Grade 7- surealist paintings

Grade 7's created Surrealist paintings using watercolours. They created the images by cutting out and arranging objects from magazines onto a magazine background. They then used the grid system to enlarge the image onto A2 paper. The watercolour paint was built up in layers to give a very realistic feel. The compositions are really strange, some dont really make sense, like dreams. All the students were inspired by the Surrealist Artists Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte.

Year 8 Story Quilts

Over the last 10 weeks the grade 8's have created class story quilts, inspired by the American Artist Faith Ringgold. Each student produced a square that represented something about themselves using cloth, pastels and fabric dye, they then sewed each peice together to create the patchwork quilt. The results are very colouful and are being displayed in their form rooms around the school.

Elementary Art Club

The Elementary Art club started their 1st project today. They looked at the Artist Henri Rousseau and created their own version of one of his paintings (above). Each leaf shows their blending techniques using oil pastels. I was really impressed with the enthusiasm and talent of each student and look forward to seeing how the project progresses. Well done!

Artists of the months for August/september

It has been a while since I anounced some talented artists for the month, so here are 2 pupils for each year group, well done.

Grade 7: Nicole Chau (7DFa) Jeanette Ho(7MZa) for their great surreal enlarged paintings.

Grade 8: Celestine Cai (8MCu), Sebastian Teo (8RKi) for their beautiful painted textile pannels for their class story quilts.

Students are chosen for consistent effort, improvement and high quality work.

Trash 2 Fash: fashion show night.

The fashion show was a huge success with around $500 raised for charity. The Art club, Dance Club and grade 10s worked incredibly hard on this project over the last few months and I was very pleased with the way they all worked together to put on this event. Well done to all of you! Here are a few pics from the night.

IB fashion project

Jing Xi's response to the old and new Singapore, divided by a rose used as a symbol of the emotions of many Singaporeans. Painted paper mache mold and fabric rose.

Ernest's fashion illustrations using organic themes and influences. Mixed media on watercolour paper.

Zhen He's fashion illustration out of a series of 3. This one is inspied by Indian Culture. Watercolour on paper.

Natalie at work producing fabric designs and photographs inspired by the Hippies in the 1960's.

Fashion Show workshop

This Saturday a group of 21 students from all grades came for a 4 hour workshop creating garments out of recycled materials. This was all started by 2 grade 10 students, Grace and Lauren, who were inspired by Earth day and since then have been planning a fashion show titled "Trash 2 Fash". The event will take place on Friday 22nd August, 5.15pm. Tickets will go on sale soon. The event will also include Hip Hop dancing and a showcase of the IB and FIB fashion art projects. Please come along and see what the Students have produced in such a short period of time. All proceeds will go to the charity 'Friends of the Earth International'.