Tuesday 9 December 2014

OXFAM OXMAS DAY Friday 12th December

Oxmas Mufti Day
Friday
Help make everyday feel like Christmas for children in developing countries.
Deck yourself out in a Christmas costume   and give communities living in poverty a gift that lasts a lifetime.
Bring a donation on the day and donate online.

10:25 Christmas Tree photo on the field,
come and be a living decoration. Please bring along tinsel etc.

Candy Cane Delivery Service available to buy from 8:20-8:40 in the hall foyer.

Photo competitions categories
 a class sELFie
individual sELFie
Group sELFie (max 6 people)
teacher sELFie
send you photos to
make sure you add your full name and class.
*If you require a photographer for your class photo, please contact Logan Cooper


Wednesday 3 December 2014

Art Extension responses to The Real Art Roadshow visit





Eva Crieghton - drypoint with monoprint
This piece of work is in response to looking at work in the Real Art Roadshow when it came to Heaton this year. I used Ricky Swallow’s ‘Blanket Shark’ and Seraphine Pick’s ‘Wolfman’. I like the sketchy look of the Wolfman art, it also includes lots of interesting things that you gradually see. The blanket shark I like because it is a fierce shark but it is wrapped in a cuddly and harmless blanket to make you not afraid. I also like the unique texture the shark shows. I combined these two because they are two completely different art pieces but still almost have a same theme. I used a different texture for the sky and the water in my art to relate to the unique textures on the shark.




Iona Taylor - charcoal
When the Art Bus came in term 2 art extension had been tasked with creating a work of art that incorporated at least 3 of our favourite works in the bus. For my picture I chose a computer edited photograph and 2 sculptures. The first was ‘Atmospheric Optics 1’ by Megan Jenkinson. The second was ‘Blanket Shark’, by Ricky Swallow and the third was’ Skully-Pops’ by Wayne Youle. You can see all three of these artists’ works in my charcoal drawing.





Logan Cooper
This charcoal artwork was based around two artworks, including Neil Frazer's "Deep Freeze" and Megan Jenkinson’s 'Atmospheric Optics 1' . Taking the idea of the mountainous range and mixing it with symmetrical shaded forms. Ending up making a simple minimalistic, eye catching piece, with lots of character...


 



Laouena Le Loeur – drypoint with monoprint
My inspiration for this print came from an array of things. I really loved the texture on Michael Smither’s ‘Boys on eth Beach’. I incorporated this into my waves and mountains. The flowers in Dick Frizzell’s ‘Still Life with Sheep’s Skull and Iris’ appealed to me because of the way he outlined them to bring out the details. I strived to do something similar in my dandelions.








Emma Doreen
My Saskia Leek inspired picture was made to show two possible futures. One of the futures showed a clean environment with happy flowers, filled bins, clean water and a singing bird. The picture also included blue skies with white fluffy clouds, green grass and birds. This is the good future of my picture.
However, on the left the future is terrible, a horrible future. In the dark, contaminated water skulls bob about. On the mud, flowers die. The bins are empty. Smoke fills the air, making it impossible to breathe. The city lights are out, the trees are stark naked. On one thin stick sits a bird, wondering if their future will ever change.






 Reference Art Works



Dick Frizzel - Still life with Sheep's skull with Iris

Wayne Youle - Skully-Pops

Ricky Swallow - Blanket Shark

Neil Frazer - Deep Freeze
Michael Smithers - Boys on the Beach

Megan Jenkinson - Atmospheric Optics 1



Fiona Campbell from the Real Art Roadshow wrote that she had "seen their combinations and thought they showed impressive skills in observation and creation - I hope they go far in their future artistic endeavors."



















       

      
               

Saturday 15 November 2014

Van Gogh, Art and Science talk.



Click on 'Starry, Starry Night' to find out about turbulence!

