Senior School Visual Art students recently spent a half day working ‘plein air’ - on location - at stunning Cottesloe Beach. The pristine blue water and sun drenched beach provided a perfect backdrop to our intensive drawing workshop, providing much needed skills for the work that will follow.
Students reported enjoying the day enormously and gathered an array of useful reference material, including photographs of the scenes they were working from as well as collecting fascinating quirky objects to study back at school. We concluded the day on a high note with some intensive drawing sessions where students were able to explore the surrounding seascape from a whole new angle… literally working on the rocks!
The excursion and opportunity to spend the day drawing from life provided a rich aesthetic experience inspired by the long historical tradition of plein air landscape painting. I was very proud of the wonderful manner in which our students gleaned from their surroundings which will no doubt lead to some stunning lino and silkscreen prints for our next exhibition.
Ms O'Neill
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