Welcome!


On behalf of staff members: Mrs Johnson, Mrs Callcut, Miss Bailey, Mrs Shipley, Mr Haggett, Mr Lewin, Miss Bailey and Mrs Jones....

Welcome to the Art and Design Department.


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Friday 21 September 2012

Light the blue touchpaper....

... and stand well back! Mr Charles's Year 11 group produce some great 'Light Drawings' using an SLR camera with an exposure set to 30 seconds. Just enough time to light a firework, draw a pineapple or write out a word. This is a highly experimental way of working, and the group were totally up for it! Well done you lot... I think the results speak for themselves!














Wednesday 19 September 2012

Red Hot Silly Peppers

12 AGCE ride again!

Expressive stick and ink drawings of green and red peppers. Time... 40 minutes! Proper art... get stuck in!








Monday 17 September 2012

DEAD FISH!!!!

Recipe: 

14 AGCE Students (Year 12)
A Big box of graphite pencils
A2 Paper
Scissors and Masking Tape
5 DEAD MACKERAL

Instructions:

GO FOR IT!!! Relentlessly pursue an agenda of mark-making and expressionist drawing techniques relating to earlier, experimental, abstract research pages (and some home research on the artist Soutine).

Time: 50 mins.
















Not a bad haul! We done to 12 AGCE for this challenging drawing exercise.
Soundtrack provided by Mr Scruff - 'Fish', Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends - 'When the boat comes in', and Sebastian the Crab - 'Under the Sea' (that last one was for Kat! Awwwwww!).

Friday 14 September 2012

Melbourne Art Festival





Show up! Now all you need to do is... Show up!

School work on exhibition as part of the Melbourne Art Festival this Saturday/Sunday.

About Me

This blog is devoted to students working with Chellaston Academy Art Department, and features examples of the fantastic work they produce (Key stages 3, 4 and 5... Years 7 - 13). Please feel free to leave constructive comments - and if you are an attending pupil, we would love to hear from you. If you have any ideas for the site, requests for help/ideas with your current project or work you would like to see on this page - please speak to your current Art Teacher who will advise you how to submit your post. Don't forget - this page only displays the most recent posts... please use the archive link tree at the bottom of the page to visit older items. Please also visit the Learning Platform for lots more information. If you have any questions please post a message on the blog. Alternatively Mr Charles an be contacted at rogercharles@chellaston.derby.sch.uk