In November ’06 as part of St Joseph's Primary Schools Arts week St Wilfrid’s Art Department had the pleasure of working with 30 year 5 pupils for a day. Using Celtic Art as a starting point we ran two workshops – Mr Walsh and 6th form Art students provided a challenging experience manipulating day and providing the pupils with new skills and techniques. Mrs Beach and 6th form Art Students introduced Batik and textiles – a new experience to all of the pupils and something they all found very rewarding. Ideas were based on Celtic Animal Imagery and the pupils used hot wax to make a resist pattern then brushed on strong colour to make excellent individual vibrant designs.
Pupils from St Joseph's Primary School Pontefract working with Mrs Beach and 6th form Art Students. Using Celtic designs as their starting point the year 5 pupils used the strong pattern and images as inspiration to produce their own Batik Artwork.
Pupils from St Joseph's Primary School Pontefract working in collaboration with Mr Walsh and 6th form Art Students. The morning was spent on a collaborative project where pupils produced individual tiles to make a large FRIEZE. The afternoon was used to produce their own Gargoyle heads to ward off evil spirits. It worked – Mr Horodczuk was nowhere to be seen.
Pupils from St Joseph's Primary School Pontefract working with Mrs Beach and 6th form Art Students. Using Celtic designs as their starting point the year 5 pupils used the strong pattern and images as inspiration to produce their own Batik Artwork.
Pupils from St Joseph's Primary School Pontefract working in collaboration with Mr Walsh and 6th form Art Students. The morning was spent on a collaborative project where pupils produced individual tiles to make a large FRIEZE. The afternoon was used to produce their own Gargoyle heads to ward off evil spirits. It worked – Mr Horodczuk was nowhere to be seen.
Paul Horodczuk Nov 2006
