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Year 7 Faculty Showcase: Animal Magic

February 15, 2019February 15, 2019 St Laurence School Art and DesignLeave a comment

Year 7 students have shown creativity and imagination this term by designing animal hybrids, printing their own bug designs, and making insects from clay! Take a look at their wonderful outcomes and sketchbooks here:

Year 12 book cover designs

January 11, 2019January 11, 2019 St Laurence School Art and DesignLeave a comment

Year 12 Graphics students were tasked with a brief from the English department to re-design covers of some well-known books. Here’s what they came up with.

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8LG4 clay leaves

December 13, 2018 St Laurence SchoolLeave a comment

8LG4 have created these beautiful clay leaves based on their experiences in the Lake District earlier this term. Students carved the leaves in clay and then painted them with acrylic paint; we think they look beautiful!

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Year 12 Art: Identity

November 20, 2018 St Laurence SchoolLeave a comment

Take a look through the wonderful sketchbooks of our Year 12 art students. Since September, they have been working on the theme of ‘identity’ – focusing on people and place as sub-topics.

Year 9 tonal drawings

October 1, 2018October 1, 2018 St Laurence SchoolLeave a comment

Students in 9LG1 have made a great start to the new school year with these excellent tonal drawings.

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Art Show 2018

July 2, 2018 St Laurence SchoolLeave a comment

Please come and join us for a fabulous evening of art, graphics, and photography on Thursday the 19th of July, from 4.30pm to 7.30pm.

GCSE and A Level work will be on show, as well as the Year 8 Lakes project.

We hope to see you then!

Year 7: ‘Day of the Dead’

June 11, 2018June 11, 2018 St Laurence SchoolLeave a comment

Year 7 have been working on a new project based on the Mexican festival, Día de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead). The multi-day celebration focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember loved ones who have died, and help support their spiritual journey.

Take a look at some of the wonderful sketchbooks from 7X2 below.

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Year 9: Abstract Expressionism.

May 18, 2018 St Laurence SchoolLeave a comment

9LG5 have created these wonderful pieces of work using lino-printing and collage as a response to their latest topic which has explored the artistic movement, Abstract Expressionism.

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Year 12 Photography: Identity

May 8, 2018May 8, 2018 St Laurence SchoolLeave a comment

Here’s some creative work from Year 12 photography students based on the theme of Identity. Students have used various photographic techniques (analogue and digital) alongside craft, art and design practices to produce these wonderful sketchbooks.

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