Euan McleodDiebenkornLiz ReesBen Shahn The figure in the landscape How to place figures in relation to their surroundings so that they work also how to place them in relation to one another so they work.. this term will be about finding inspiration in Western Springs Park. and then selection and emphasis of what we have […]

Bev HoldsworthDiane kendall Maggie Lindner Greg Barbour Amanda DeaneCynthia Mitchell Interesting to see the use of the reflected image in the composition – Also if the reference photographs you are working from are not helpful when you come to painting the background how to find other reference to put into the composition and have it […]

For Term 4 we will be working with a new model called  Hannah. There will be an added models cost for the two classes We will draw for the first two days of term, take some photographs and then do some paniting from these. The little chapel to one side of the hall has some […]

Alison Brown’s composition worked well and she managed some successful colour mixing to get the shadow colours cast onto the different coloured   card    Rowena Poole Ro’s painting  was firstly  resolved tonally with one colour(sepia) and then developed with a limited palette of colour.It was very successful because it  developed through the lens of […]

Thinking about gathering objects for collage and I have had a few questions on what objects would be good. Then I read a quote from Raymond Pettibow “Somewhere in New York City there are four or five -four and a half  still unknown objects that belong together.Once together they’ll make a work of art.” and […]

In Term 3 we will go back to working form life , doing some good observation exercises of the mad jugs.Looking through the lens of proportion and relationship we’ll do several days drawing and practise  setting up interesting compositions to work from. Students have committed to finding extreme examples of paintable objects(op shops be on […]

WORK FROM COLLAGE VARIATIONS :TERM TWO We had an interesting time developing shape based compositions using collage, using  another artist’s work as our starting point. Texture and how to describe it in collage became a focus too, and then that gave us license to be creative in how we then described that texture when we […]

Kathy McElroy studied Monets paint application in this work Liz Bosley even made room for Gauguin’s dog

        Gary Parkers work “Kids Crossing” Jo Turner referenced Euan McLeod’s work here John Eaglen copied Vermeer and then did a genre work of his own “in the style of “

Cynthia copied Van Gogh’s boats and then developed her painting of the park in Napier using his distinctive brushstrokes and writhing composition.