Thursday 13 November 2014

New Students and current year 7s

If you are a year 6 student who is coming to Heaton next year, welcome.
I hope you enjoy exploring our art blog and I look forward to meeting you soon.


Year 7s
Drawing on the Right Hand Side of your Brain.
Betty Edwards.
http://www.drawright.com/



Wednesday 5 November 2014

Poppies

The Tower of London Poppies



 Tower of London poppies

Find out more about this very popular art work.

Monday 3 November 2014

Easy animation

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/11/augdemented-reality-2-animation/


Check out this great idea for animation .
Click on image.

Friday 31 October 2014

The story behind a painting.


Read the story behind this painting by Jenny Urquart. It illustrates Andrew Motion's poem 'Setting the Scene' but also commemorates the soldier from Oxford University who died or were wounded in the First World War.
Click on the image .

Thursday 23 October 2014

Latest News

Catch up

Finally trying to catch up on some news after our trip to Europe. So much art! We spent 6 hours in the Uffizzi Gallery in Florence as well as many other Galleries. La Sagrada Famillia in Barcelona was incredible. Almost every church we visited, large or small, held amazing work. The scale of the Forum in Rome was staggering as was the architectural achievements of the Colosseum and the Pantheon. I was pleased to see an old friend, the Leonardo cartoon in the National Gallery, London, but was unable to find the time to see so many other paintings I used to visit.

Hopefully you will have seen the campaign to bring Neil Dawson's sculpture 'Fanfare' back to Christchurch. It was a gift to Australia and was hung from Sydney Harbour Bridge for the Millennium. You can be part of this . Check out the links on the pictures to see how to become a fan.
 Fanfare
 Fanfare

On a more serious note. The current situation in Hong Kong has lead to a proliferation of artwork based on Umbrellas, the icon for this protest movement. 


Everywhere at works are springing up helping bring their message to people all around the world.

Our WAKA banners from the Big Printmaking Festival are now back at Heaton and are on display in the LRC.

Want to own an original artwork by a well known artist for $67. Go to St Andrew's College Friday 14th, Saturday 15th-Sun 16th November 10am-5pm.
check out 



Sunday 6 July 2014

LAST CHANCE TO SEE 
THE CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL OFFICE AND BALLANTYNES TEAROOMS EXHIBITIONS. 
They both finish this week 1st August.

Welcome to this site if you have been visiting either of these shows

 The Big Printmaking Festival Art Show
Christchurch City Council 
July 2014

Heaton Normal Intermediate School Printmaking Exhibition, The Tearooms, Ballantynes.





Big Printmaking Festival Art Show
Migration and Identity – An exhibition of student work from the
Canterbury Art Teachers’ Association Big Printmaking Festival, 2014

Back in August 2013, Canterbury Art Teachers applied to the Christchurch City Council Creative Communities Scheme for a grant to run a week long printmaking festival ending with a ‘giant printmaking happening’ on the street in the CBD. An occasion, it was speculated, that would uplift, entertain, educate and involve Cantabrians in a visual spectacle of relief printmaking on a ‘super scale’. The theme, we postulated, would be Migration and Identity in the CBD!

At the beginning of October, we learned that our application had been successful and we set to work, with the help of the Council, finding a suitable central location for the main event in what seemed to be an ever changing and challenging CBD environment. The vacant expanse where buildings once stood, at the intersection of Cashel and High Streets, offered a stunning visual backdrop of deconstruction and construction in the heart of an earthquake battered but resilient city. But could the weather, in May, be relied on for the outdoor printing of large woodblocks using an industrial road roller? We held our collective breath…

To support the main event, and with the help of CPIT, Hagley Community College Art Department and the Council, we planned a series of inspiring artist talks, trade displays and supporting exhibitions, focused on printmaking, from May to July 2014.

