St Joseph's College workshop page

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As from September 2003, the College has become a Specialist Mathematics and Computing College.

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I am confident that with our commitment to high standards, our very experienced staff and your support and involvement in your son’s education, he will achieve personal success and go on to gain a place in higher education in the future.

E Connolly

Art Department
The department aims to promote and enhance creative awareness as an integral part of the evolving discipline of physical and intellectual faculties culminating in the appreciation and understanding of the 'beautiful' in art and nature.
It is a statutory requirement that art be studied by all pupils to Keystage 3 and provisions exist for those wishing to extend their training to GCSE level and beyond. Our task is to ensure that each pupil is given the opportunity to:

Stimulate awareness through direct acquaintance, observation and analysis.
.Extend skills and expand on previous work.
.Learn to apply skill and knowledge to the aesthetic expression of an idea through colour, line and form. To further determine the canons of taste upon which criticism of the arts is based, and to develop their own judgement in reviewing their work and that of others.
.Gain an insight into the methods and techniques used within the Art World: study significant periods, individual artists and the work of other cultures (Western and non-Western).
.Explore the channels of making both 3D and 2D work on a varying scale. more enlightening perhaps, to experience the excitement and challenge.

BLOG ABOUT OUR PROJECT

Pollution

Hi, my name is Ruari; I am from St. Joseph’s College in south London. In our project for art we are studying pollution on our central river, the Thames (in London).
We have been engraving pictures onto lino based on the river and pollution. Then we covered the lino in black ink. After that we placed the ink covered lino onto an A4 piece of paper, and pressed down with a roller.
Next, we scanned in the completed paper pictures and edited it them on Photoshop, and finally we saved it ready to be put on to our final design for the festival.

Ruari.

Pollution
Hi
I am Chris
I am from St Josephs College, our theme for the River Thames festival is POLLUTION!
The school we our linked to is in China, what we did to make our final piece is lino printing.
First we had a few practice drawings on A4 paper then we drew our final design on lino with marker pens. We cut it out with a lino cutter then we rolled ink over the drawing and placed a plain piece of paper over it then rolled over it with a clean roller and left it to dry over night

After all of that was finished we scanned all the prints on the computer and chose colours to see if it looked good and to see were to put all the pictures.
During this I have learned so many things about the River Thames festival, it is the 2nd biggest festival in London, there will be over 2 million people walking by our final design

Pollution

Hi, my name is Jack Howard and I’m part of a Year 9 Gifted & Talented Art Club.
We have been chosen to create a piece of artwork for the Thames Festival. The Thames Festival is a two-day event and is the second biggest free London event next to the Notting Hill Carnival. We are linked to a school in China.
First of all, we brainstormed some ideas around our theme, Pollution.
Next, we used a lino print to make our prints in black ink.
Once all of our prints were done, we scanned them into the computer and edited their colour, size and re-arranged them until we were happy with the result.

By Jack Howard

Hi,
My name is Luke, and I am in the Gifted and Talented Art class. This is why I have been chosen to take part.
First, I 'Brainstormed' out all our ideas on paper. I drew two factories because they contribute a lot to pollution.
Then I marked it out with a pencil on the lino, then went over it with pen.
After that I cut it out with a lino cutter. Then I rolled it over with black ink, then printed it twice onto clean paper.
I cut out the main print and scanned it onto the computer, we used 'Photoshop' to put all of our pieces together and added colour.

By Luke Groszewski

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