New batch of cyanotypes

Our new year 12 group has started the year with great energy and enthusiasm. We changed our theme and the syllabus is new but the old cyanotyes are always pertinent and, well, just great!

Maria Kiseleva

Ana-Maria Mikhail

Punching clay

Plaster of Paris, a lump of fresh clay and a good "macro" lens:

These experiments were made by Mariana, one of our year 12 students.

Triangles

On my previous post I showed you this sculpture by Tomás Candeias:

 

 

I mentioned how plaster was used to make it but now I wish to talk about the form. Tomás was trying to reduce all his work into basic, geometric forms. He explored the triangle in a variety of ways. See below:

Linoleum print - Tomás Candeias, y13

Linoleum print - Tomás Candeias, y13

Oil painting -Tomás Candeias, y13

Digital image - 4 colour channels - Tomás Candeias, y13

Silkscreen - Tomás Candeias, y13

 



Photography by Tom Vilar

Tom is one of our year 12 students. He really enjoys photography and is constantly producing images in his own time, totally independently.  Tom's photographs are worth seeing. I am pleased to post some and will soon also show you his beautiful analysis on some of the images below:

Rob Kesseler

My dear friend Rob Kesseler, author of the beautiful images that I present here , has inspired several of our students in the past couple of years.

hackelia

scutellaria-galericulata

  
hippocrepis-unisiliquosa

 Recently, one of our  year 11 students looked at Rob's work and felt inspired to look through her small microscope at home. With some help, she was able to capture some great images from slides of a stem. She worked on the images using photoshop to improve colour and contrast and then painted them on a cast of a cut section of a tree trunk.

 

 

When I sent these to Rob he was impressed and said:

 

"It makes me really proud to see things like this, to inspire young people is a privilege that means more than hanging on the walls of the Saatchi Gallery. "



Cyanotypes

Here are some of the best cyanotyes made this year....

Diogo Braga -y12

Ana Paganini - y13



LuisaVasconcelos - y13

Barbara Collard - y13

Manon Compare - y13

 

Ana Delgado - y13



Diana Vasconcellos

Experimental photography in IB

At the beginning of year 12 we explore experimental photography. Students use our tiny darkroom to produce pin-hole photographs and cyanotypes. They learn how to develop and print their photos. Combined with traditional techniques, students are encouraged to mix new technology with old techniques. In result, we have had a great combination of skills involved in making some of the pieces I present below:


Pinhole photography page by Sara Roberts

Photoshop manipulation of pinhole by Sara Roberts

Cyanotype by Paola Kossakowska - This is a digital image which was transfered onto acetate and then used to sensitize a cyanotype.