Welcome to the George Spencer Art Department Blog!

Hello and welcome to the George Spencer Art Department blog!

The Art department are:

Mrs Eddy (Head of Art), Mrs Sidey, Miss Welsh & Miss Johnson...

... plus all of our Key Stage 3, GCSE & A level Art and Photography students!


Thursday 19 December 2013

Year 8 Turkey Disguise


Christmas dinner is just around the corner and the Turkey’s are trying to escape. The Year 8's helped them on their mission by putting them in fancy dress!
 

 
 
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Everyone

Thursday 12 December 2013

Digital Art Work

Csenge Nemeti in Year 9 has been learning how to digitally draw/paint in Photoshop. This is a beautiful piece of artwork that shows just what can be achieved with a digital package.

Thursday 21 November 2013

Classroom turns into Photographic Studio

The backdrops that were installed over the Summer have become an extremely useful tool, and very well used, by the Photography students.

Any donations of studio lighting and equipment would be gratefully received!!!


Year 8 Clay Texture Paperweights

8ELM, 8ERA and 8RFJ have been exploring Texture through the using clay. They have developed modelling, joining and incising skills. Once the pieces have dried and been fired they will add colour.








Friday 1 November 2013

Year 7 Winter Wishes Competition

Leadership always set the Year 7's a competition to design and make the cover for the GSA greeting card. This year's theme was Winter Wishes.
Well done to all the Year 7's that entered, the following have been selected to go to Leadership to choose the winner. Good Luck!
Adam Orchinston 7TK

Aeron Slater 7CH 

Archie Layfield 7LDR 

 Christopher Fourie 7SCO

 Elizabeth Fowler 7LDR

 Freya Hawker 7ML

 Ginny West 7CH

 Holly Mellor 7TK


Madison Upston 7LDR 

 Oliver Ridgway 7CH

Reece Caine 7TK 

Guy Fawkes

Well done to Kamran, James, Jordan, Kel-C and Louie who have made this amazing Guy Fawkes for the Fireworks event taking place tomorrow night! We took Guy for a walk around the school before he left the Art department earlier today...

 
 In the Art department...
 

Hello my name is Guy!
 

 
Reading in the library...

 
Last supper...




 
In isolation :(
 
BYE GUY!!!

Thursday 31 October 2013

Year 7 Art Trip to Yorkshire Sculpture Park

It is the time of year when we take the Year 7's to YSP to experience Art work in situ. The day is full of activities: modelling with playdough, texture rubbings, poem writing, designing and drawing, human sculptures and found object sculptures.

Inspired by Barbara Hepworth's Family of Man


 Goldsworthy inspired leaf arrangements
 The pupils write poems based on their time on the trip, after looking at the work of Alec Finlay. These have been written on luggage tags so we can display them in the trees outside the Art Department.

"I look out over the field
Sheild my eyes from the sun,
I admire the art and the sculptures
today has been good fun"
 
"Sitting still in the dappled sunlight,
Bronze figures in the distance,
Awaiting pictures to be taken,
this is Yorkshire Sculpture Park"
 




The pupils use their experiences from the day in Term 2 when they complete a sculpture project.

Friday 18 October 2013

Art and Photography Awards for 2012 - 2013

Last night was the George Spencer Academy Prize Giving Evening. The evening is a great chance to celebrate the successes of the students across the whole school and to highlight those that have achieved above and beyond. The following images show the Artwork of the Art award winners.

Work hard and next year it could be you....