8RD3 Visual Arts Drawing exam top scorer

Adam L scored top of his class in the drawing exam on the seated figure. The principal, Ms Lynne Searle remarked, 'The foreshortening is very well-observed, wonderful!"

8GO2 Visual art, Drawing exam, top scorer

Z D Pruksapun received top marks in drawing the teacher, Ms Gibbs.

9Y Marina Art Study, images for Central Coast Advocate review

1 John Olsen, Entrance to Seaport of desire 1964 Synthetic Polymer on paint on canvas, 167.6x213.4 cm AGNSW

2 Wendy Stavrianos (B. 1941 Australian) Night Curtain 1983 Acrylic and wax on canvas, 172 x 240 cm.

3 Claude Lorrain (1600-82) Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the stag of Sylvia 1682

Oil on canvas, 120x 150 cm. Presented by Mrs W. F. R. Weldon in 1926 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

4 Jeffrey Smart, (B. 1921 Australian) Underground Car Park 1993 oil on canvas 76x110 cm

5 Mandy Martin (1952 Australian) Lake Julius 1994 Oil on Ochres and pigment on Linen, diptych, 152x550 cm Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery Sydney

(Scanned from Israel, Glenis (1997), 'Places & Spaces' in Artwise, Milton Queensland, Wiley & Sons, p.90-91.) Republished for educational use only. The copyright is attributed and the creator of this website is indemnified from any changes/DAMAGES/LIBEL due to UNKNOWN parties revising this page without the author's authorisation or knowledge.

GHS 10x reinterpreted object

Congratulations! It was a very successful unit. I love your chairs. Your teachers are very proud of you.

Dissecting Art, science & medicine

Spectacular Bodies
Dr Fae Brauer speaks at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW
6:00 pm Tuesday April 20th Cnr oxford st & Greens Rd Paddington Sydney NSW 2021
Main lecture theatre, EG02

7RD3 expressive portraits

GHS-7GO2 hero-image distortions-expressive portraits

GHS-9Y sculpture

These are samples of sculptures in progress.

GHS-10x working bees images

GHS-year9-assignments A&B images

Andrew Wyeth, Christina's World, (nationality?), (when?)





Frederick McCubbin, Down on his luck, Australian, (when?)



(firstname) Degas, Ballerina, (nationality?), (when?)


Pablo Picasso, The tragedy, (nationality?), (when?)


(firstname?) Cezanne, The gleaners, (nationality?), (when?)


(firstname?) Millet, The Gleaners(title), (nationality), (When?)


(firstname?), Gericault, Raft of Medusa (title), (nationality), (when?)


(firstname?) Rembrandt. The Night Watch(title), (nationality?), (when?)


(fist name?) Vermeer, Milkmaid(title), (nationality?), (when?


(first name?) Boticelli, Primavera (title), (nationality). (when?)

9Y sculpture

Hello GHS 9Y.

You will see more images on this post after next lesson because I am assuming that you would have worked on your sculptures a bit more.

8GO2 Visual art

Hello 8GO2

Your works will be returned next class. I must say that I am very impressed with your works. Some probably a bit too rough on their drawing. Its not easy to draw the human figure because it takes time. You just need a lot of practice. Considering the limited time you had to draw, it was a very good effort indeed.

Heres one example (more to follow):

8RD2 Art class images from Media stations

Hello. Welcome to my blog class.

Housekeeping first. Make sure you follow this blog page. This will help you recall it quickly or you can save it as your 'favourites'.
Roll call-(leave a comment) just to prove you've seen the images.
Sana, Ham, Dylan, Bek, Dan, Jamie, Dean, Mat, Hayden, Reid, Vincent (I need to speak with you in class) Helen, Nina, Hannah, Tayla, Dana, Jessica, Brigette, Trevor, Joshua.

You done very well at each stations everyone. Your paintings and drawings were very impressive. I love them all, so much character in each of them. Yes you did very well considering how short the time you were allowed. The noise was probably a bit much. And for my part, it was my fault there was no paper or brushes. I'll try to be more organised next lesson.
The images are not uploaded yet it takes so much time.

Keep checking this space.

About Creativity & Aesthetic theories

About creativity
The points below seem to define what art means or the definitions of aesthetic, leaning more towards art philosophy than about creativity to a person with an artist’s background like me. You may ask what creativity is, for me the motivations of creativity personally:
• I feel compelled psychologically and that not making art is detrimental to my sanity.
• It is what I do best so, it is both a pleasure for my ego (Freud) and it is also the highest on my ‘Maslow’s hierarchy of needs’.
• It is essential to how I operate and how I engage with other people around me.
• It is God’s mandate that I share my talents according to his will.
• I have used it as the force of good in educating as means for empowerment, identity formation and self-realization of young minds.
The above points are relevant to me not only as an aspect of my creativity but it also indicate some definitons of art is defined by non-artists and scientists like anthropologists as the measure by which a civilization's mettle is tested in time, including the dot points below.
-for social scientists art legitimises an institution's and society’s nomothetic & idiographic frameworks ifor vocational purposes (Article: Culture and assessment: nomothetic and idiographic considerations from:Career Development Quarterly Article date:June 1, 2009 Author: Diemer, Matthew A.; Gore, Paul A., Jr..
-functional, pleases the eye and stimulates the mind all at once.
-expression (nothing to do with the Expressionist art movement).
For philosophers and writers art and the creative prime directive is about:
-representation 'memesis'-imitation (Plato).
-significant form, (Bell & Fry).
-frozen emotion (Tolstoy).
-pleases the divine nature of man, elevation of crude Phillistines into men of culture and refinement (Hegel)
-an organic whole and made from complex (early Weisz) disparate parts that would not have made sense if taken apart.
-too complicated to define (late Weisz).
-exercises the free play of the imagination (Kant).
-pure intuition (Croce)
-polemical in intention (Wittgenstein)
-intertextuality (Foucault)
-satisfies the imaginative need for social harmony (Parker) and 'group think' (Orwell).

Although there are great deal more definitions of art and creativity that I can compile here (there would be no point for a exhaustive list as this is not the right context for it) and it would be beyond me to list them of all if I was so inclined.
For me and creativity, art & aesthetics are inextricably linked save for purist's opinion that only the high art can only be considered worthy of discussion. For that matter I would leave to academics alone.

More paintings for nostalgia

These paintings are located in Alicia Bohol hung in my Parental home lounge room. Its not for sale at any price.