Present Students - Future Creators

This week, our provisional Year 10 GCSE Visual Arts students were granted a workshop experience to acquire a taste of what life will be like as an art and design and photography student at Eastbrook School. The workshop was broken down into two sessions full of creative direction, advancement of artistic skillsets and especially some pace!

Year 9s began the workshop with a talk on what to expect from their lessons at GCSE level, with a quickfire round of questions. What is it like? What will you learn? What are the objectives? What will we create?

This was then followed by an introduction to a task and proposed outcome. Year 9 artists were introduced to the concept of Still Life and explored the artist movement of Cubism by choice. They were set the greatest challenge of drawing first-hand from objects, using observational skills to create sketches of what they saw after a short teacher demonstration on drawing techniques, dimension, form and depth. Soon after Year 9 were demonstrated to and set a further task of painting their Still Life's in a Cubist style.

Our photographers were introduced to some foundational subject knowledge, learning different genres of photography and key concepts such as how to use light and how to frame a subject. They were then taught some of the more advanced techniques in Photoshop, such as layering, blending and controlling colour and tonal values.

All of this was an insight into how to learn and reflect while putting into practice what has been demonstrated to them efficiently. Year 9 relished the opportunity to use equipment, processes and time in a way they had never done before with, as you can see, remarkable results!

Well Done to our Future GCSE Students – we are PROUD!