The Grade 12 Media Art students have received their iPhone skins! The original skins they designed were generously printed and donated by Gelaskins in Toronto. We want to express a big thank you to them and their generosity. Many of the students now have great Christmas presents to hand out to friends and family.
Nicholas Walsh
Gina Gavel
Shawna Swayze
Melissa Reid
Emma-Lee Goulding
Rachel Hall
Holly Hamilton
Shannon McCarthy
Sydney Pivato
Alex Yuen
Ashlee Earle
The Grade 10 and 11 Visual Arts classes get a little messy with their new pieces. The class was to make a sculpture from clay. Many of the students decided to create a very natural sculpture, like a branch, a clam, or a crab. Other students decided to make sculptures that made use of positive and negative space, leaving holes in their sculptures. Some, have even decided to make their sculpture practical by creating a ring holder, a key rack and even a candle holder. It is great to see the amount of diversity in the work and the amount of detail that goes into the pieces.
Ellen Fitzhugh GR 11
Ellen Fitzhugh GR 11
Mikayla Rostek GR 11
Georgia Whitbread GR 10
Kianne Bearman GR10
Joslyn Phillips GR10
Liam Hamilton GR11
Maria Mattice GR10
Richard Neves GR11
Mairead Corrigan GR10
Molly Macpherson Gr11
Hannah Greenwood GR11
The Grade 12 Media Artists are getting a chance to apply their art skills in a new way this year. Thanks to the Toronto based company “Gelaskins” that is run by Kingston natives, the students will be receiving complimentary iPhone skins showcasing their own artwork. This gives the students a chance to apply their Photoshop and Illustrator designing skills in a real-life context and get the chance to create something that is really relevant to teenagers. The artists are putting their whole effort and creativity into this project and are creating not only digital art, but also mixed media art using additional mediums such as water colours. The designs will be completed by Monday, November the 18th and the skins should be arriving in December.
Shannon McCarthy uses Illustrator to create her design. Geometric patterns, like the one Shannon is making are very trendy designs and many are top sellers on the Gelaskins website.
Andrea Amos draws up the final plans for her phone skin.
Jonathan Melo creates his piece using a Wacom tablet. Drawing tablets enhance the precision of an artist’s digital drawing, mimicking the motions of real-life drawing.
Molly Goodfellow uses both her visual and digital art skills to create a piece that is truly unique.
Many students have been experimenting with mixed media pieces. This water colour painting will be enhanced in Photoshop.
Nicholas Walsh uses the Wacom Tablet to paint an image with precision and efficiency.
Jordan McEvoy lays out his design of the local RND band, ‘The Stone Throws’ logo on the Gelaskins website.
We look forward to sharing the final designs once they’re completed next week. Keep an eye out for that!
Continuing with their photography experimentation, the Grade 12 Media Arts classes have been learning how to transfer their photos to unique surfaces using a gel transfer technique. Gel transferring involves spreading a layer of gel medium onto an object (a piece of wood, metal, a table, chair etc…) and then pressing an image or photo into the gel. Water is then used to dissolve the paper away but the ink from the image remains absorbed into the clear gel on the printing surface. This technique often creates a vintage-like effect. A lot of the students have chosen something personal to them to print on like a chest or a record player. Other students have made something practical like, a sign that will hang outside of their art room. There are so many possibilities with gel transfer techniques and it’s great to see the diversity in the final products.
Stu Mulholland
Gel Transfer on Wood
Ciahna Mazzeo
Gel Transfer on Vintage Record Player
Emma-Lee Goulding
Gel Transfer on Wood
Shannon McCarthy
Gel Transfer on Hockey Stick
Matthew Bento
Gel Transfer on Wood
Melissa Reid
Gel Transfer on Wood
Natalie Schutt
Gel Transfer on Wood
The grade 12 classes have been experimenting with photography and all of the different effects you can create with a camera. The photos below have all been taken by students using a Canon EOS Rebel T3i. The student’s individual styles continue to develop as the semester progresses and it is interesting to see the variety in subject matter they selected.
Jordan McEvoy
Ciahna Mazzeo
Sarah Burtch
Nicholas Walsh
Selena Benevides
Emma-Lee Goulding
Sydney Pivato
Holly Hamilton
Experimental Light Effects
Nicholas Walsh
Melissa Reid
Alex Yuen
Holly Hamilton
Experimental Light Effects
Molly Goodfellow
Grade 11 Students used pen on watercolour paper to create these beautiful images using detailed linework. Watercolour crayons were then used to add colour and washes to the work. The results are astounding. Many of these pieces are off to the Hotel Dieu Student Art Gallery!
Ollie Parkins
Monique Bertolino
Mikayla Rostek
Hannah Greenwood
Catherine Boucher
Gabby Garofalo
Alice Longtin
Victoria Dorego
Nature is inspiring the next generation of panthers at RND. The grade 9 students in Mrs. Latour’s Grade 9 art class enjoyed the last of the warm weather. They were instructed to find a piece of nature that inspired them and sketch it. The class worked diligently out in the sunshine and created some amazing drawings.
Krista Walsh finds inspiration in nature
Colin Clark displays his drawings
Peter Medeiros and Lucas Garofalo enjoy the sunshine
Haliea Hughson-Landon and Abbey Spence work hard at their sketches
This gallery contains 5 photos.
The Creative Arts for Enjoyment and Expression class is off to a colourful start! Already, the group has created several different pieces, including button art and tie-dye shirts. A glimpse of their vivid artwork is posted below.
The Grade 12 Media arts class has just finished their Introductory Photoshop Assignment. They were to create a piece that expressed themselves in any way they wished. As you can see, all the students have a very different style from one another and it is looking to be a very promising semester.
Sydney Pivato
400×259
Gif
Gina Gavel
17 x 11 inches
Ashlee Earle
11×17 Inches
Molly Goodfellow
11×17 Inches
Emma-Lee Goulding
17×11 Inches
Selena Benevides
11×17 Inches
Ciahna Mazzeo
11×17 Inches
Stu Mulholland
11×17 Inches
Melissa Reid
17×11 Inches
Nicholas Walsh
11×17 Inches
Alex Yuen
11×17 Inches
The senior students ended the year by creating some incredible experimental art pieces. Students created a huge variety of pieces including Stop Motion Animations, GIF animations, Hybrid Paintings and Collages, Interactive Video Installations, Choose Your Own Adventure Graphic Novels, Children’s Stories and digital paintings. Below is a sample of some of the great projects they produced.
Emma Goldstein explored Macro Photography and displayed her photos in a beautiful glass house with the orchid she chose as her subject as the centerpiece.
Sarah Sanders created a series of collages that combined digital and tactile elements. The series of three pieces were created as a tribute to a very important family member and showcased all of the life lessons Sarah had learned from him.
Rhys Davies created a GIF Animation that plays off of the Photoshop toolbar and artboard.
Ahmed Omer combined video and digital painting to create this animated GIF.
Lexa Poulos designed an interactive book where the viewer has the opportunity to choose the outcome of the story. The story had an environmental theme and all of the images and characters were designed by Lexa using Adobe Illustrator. Below is a sample of two pages from the book.
Front Cover
Back Cover
Alecz de Castro created a story with an environmental theme as well and used photography as well as digital drawing and painting to create the graphics for her children’s book. Below is a sample of some of the character’s in her story that go on a journey to try and be recycled.
RND Artists 