Sporting Village Project

week 15

2009-06-27T06:36:00.000-07:00

The pupils have worked very hard, painting and collaging the final artwork, next week will be finishing off all the last little bits of detail. I photographed all the canvas separately just to see how they would look together which is why the background colour looks differant in some of them. Look out for it on display at the Basildon Festival 4th/5th July at Gloucester park.

2009-06-27T06:29:00.000-07:00

Week Fourteen

2009-06-18T01:48:00.000-07:00

The students have worked really well this week, we spent alot of the session drawing out the design onto the canvases, then the groups painted and collaged into the canvas, already the results are quite amazing.

Week Thirteen

2009-06-18T01:28:00.000-07:00

Since half term i have been working with both classes each week on Mondays and Wednesdays in which each class has four groups, each group has been given one canvas .

working from the students own ideas and investigations we designed a piece of artwork to cover all 8 canvases. The students collaged differant textures and layers to the canvas, once dry they then painted the background the same shade of light blue before using print rollers to work in a darker blue tone. This has produced a multi layered two tone background to which the main design will be worked into.

week 11 part 3

2009-05-21T10:24:00.000-07:00

A 2012 logo as designed by one of the students towards the end of the class, brilliant!

week 11 part 2

2009-05-21T10:09:00.001-07:00

I was in twice this week, on monday with Mrs Smollets class and on wednesday with Miss Keens class. we looked at creating textured backgrounds by sticking wallpaper, cardboard etc onto board and then working in with a single colour. A lighter or darker shade was added in various ways using rollers, brushes and quite alot of hands! Flicking paint was another popular way of creating unusual patterns. Above is a selection of the students work from the two classes. excellant results all round!

week 11

2009-05-21T09:57:00.000-07:00

we are getting very close now to working on the finished artwork, over the past ten weeks we have discussed, investigated and researched a whole range of creative disciplines needed to create our finished artwork. The final piece over eight 30 x 40 canvas's will incorporate elements from all the students work and will reflect not only their ideas and creative ability but also their aspirations for the sporting village and its positive impact on the community as a whole.

week 10

2009-05-21T09:46:00.000-07:00

we spoke about all the differant styles and designs of sports clothing, we looked at how these had changed over the years. In particular we looked at how the England football strip had evolved since the first shirts of 1870's which looked very similar to the shirts of the 1960's and how the latest England shirt is very similar in style to the shirts of the 1930's. we discussed retro styling and then the students worked on designing their own sportswear.

Week Nine

2009-05-15T07:22:00.000-07:00

This week we continued our investigations into creating designs through textures and patterns, the students seemed to really enjoy the challenge and created some interesting and unusual artwork.

Week Eight

2009-05-05T02:08:00.000-07:00

This week we concentrated on textures. I brought in lots of differant materials, wallpaper, cardboard, foam etc. I spoke to the students about the added value of working in textures to a painting and we discussed how this process could compliment the design for our project. The students then carried out their own investigations.

Week Seven

2009-04-23T06:31:00.000-07:00

Back after the Easter break, Week seven with Miss Keens class, carrying on with the abstract background theme, the students looked at developing different designs with a range of media. The results were quite impressive!

Meeting with Basildon Renaissance, Nimble Fish and Creative Partnerships

2009-04-23T06:14:00.000-07:00

I met up with project partners, Basildon Renaissance, Nimble Fish and Creative Partnerships to discuss the latest information updates for the proposed build of the Sporting Village. Roy Short from Renaissance briefed us all on the latest developments and invited the students from the school to visit the site during construction. Greg from Nimble Fish and myself briefed everyone on the progress of the artwork for the site hoardings.

Week Six

2009-04-23T06:02:00.001-07:00

For week six, I took in some examples of abstract art to get the students thinking about how they would design the background area of their artwork. We discussed the importance of getting the right colour/pattern/shape to link and compliment the focal points of the artwork .

WEEK FIVE

2009-04-23T05:53:00.000-07:00

This week we continued our investigations for the basic ideas for the design, the students have worked well and have produced lots of varied artwork.

Week Four

2009-03-23T13:12:00.000-07:00

Week Four was the second session with Mrs Smollets Group, once again building on our first weeks designs I split the group into four smaller groups giving each group of students a section of the artwork to design. The students looked at using multiple over laying images with colour and text. They also worked into their designs images that could flow from one part of the overall design to another.

Week Three

2009-03-23T12:53:00.000-07:00

Week Three meant that I was beginning my second session with Miss Keens group. Building on the work that the students produced from week one, the class split into four smaller groups. Each group had their own section of the artwork to design. During this session I think the students started to understand and realise their own potential and the potential for the project as a whole, this was reflected in the creativity of some of the designs and ideas. A very good session.

2009-03-17T04:19:00.000-07:00

The artwork by the students could possibly feature across at least four of the hoardings during construction.

2009-03-17T04:11:00.000-07:00

This article from the Essex Enquirer last week, confirms that the £35 million pound project has now been given the go ahead. "The centre will house a 50 metre competition size swimming pool, a large sports hall, gym, fitness centre, climbing wall, other facilities include six flood lit five-a-side artificial football pitches, meetinf and function rooms, cafe and car parking"

and hopefully artwork by the students of the James Hornsby School!

Week Two

2009-03-03T10:02:00.000-08:00

In the second week of the project I was in with Mrs Smollets year 10 group, because I have not worked with this group before it was a case of covering very similar ground to begin with. The project will be designed and painted by these two groups.

The students quickly grasped the basic principles of the project and in no time at all we were brainstorming ideas and rough designs.

Once again working with a mixture of freehand drawing and collaging the students worked extremely well and produced a considerable amount of work from just one session.

Week one

2009-03-03T04:50:00.000-08:00

After we assembled a rough collection of ideas on the wipe board the students set about working through individual designs on paper using pencils.

They also began to gather reference materials from magazines and newspapers which they then collaged onto separate sheets. The students worked hard and we achieved quite alot in that first session.

Week One

2009-03-03T03:20:00.000-08:00

I started the project with Miss Keen's class which is on a wednesday morning. The school day is broken up into three 100 minute sessions, I must admit that I was initially sceptical about the length of the lesson and feared the students would become bored and restless after an hour or so.

I'm happy to say that this was not the case, The session started by me talking through how and why the project came about, I explained who the project's partners are (Basildon Renaissance, Creative Partnerships, and Nimble Fish) and that the latest two partners in the project are the students, representing The James Hornsby School and myself.

I explained the aims of the project and our objectives we then started to discuss ideas.

The students worked well as a group and contributed lots of ideas during our 'brainstorming' session. we looked at different types of sport, sports men and women and even the types of clothes that they wear.

We spent time working on a wipe board, with students making suggestions and alterations to ideas for a design.