Artists' responses to CHCH earthquake

Visit the new website www.articulate.org.nz where artists talk about their Quake experiences and their work post quake. It is interesting to note the effects on their art and their living arrangements.

This week the largest work of art on display in NZ is being installed in CHCH . It is by artist Darryn George and it hangs from the City COuncil building on Montreal Street.

After a wide range of artists' studies in term2, we are doing some activities to gain a taste of Surrealist Art as well as learning how to design and create successful posters for PREP. This will involve collage, paint, layout, lettering, computer skills etc.
In week 2 we have Artist Quilliam Collister visiting Fernside School. Quilliam does pencil drawings and watercolour paintings so we eagerly await his time with us. I am also copying a picture of a winning chch recovery flag design run by a radio station. What do you think of it?

Cardboard textured mono prints

Following the traumatic experiences and images of the February earthquake our students wrote about them, and the rebuilding of Christchurch. They have also created cardboard mono prints depicting an image that was meaningful to them, or one that showed recovery. Plants were depicted as part of that recovery. Please enjoy some of our prints. Next term will see the publication of our work in book form.

This week the students have created some stunning prints from their wood cuts. Their results are worth seeing as they have  mastered overprinting techniques with very few cut fingers acquired along the way. Parents, please ask your children for a sample.

Woodcut prints

This week is a busy and creative one in the senior block. We have photographed our imagine a day card block prints, and our writing in preparation for a book we will create.

We are cutting our wood cut blocks on Tuesday and begin printing on Friday.
We would love to have some parent helpers on Friday.

Some students have taken a woodblock home today so they can make another one or two so we can all be cutting at the same time. Thanks to any parents who were able to assist.

Hand held hair dryers are a great help with drying our prints - do you have one at home that you could lend us, or even donate to our art department?

Thanks
Annabel

Enviro Prints

Enjoy some of the published foam prints from Room 10

March creations

Watch this space as we post our enviroprints!

Foam Pad Environment Prints from Rooms 9 and 10

We have zoomed in on a plant to include some texture and detail. After reading the book Lester and Clyde by James Reece, we thought about our impact on the School environment. We then chose to draw either something that belonged (eg. a spider web) or something that didn’t, such as a can. After indenting our drawings onto a foam pad we experimented with the printing ink. Using the brayers we varied the quantity of ink used as well as the colours. Our final challenge was to publish four of our prints. We had to consider which mounting paper, and what layout best displayed our work.

At the moment we are preparing a cardboard and textured material block relating to images from the earthquake or how we see the new Christchurch. Together with our written work, Imagine . . . we will be making a booklet to give to Schools in Christchurch.

Art in Rooms 9 and 10 at Fernside School

Art in Rooms 9 and 10 at Fernside School

Welcome to our new Visual Arts' Blog

Annabel, Nadja, and Andrew hope to keep you informed of what is happening in our programme, make you aware of any events that may interest you, and share our students' creations and thoughts.

We hope you will also share your expertise and opinions with us.

Gallery Website: www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu

Visit the Gallery's website to keep abreast of exhibitions that may interest you. If you know of local events or have a calendar of what is on at the Rangiora Library's Gallery please post it!

Art in Rooms 9 and 10 at Fernside School

Welcome to our new Visual Arts' Blog

Annabel, Nadja, and Andrew hope to keep you informed of what is happening in our programme, make you aware of any events that may interest you, and share our students' creations and thoughts.

We hope you will also share your expertise and opinions with us.