Junior Cert Drawing Exam: Object List 2016

You must choose one object from the list below to draw in your drawing exam on Friday 6th May 2016.

Category A - Natural Forms

seedheads
a chop or chicken drumstick
what I found under a stone
pasta shapes
bulb/s for the garden
a half pealed banana
lunch
eggs/cooked/broken
fresh fruit
a slice of cake
fallen leaves or petals

Category B - Man made Forms


nail varnish bottles
padlock and keys
bike/motorbike parts
cutlery
worn shoes/runners
fancy dress hat or mask
house cleaning implements
lino cutting or batik tools
puncture mending kit
body ornaments
my tootbrush and or toothpaste

3rd year Easter homework

Project work due Monday 4^th April / Classwork for this Friday and Monday

1)    Step by step shape and line drawings showing the stages of your 3D piece construction.

·        Roughly 4- 6 shape and line drawings depending on what exactly you made / labelling using what.

·        Think back over your process – what did you do first, second, third etc?

·        Small clear drawings, no colour needed.

·        On blank paper not lined paper.

·        They will be going on your 3D prep sheet.

2)    Lino Print Prep Drawings

·        When we return after the Easter break we will only have 4 WEEKS to do all work for your lino and get the project finished. You must return with 6 prep drawings done so we can move straight into lino composition work. Aim for the following:

·        Choose a drawing from earlier in your project as your starting point that you have not yet used (it can count as one of your 6 to hand up) OR choose a completely new starting point developed on from your 3D piece.

·        Do more visual research if you need to – save any images you find / use

·        Try to complete the following using a variety of media

o   2 observational drawings

o   2 imaginary drawings

o   2 from visual images

3rd year Mock Drawing Exam

Below are some examples of excellent drawing, well done girls, Good Luck with the rest of your mocks.

Waiting for the Kiln

Here are some of our potter birds, glazed and patiently waiting to be fired!

3rd yr Christmas Test: List of objects

Category A

 Natural Forms

 Choose one from the list below

Apples in an open paper bag
 Broken egg shells in open egg carton
Carrot with green foliage attached
 Driftwood Flowers and shrubs
Grapes on the vine Mushrooms, some sliced and quartered
 Orange half peeled Selection of grapes and berries
 Sticks and stones
Sods of turf

Make a drawing of the complete form and a drawing of a part of it which appeals to you. This part may be enlarged in order to emphasize all its features.

 OR

 Category B

Man Made Forms
 Choose one from the list below
 Clothes brush
Bunch of keys
Basket of clothes pegs
 Hurling helmet
Machine part
Musical instrument
Nuts and bolts
Open packet of biscuits
 Pens and pencils in coffee mug
Stack of magazines
 Toolbox showing tools

Make a drawing of the complete form and a drawing of a part of it which appeals to you. This part may be enlarged in order to emphasize all its features.

Spooky self portraits!

Ms Costello made a spooky self portrait mask in white chalk on black paper.

2 nd yr students will continue with this project after midterm.

Junior Certificate 2014 3D

3rd year Still Life Drawing

Colour

1st year Glazed Pottery Birds

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

2nd year Relief Tiles

Pottery bird glazed

This is my sample glazed pottery bird, before it was fired, I used as my visual aid.

1st year paper tea cups

1st year painting

1st year clay faces

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