none of the designs made it pass the judging process this year. To view the winning design clink on the link below.

http://www.google.ie/doodle4google/

Here are the six designs that were selected from CCS this year. Well done to this year's Doodlers!

1st Yr - Cliodhna Harkin

1st Yr - Laura McGoldrick

2nd Yr  - Chloe Carrol

2nd Yr - Emma Callaghan

TY - Megan O Connor

Summer in March?!

What an amazing week of sunshine just before the Easter Holidays.... the perfect excuse to go outside and draw our local environment! Students produced some fantastic charcoal and pencil sketches of the local church and school grounds.

2nd Yr Art Class

Pencil Sketch by Mariah Kelly - 2nd Yr

Creative Photography by Liam Beirne - 2nd Yr

Charcoal Sketch by Niamh McElroy

Charcoal study by Kyle Hanmore

Leaving Cert Art Class

Another Scary Movie!

Gaisce participants finished their 13 week animation course, just before the Easter break. Here is their finished (extremely spine chilling!), horror stop motion animation film of, yet another Scary Movie! ''A Scary Movie'' was made By Katie Conlon, Katy Flynn, Rachel Kerrane and Lucy Madden. Each student made their own version of the film, editing and cutting different clips, and adding different sound effects. This finished film is made by Lucy and selected as the best film from the group to be viewed on the blog. Congratulations Lucy and well done to all the girls for their commitment to the course over the past months.

LC - Irish Art - Christian Metalwork Techniques

This week LC students have been busy working in four groups, to create posters that record the finer details of four metal pieces from the Christian Period. Each group were assigned illustrators, typographers, researchers and typists! Each group has to point out the main sections of the artifacts and identify the metalworking techniques involved.

Here are some relevant videos on Metalworking techniques that help explain each process.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLfXXRfRIzY - How to solder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFSmu93q7VY - How to make filligree

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbnsBReU5gk - How Cloisonnee is made

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m55BuiTVp7o - How Champleve is made

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOE99r5N0Ds - How to do chip carving (wood)

3D Ideas using Mod Roc - Making A Figure

Junior Certs have the art room covered in dust, clay, wire, paper mache, newspapers and what ever other materials they can lay their hands on to create the final 3D stage of their projects! Many students are using Mod Roc to create their 3D forms. In this video link from Specialist Crafts it show you how to make a simple Mod Roc figure from a wire armature. This project is perfect for illustrating how armatures work, but also allows you to create human forms in various positions to use as models to sketch from.

5th Yr - Anti Litter Short Film Awards Ceremony!

5^th Year Art students had a fantastic afternoon in the Roscommon Arts Centre on Wednesday 21^st March, for the Awards ceremony and screening of their Anti Litter Short film, entitled 'The Litter, The Witch and the Wardrobe’. This is third year Roscommon County Council in association with the New Media Institute has ran this competition for secondary schools in the area and is a really worthwhile projects for all participants involved. The 5^th Year class spent several weeks creating storyboards, scripts, props and costumes, using a variety of different recycled materials, inspired by the characters of the famous fantasy novel by CS Lewis. Congratulations to all the students for their hard works, and a special thank you to Lauran O Sullivan who presented an introduction to the film on the day, on behalf of the class. Film to be uploaded soon!

Starry Night (interactive animation)

A modern take on Vincent Van Gogh's masterpiece, Starry Night!



Click on the link to find out more info on the original painting.
http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/starryindex.html

Winter Solstice at Newgrange

Useful links relating to Newgrange

http://www.newgrange.com/

New Grange Powerpoint Presentation

Édouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882

Art Project - Visitor Guide

Explore museums from around the world, with Google's Art Project. Discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces. Check out the video below.

2nd Year Project - My Local Environment

My Local Environment.
This project will be an investigation into the streets, buildings, architecture and landscape of your local environment. Students must gather interesting images and information from various different sources. For example around the school, your home, your street. To gather this information students may use:

• Google Street View
• Photographs
• Videos
• Observational Drawings

1. First task is to create a Mind Map of visual images of your ideas for the project. Mind Maps are all the visual images and words you can think of that are associated with your theme or subject matter. Here are some good examples to give you ideas. (click on the images to view larger size)

2. Research and Discuss the following Artists

David Hockney

Vincent Van Gogh  

Jack B Yeats

3. Create A5 pieces of art works, using a variety of different mediums
4. Students will develop several drawings into a final design for a:

• Pastel Drawing  
• Stamp design
• Lino Print    
• Etching

Here are some examples of the projects so far. At the end of the project Ms Kelly with pick a Student and Project of the Year from each 2nd Year Art Class. Best of luck...keep up the great work!

Chalk Pastel Drawings of David Hockneys Paintings:

Emma Callaghan

Aoife O Connell

Tina Kilgariff

Top Mariah Kelly

Aoife O Connell

Gary Madden

Joe McDonald

Niamh McElroy

Saoirse Hamilton

Sarah Darcy

Chloe Carroll