- Eleanor 8C and Alesha 11A, 2024 – Alesha created this beautiful peach pattern through screen printing onto textiles. Her theme was based on transport, in particular, bus routes personal to her and her life. Eleanor’s collage uses bold landscapes and botanicals to illustrate powerful feminist messages.
- Caroline 9D, 2024 – Thoughtless “A drawing inspired by The Arranged Marriage, a girl modernised but a sadness carried through centuries.” Caroline’s large scale portrait shows so much emotion and feeling. She’s used charcoal, chalk and an eraser to create an intensely tonal and deep piece of artwork.
- Taisiia year 11, 2023 – Taisiia was inspired by architecture and fashion design in this beautiful oil painting. She’s used highly advanced oil painting techniques, which you can see in the range of brush strokes and blending. The complimentary colours she’s chosen bring harmony to her artwork.
- Scarlett 9C, 2024 – Scarlet used acrylic paint to create this beautiful minimalist painting of her friend. This piece is simple yet powerful.
- Rhianna year 11, 2023 – Rhianna did this etching of her mother. She’s captured her mum’s pose and expression perfectly with the use of intricate and detailed line work. Etching is an intaglio technique which refers to any printmaking process which involves making incisions or indents in a plate, in this case an acrylic sheet, so when the ink is applied and then wiped off, ink remains caught in the incisions and creates the image. The plate is then squeezed through a printing press onto paper to create as many versions of the artwork as needed. It’s a very in depth and involved traditional process.
- Taisiia year 11, 2023 – Taisiia’s self portrait uses soft pastels in a range of abstract and unusual colour combinations. She looks like she’s deep in thought, and draws the viewer in to want to know more.
- Ibrahim 9E, 2024 – Ibrahim has used pencil to create this tonal architectural piece. He’s drawn his subject matter from an interesting perspective (from the ground, looking up to the sky.)
- Rico 9D, 2024 – Rico has been inspired by Anime to create his energetic comic strip style artwork.
- Evie and Anthony 10C, 2024 – These talented students have used soft pencils to draw themselves. The likeness is incredible! They’ve done this with the aid of a traditional method – this grid method is a technique used in art that involves dividing an image into a series of smaller, more manageable sections using a grid. A grid is typically drawn over the reference image, and then students use the grid to draw the image on their own piece of paper carefully replicating each section of the grid.
- Simona 10E, 2024 – drew a pencil portrait of herself on paper. Her distinctive use of pencil strokes and mark-making helps to depict her characteristics beautifully.
- Abdullah 11B, 2024 – Abdullah is a very talented budding portraiture photographer. He started this project by photographing fellow students and staff members at AMSI. In this particular piece Abdullah has used the faces of two students, Mr McLoughlin and Jasmin (our in-house artist from Cubit Arts.) He then edited his photographs using a digital app called Photoshop and created new, merged portraits – incorporating young and old, male and female, and many different cultures and races. Abdullah wanted to illustrate the theme of ‘Narratives’ through the journey of life (in humans and plants.) In this screen printed piece, Abdullah has used one screen to print a solid face- shaped background in yellow ink. He’s then layered a separate screen over the top of his merged faces in purple ink. Not only has he screen printed this portrait, he’s also used a stencil cut to place in between his layers of printing to form the flower shape. Screenprinting is a process where ink is forced through a mesh screen onto a surface. Making certain areas of the screen impervious to printing ink creates a stencil, which blocks the printing ink from passing through the screen. The ink that passes through forms the printed image.
- Lorena 10C, 2024 – Lorena used pencil and paper to create a hyper-realistic self-portrait. In particular, Lorena excels at catching detail and employs precise pencil strokes to produce lifelike drawings.
- Abdullah 10C, 2024 – This screen print pairs nicely with his other print. Abdullah has recreated the same image with the same screens, just using a different sequence of colours in the layering process.
- Nematullah, Mohammed, Abid, Amir and Sahil Year 11, 2023 – A group of year 11 EAL students produced this set of lino reduction prints as part of their exam. The students concentrated on drawing craft and building tools based on the topic “locked.” They then went further by utilising a variety of marks to produce intriguing prints. Lino Printing is a form of block printing that involves carving a pattern or design into a linoleum, rubber or vinyl surface that can then be printed from.
- Liesheth 11A, 2024 – Liesheth has made this beautiful and delicate looking piece of art through layers of mono printing. A monoprint is a form of printmaking in which an image is made from a smooth surface or ‘plate’ coated in printing ink such as a sheet of glass or metal.
- Mouhyi 11A, 2024 – This still life of skulls was created by Mouhyi using lino print technique on a neon background. Mouhyi has contrasted the bold black lino print against the pink beautifully.
- Levi 11A, 2024 – Levi’s mono print of a match has been made by layering different inks over each other and tracing on top of his original drawing – therefore pushing the ink onto the paper underneath.
- Thallys 11A, 2024 – Etching is an intaglio technique which refers to any printmaking process which involves making incisions or indents in a plate, in this case an acrylic sheet, so when the ink is applied and then wiped off, ink remains caught in the incisions and creates the image. Thallys has been inspired by Asian artwork and landscapes.
- Evangelos 11A, 2024 – Evangelos used collage and a tonal drawing of himself to produce this intriguing mixed-media poster. Using images from a phone, Evangelos made shapes that looked like lightning bolts from his palms.
- Joe 11A, 2024 – Joe made this vibrant and engaging print collage by first creating mono prints of sketches of flowers and plants, which he then collaged together.
- Thallys 11A, 2024 – This artwork is a colour version of Thallys’s etching above. He’s used watercolour, ink, pen and gold leaf to bring this drawing to life. It’s beautiful to see the contrast and difference a change in medium can bring.
- Emelia year 11, 2023 – Emelia has used clay to make these intricate characters and ram’s skull. For her final GCSE project she actually placed the characters inside the ram skull. You could see them by peering into the rams eye.
- Aleema year 11, 2023 – Aleema made some beautiful skeletal studies.
- Rhiannah year 11, 2023 – Rhiannah used newspaper to sculpt this intricate rib cage.
- Matthew year 11, 2023 – Matthew’s chosen medium was acrylic paint – as well as using brushes, he actually used his fingers to manipulate the paint.
- Atif year 11, 2023 – In this mixed media piece, Atif looked at the contrast been life and death in nature – The skull representing death and the flowers, life.