Welcome Students!

I hope that you find this blog helpful for preparing you all for your leaving cert art exam. I will be adding to it continuously so keep checking in with it. Also I will upload details of each art lesson, including homework, notes and revision.

Lesson One: 30th of September. Overview of Art Curriculum and Life drawing.

In this lesson the art curriculum was explained with relevant hand-outs. More information about all of the components of the curriculum is available on the blog. The breakdown of the marking scheme for Life Drawing was explained with hand-out. Life Drawing lesson - students practiced Pose 2 (30 minute pose). Focus placed on art elements: Proportion, Composition(filling the page and placement), Line (quality), Tone (light and shade) and Form (3Dimentionality). Hand-outs for homework; features of the face, eyes and nose.   

Lesson Two: 7th of October. Still Life Drawing

Still life drawing was the focus of this lesson. The powerpoint display gave a brief history of still life and explained the practical and important visual elements of a still life drawing/painting. Important elements explained were composition (the placement of the drawing and filling the page), outline and line quality and mark-making (stippling, hatching, crosshatching...), tone-light, medium and darker tones, volume and three-dimensionality, scale (size of objects drawn), proportion of objects. Students worked in groups and arranged their still life and completed a still life drawing using pencils.