Castlerea Community School Art Blog

Leaving certs here is a great tutorial on drawing the facial features that you may find useful in life drawing. Please watch a few times to get a good grasp of the outline etc and then following along with this video give the drawing a good go!!!

The 1st year art class did an excellent job on drawing the face in a grid for homework. Here, are examples of the students work.  Here are the finished pottery pieces the class made from a few weeks back.  Here are some examples of the 3d lettering the class made using coloured card.

The class were very busy completing their beautiful silhouette paintings. They first used chalk pastel for the background and then using black poster paint, painted the darker shadow. Here are the students hard at work and their final pieces of beautiful art work. Eoin Coffey Jerrud Sharkey Lauren McNamara Ellen Collins Another project the class completed was the "Autumn Tree". Here the students painted the outline of a tree,and using a glue gun selected a range of colourful buttons to decorate their tree.                                                            Lauren McNara Eoin Coffey The class also produced these fabulous paper collage artworks.                                                               Lauren McNamara                                                                                                          Eoin Coffey                                        

Please answer the following question and hand it in for fri 18th. Higher Level 2012 Masaccios (1401-1428) grasp of perspective and three- dimensional modelling is seen in the "The Tribute Money" which is shown below. Discuss Masacios work with detailed reference to the Tribute Money, th eperiod in which it was produced, its subject matter, composition, materials and the techniques used in its producton and Name and briefly discuss one other artist from this period. Illustrate your answer. (50m) When answering this question make sure to include the following into your answer:  The development of the Renaissance in Italy Who was Masaccio ? What sculptures / and artists influenced his work to bring about his own use of perspective into his paintings.- be very clear here and very specific  When was this painting produced (early renaissance) the paintings subject matter  (what is the story of the painting),composition( layout and arrangement of painting) materi

Observe and draw the following still life composition into your sketch pads.

Students,observe the arrangement and the composition of the still life on the left hand side below.Using the outline drawing on the right as a guide, complete the compositional drawing as a tonal drawing .(using pencil). Well done class on an excellent effort on your Homework. Here is your beautiful artwork. Katelynn king                                                Aoife Colllins