Art

Art Competition: Designing the 2022 Christmas Card

As the Christmas season approaches, students at Stoke College started feeling festive, creating their own Christmas card designs for the whole-school competition. Over 40 students submitted a design; ranging from watercolour paintings, chalk drawings, printmaking patterns and pen illustrations. With so many wonderfully unique creations to choose from, four students have been selected and their designs will be used for the Stoke Christmas cards.

Candela, Yr 9 Watercolour Eden, Yr 10 Lino print

Isla, Yr 12 Watercolour

Rodrigo, Yr 9

Colouring pencils & collage

Runner-up - Izzie, Yr 8

Runner-up - Riley, Yr 9

Runner-up - Lily, Yr 8

Runner-up - Alex, Yr 8

Runner-up - Eleanor, Yr 9

Runner-up - Sofiia, Yr 10

Artwork Of The Week

In the second half-term this year, we have seen more fantastic artwork from Stoke students exhibited in the Church.

Congratulations to Tilly B in Year 10, Henry H in Yr 11 and Lily C in Year 8. Tilly showcased her beautiful drawing skills in her still-life mixed media drawing piece using tonal pencil, continuous line and colouring pencils. See below. Henry has been exploring still-life, too, in his GCSE coursework, completing this enchanted watercolour study (see Henry’s work above). And to Lily, who has showcased creative confidence in her unique Surreal Being study, applying watercolour in vivid colours to her monoprint of an invented character.

Creating Beyond the Classroom

Miss Coll loves to see the artwork students have been creating in their free time. Art not only brings enjoyment, but is beneficial for stress reduction, problem solving skills and enhancing your fine motor skills. Creating in your free time can help promote imagination and encourage creative observation too. Year 9 student Bruno N brought in his fantastic basketball player drawings to share with fellow basketball enthusiasts in the year. To explore your own creative ideas, students are encouraged to join Miss Coll’s art club Tuesday after school and Wednesday lunchtime, where students can use resources to create anything they would like!

If you feel inspired to get creating, here are some crafty ideas to spark your creative interest and prepare for the Christmas period:

Use a roll of brown paper and draw or paint your Christmas inspired doodles – use this as your wrapping paper for all your presents.

Recycle your old toilet roll tubes to create Christmas characters. For a snowman, paint the tube white, glue three buttons down the centre, wrap red paper around the neck for a scarf, cut an orange carrot shape for a nose and don’t forget to draw a happy coal smile and eyes in black pen.

Cut snowflakes, trees and stars out of black card and stick to an old clear jam jar. Light a candle and place inside the jar and see the shadows cast across your room for a cosy Christmas decoration.

What’s Been Happening in Hambling?

The Art studio has been a hive of creative activity this term. Students have been exploring new media and deepening their knowledge of others. The results have been outstanding.

Year 7 students have been exploring shape, form and pattern in paint. Using watercolour and acrylic, young creatives have been turning shape into form and now begin their Sonia Delaunay inspired paintings, working hard to achieve accurate brush control and bold acrylic colour palettes. Year 7, can you remember the difference between shape and form? And what is the difference between contrasting and complementary colours?

Year 8 students have loved creating their own ‘Surreal Being’ collage in art, creating imaginary characters that are out of this world. These collages were used to create a monoprint before students applied watercolour paint in unexpected and fantastical colours. Ask your child, what does surreal mean? And why is it called a monoprint?

Also printmaking, Year 9 students have begun turning their self-portraits into a lino print reduction. After creating a detailed design plan, students have carved and printed layers of their print using a monochromatic palette of printing ink. Year 9, are you able to explain to a friend or parent what a lino print reduction is? Do you remember what monochromatic means? And how can we show form in a portrait using colour?