What's been happening in the Art room this term? 

By Richard Larsen | Posted: Thursday June 29, 2017

Casebrook students have been busy in the Art Room creating amazing artwork with their new teacher Mr Larsen. 

Term two at Casebrook Intermediate has seen the arrival of our new Art room teacher Mr Larsen. The Year 7's have been busy learning many of the basic skills involved in art, some of which are: colour, line and composition to create wonderful and unique pieces of art. They have been challenged to forget what they know about drawing and asked to consider new techniques like 'blind contour' and 'gestural' drawing. Blind contour drawing is a style of drawing where you aren't allowed to look at your paper! 

The Year 8's have been working their way through a unit on multimedia art which has seen them experiment and master an array of different art mediums like paint, collage, pencil, Indian ink and charcoal. Casebrook has some very talented artists and the work the Year 8's have been doing is both technically advanced  and creative. Mr Larsen will be displaying some of the Year 8's work in the foyer next term, so watch this space!

Finally the art extension group has been independently working through their own inquiry projects and learning from each other as Mr Larsen runs weekly 'workshops' designed around the needs of individual student projects. Some of the student projects include Maori art, clay sculpture, Indian ink illustrations and many more. 

Image Gallery