TY Fabric printing

The TY class have been designing stencils based on the theme DREAMS. They turned these designs into a stencil and printed onto cloth bags. Well done girls they look great!

Team Dee Hearts

Many of the staff and students are making crochet hearts for team dee. If you would like to make some the pattern is below. Please drop any finished hearts into the office or give them to Mrs Arthurs.

Team Dee Hearts

Materials needed:

Red DK yarn

White DK yarn

4mm crochet hook

Darning needle

Red

1.    Ch 2

2.    Ch 1, dc 2 in last st from hook. Turn. (2 st)

3.    Ch 1, dc in same stitch, dc 2 in last st. Turn. (4 st)

4.    Ch 1, dc in same stich, dc 1 till last st, dc 2 in last st. Turn. (6st)

5.    Ch 1, dc in nxt and following 4 stiches. Turn. (6st)

6.    Ch 1, dc in same stich, dc 1 till last st, dc 2 in last st. Turn. (8st)

7.    Ch 1, dc in nxt and following 6 stiches. Turn. (8st)

8.    Tr 5 in 2nd st from hook, sk 1, dc 1, sk1, tr 5 in same st, sk 1, sl st in last.

9.    Dc 6 down left of heart, dc 2 in bottom st, dc 6 up right of heart, fasten to top of 1^st tr from last row.

10. Weave in threads.

White

1.    Join White, ch 3, sl st in next dc, ch 4.

2.    Continue round to dc between shells at top of heart.

3.    Sl st at either side of dc, continue as line 1.

4.    Fasten off with sl st and weave in ends.

Calligraphy Video

http://www.booooooom.com/2015/09/11/an-interview-with-master-calligrapher-seb-lester/

1st year Glazed Pottery Birds

Here are some of of the 1st yr pottery birds after the glaze firing.

2nd year Relief Tiles

1st year paper tea cups

Pottery

2nd year Pottery

1st year clay faces

After studying the proportions of the human face the 1st year made relief faces.

5th year Coiled Pots

2nd year Masks: Bad Guys

5th year Knitting

5th year general studies class have been knitting snoods. A cross between a scarf and a hood! Here are two finished samples. Great work girls.

Newgrange Inspired Lino Prints

5th & 6th year students designed, carved and printed lino blocks based upon the carvings at Newgrange and Knowth.

Meet the Craftsperson



Mosaic workshop

On Thursday 24th November the 5th and 6th year students were giving the opertunity to go to two workshops with professional craftspeople.

The first craftperson was a ceramics and mosaic artists, Orla Kaminska, who creates artwork for public spaces and peoples homes. Her website ia http://www.orlakaminska.com/ She showed us examples of her finished work and where she got her inspiration from. This was very interesting as we could see where her ideas came from and how she turned them into mosaics. She explained the different types of mosaics, and even had small example for us to pass around.
We then go the opertunity to make our own mosaic , helped along by our artist obviously! Everyone enjoyed working on the project together.

Silk fibre paper making workshop

After the mosaic workshop we went to anoth one called silk fibre paper meking. None of us know what this would be about. We thought paper making might be a bit boring but it deffinately wasnt.  Our artist showed us examples of cvery colourful fabric and paper all made from waste silk fibres. She explained how silk is made by silk worms and even showed us a silk in a cocoon!

2nd Year Batik

Second year students have been designing and creating colourful Batiks using tropical fish and butterflies as their inspiration.