Year 10 Deadline

Year 12 Deadline

Year 13 Deadline

Paper snowflakes for Youth Club

Check out this unusual snowflake cut by Alex Cobban in year 9....

Year 9 Homework of the month!

Check out this fabulous artist study by Rachel Hardy in 9S....

Festive Card Competition (this is a House competition!)

All entries to Mr Pennock....win points for your house! Judging criteria =

• inventive use of colour
• ambitious use of materials
• time, care and effort
• thoughtful festive message
• presentation

Year 11 Coursework Deadline

Year 7 Homework

Produce a mini booklet on the works of Kandinsky. The booklet is A4 when opened out and must contain at least 4 of your interpretations of his works. Use the research information you have collected this term to get you started.

Origami Competition Winner

Congratulations to Coral Miyan in year 8 who has won the Origami Competition with her colourful origami windmill!

National Day Competition DBS

Congratulations to the six winners for the DBS National Day competition (secondary):

Aliyah Marshall, Sam Williams, Stefan Vanderwalt, Charlotte Taylor, Rachel Hardy and Jake bird.

Photo-digital Art by Lauren, Year 13

MCC National Day Competition

Congratulations to all of the year 8 and 9 students who contributed to the Mirdif City Centre Recycled sculpture competition....we brought home 2 trophies!

Year 13 Light Painting

Photo by Kayleigh.

Year 12 Observational Drawing

Make sure you have a minimum of 4 really good observational drawings in your sketchbooks.

 Drawing by Danny Mackie.

Year 11 A01 Presentation Sheets

Make sure you get your A01 presentation sheets complete for sunday's lesson. These should include:

• Artist Copies
• Information on Artists
• Your written analysis

Artist copies by Tara, Molly & Jade.

The Inside Out Project

Go to

http://www.insideoutproject.net/user/register

                                                                  .....to get involved!

 

{ Art Abu Dhabi

Our sixth formers get involved with the Inside Out Project Photobooth at Art Abu Dhabi 2011

Whole School National Day Competition

The school is going crazy with the celebrations of National Day. We will be holding a Drawing and Art National Day Competition for all students at DBS from Y1 to Y13.

The theme is to capture anything about the UAE; landmarks, the 7 Emirates, culture, traditions etc.

You will need to do this at home on an A4 size paper – remember to label it with your full name and class.

All art work should be returned to school bythe morning of Thursday 24th and there will be two prizes for the winners; one from Secondary and one from Primary.

The best 10 to 12 artworks will be displayed and the prize draw will happen on National Day.

We're going on the Art Bus!

The Arty sixth formers are going on the Art Bus to Abu Dhabi Art this Saturday 19th November. Photos and info on our trip to follow soon.....

Painting Workshops with Artist Dennis Hennessy November 2011

In 2005 Dennis Hennessy moved to Dubai, with his wife Karen and daughter Grace, from Birmingham in the West Midlands of England where he trained and practice as a fine Artist.
Dennis has exhibited his work widely in both solo and group shows and has lectured at some of Britain's finest Universities. He is now making art in the U.A.E. and has exhibited in Dubai and Abu Dhabi
As a parent Dennis started helping out with the DBS performances, painting 4 x 9 metre back drops and making props. He has painted over 20 on the same piece of canvas. Each painting would often be completed in 4 to 5 hours, both parents and students enjoyed seeing an artist at work and soon Dennis was asked if he would come in and talk about his work with the students.
This term Dennis is the Artist in residence at DBS and has been working with the students in the ECA Art Team, the results of which will soon be appearing through out the school.
Dennis has just completed his first workshop on painting and architectural landscape of Dubai introducing the students to his abstract paintings and his earlier work with the Birmingham landscape of 1990’s.
The students enjoyed using water colour techniques and painting without using brushes. It was great fun and some fantastic work was produced.

Year 10 Half Term Targets

This half term you should aim to get your A3 tonal pencil study completed. See example below by Nia.

Year 13 Half Term Targets

Year 12 Half Term Targets

Year 11 Half term Targets

PFA poster design competition

The PFA are having a competition for all secondary students to create a poster for the

Festive Frolics event (24^th November, 1.30-4.30pm).

The prize is a 100dhs Virgin voucher for the best poster.

All entries should be handed in to reception.

Year 11 Homework *4*

Make a minimum of 4 really good observational drawings working either from real life or from your own photographs. Use a full range of tone and look closely at detail when drawing. See examples.

Student example from The Sultan School, Muscat, Oman. 

The Abu Dhabi Art Fair 2011

the Abu Dhabi Art Fair 2011

Year 13 Homework *4*

Write about your first Artist of choice for the Personal Study in draft. Include example images of both the Artist's work as well as your own studies and experiments. Label these with ARTIST / TITLE / DATE/ MEDIUM and use the analysis sheets and photocopied example provided to help you. Approximately 500 words.

'Black Kites' by Gabriel Orozco, 1997, Human Skull and Graphite. 

Year 7 Hw *3*

Design your own abstract composition in response to a song of your choice. Complete in colour in your A3 sketchbook.

Student example

Expressive Arts Logo Design Competition

STOP PRESS
COMPETITION
DESIGN A LOGO FOR EXPRESSIVE ARTS

As from today (12th Oct) the Expressive Arts Faculty are asking you to design a simple Logo for the Faculty. This will be used on events, emails, aprons, T shirts etc.

The Prize is a Virgin Records voucher for 100dhs.
All entries are to be given to an Expressive Arts teacher.
Closing Date 1st November.

Listen to and watch this stunning video by Olafur Arnalds

Plenty of colour LINK

http://plentyofcolour.com/category/art/

National Day Competition at MCC

Do you want to get involved in the

National Day Competition?

If so…..build your own UAE Landmark out of old cardboard (cereal boxes etc) and bring it to the Art Room ....so that we can then make something that looks a bit like this….

image sourced from Pinterest

 

Origami Competition October 2011

Year 10 Observational Studies of Natural Forms

Drawings by Beth Hardwick & Nia Ariyanti-Walker

Year 13 Homework *3*

Write your introduction for the Personal Study in draft, include example images and use the starters and example provided to help you. Minimum 500 words.

Artist example Tom French

Year 12 Homework *3*

Take your own photographs for the theme of ‘Identity. Edit these using layers, tools and filters (Picasa is a great tool on the net that you can download for free). Make a note of the editing process you go through for each. Bring this work on USB and printed in draft to sunday’s lesson for review.

Photo edit by Daniel Mackie Year 12.

Year 11 Homework *3*

Take your own photographs for the theme of ‘Metamorphosis’. Edit these using layers, tools and filters (Picasa is a great tool on the net that you can download for free). Make a note of the editing process you go through for each. Bring this work on USB and printed in draft to sunday’s lesson for review

Year 10 Homework *3*

Complete your 2nd presentation sheet on A2 paper. Fill it with your own photographs of Natural Forms. Annotate each image and think carefully about photographs which you select to present LARGE and how you layout the smaller images.