INSPIRE DAY on Sunday 18 May, featuring Jason Greig, Bianca Van Leeuwen, Sandra Thomson, Michael Reed, Gayle Forster, Sam Harrison, Kate Rivers, Ken Cartwright, Susie Cox and Lizzie Moyle, attracted a large number of enthusiasts. CATA will have videos of artists talks and Jason Greig’s superb monoprint demonstration available online soon for the wider community to access as a resource.

CPIT’s phenomenal exhibition, thINK, showcased International, NZ and student printmaking and was a must see show! Grant Banbury and Micheal Reed spoke of the powerful voice of the printmaking tradition be that personal or political.  

INSPIRED TO PRINT was an exhibition held at Christchurch South Library, Colombo Street showing Canterbury student printmaking from a variety of Primary, Intermediate and Secondary Schools. The show demonstrated printmaking is flourishing in our community.
South Library Show
South Library SHow


BPF Road Roller Day dawned clear and fine on Sunday 25 May. During the morning artists and many students from Canterbury schools inked their large scale works. Participants could clearly view a huge building being demolished two blocks away. There was a great sense of collective involvement and energy. Unfortunately the event was forced to close after lunch due to severe winds. Participants and bystanders were able to check out the SCAPE Stencil Art Project in Cashel Mall near the Bridge of Remembrance. The final printing of woodblocks was achieved through the use of a road roller (thanks to Komatsu and Contract Consulting) and the use of a very large printmaking press (thanks to Little River artist Josh Bashford).

As the photographs from our BPF Road Roller Day show, our CBD is certainly not what it was; it is now a very open, much flatter environment, but it is still a place full of rich and vibrant Art. Many works are permanent but others are temporary or being hidden by new buildings.




The work on these walls, from schools across Christchurch, shows even as people, institutions and amenities migrate and put down tentative new roots, the spirit of Cantabrians, both new and old, is resilient and our identity richly diverse.

We would like to thank the superb group of passionate and dedicated people who made the Big Printmaking Festival happen. Sue Pearce, Rachel Goldstein, Karen Lange, Fiona Taylor, Gayle Forster, Anton Mogridge, Fiona Van Oyen and Robyn Webster.

Lisa Ponweiser (CATA )Secretary and Kate Rivers

 Christchurch City Council Exhibition

Click on image above to see the show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reQJxyeZIAs

Christchurch City Council Show preparation and opening.
Music by kind permission of Helen Webby.


The theme for this show was MIGRATION AND IDENTITY
Included in the show are 7 waka prints
 These large woodcuts, by Rangi Ruru Girls’ School, Breens School, Heaton Normal Intermediate School and a combined schools group ( Beckenham School, Christchurch South Intermediate School, Thorrington School and Cashmere Primary) form a small fleet
of Waka.
The one of the artists working on the Rangi Ruru Girls' School waka was Abi Hone. A candle , poems and a photo of her form part of the exhibition in her memory.

Waka iconography.
The imagery explores the theme of Migration and Identity, and includes personal cargo that the students, or their
ancestors, might choose to pack on their journey to a new home, be that within New Zealand or from another county.
A number of students were born overseas and many have also had to cope with packing and moving within Canterbury
as a result of the earthquakes. In each case choices have to be made as to what to pack and, and indeed what to leave
behind.
Our packing inventories included:-
Cultural items - that reminded us of our cultural roots, where we come from, who we belong to.
Useful items - the tools of our trades, technology, etc.
Sentimental/Special items - e.g. the teddy bear given by a grandparent, a favourite piece of music or jewllery
Spiritual items - of religious or spiritual significance.
We also looked at the Canterbury Museum Collection and have included some pieces from there.
In one print you may see a Christening Gown; in another a mug, that one imagines would have been given to someone
as they
emigrated from England, on which is written ‘ When this you see remember me though many leagues we distant be’.
These works, and prints from other schools, also on this theme, were printed by a Road Roller as part of our


Big print Festival.
We are very grateful to these sponsors for their support of the festival.





Heaton Normal Intermediate School 
Ballantynes Tearooms Show