Art Exhibition

Please join us tonight at the our Art Department fundraiser at the Southdowns Spur from 18h00-20h00.

Congratulations to Jemma Hendricks for winning the poster competition for our 2016 Art Exhibition.
Thank you to all those who entered your designs were all excellent!

Competition number 18

Competition number 18

This is a competition with a difference.

Design an advertisement for the Art Exhibition

Your poster must be on A3. It must be bright and bold and include:

Venue: The Arena
Date: 11-14 October
What: SDC PrepArt Exhibition
Prize giving and official opening; Tuesday 11 October 18h30

Spring day

Art pupils busy working on their spring day creations

 

Competition number 17

Question: Which famous artist inspired the art that the grade 6's have just done?

The answer of course was Matisse.
Competition number 16:
Question: What do we call the above art form?
The answer was a Mola
Well done to Lesedi and Jemma  

Matisse Exhibition

Welcome back after the midterm break. Hope you have all had a good rest.

Breaking news:

Joburg to host Matisse exhibition in July
 
Read the article now. http://www.bdlive.co.za/life/entertainment/2016/01/25/joburg-to-host-matisse-exhibition-in-july

Weekly competition:
Which famous artist is having an exhibition at the Standard bank gallery?

Competition number 15

Question: Which artist inspired this artwork of the week by Neena Bester in grade 6?
Answer: Claes Oldenberg
Winners:Tyler and Yoli

Look what Mrs A has been doing with the Wednesday Art group:

Art work of the week

Congratulations to Reneilwe in grade 3 for her stunning Egyptian picture!

                           

Competition 13 Winners

And the winners are....Tristan, Kaylyn, Angelica and Tyler. early bird catches the worm!

Competition number 13

Lucky 13?

Question; What do we call shapes that fit perfectly into each other?

Winners of the Weekly Competition number 12

This week's competition proved to be quite challenging.Well done to Gabriel, Caleb and Onthi.
The correct answer is One point perspective.

Design an Ad and Weekly Competition number 12

Congratulations to Caitlin Palmer who came third with her design for Irene Mall. The overall winner was from Wierda Park Laerskool with his design for Hokaai Butchery. This will be included in a supplement in the Rekord this week or next. Well done to all our pupils who entered there were some stunning designs. Sadly Jack's Paint and Plumb it wood it pulled out of the competition at the last minute and there could be no winners.

 Weekly Competition:

Watch out for the competition going up tomorrow. The answer is in the art room and the grade 6's are busy studying his artist.

Winners

Congratulations to Tristan Elliot 5H and Jenna Frenzel 4T who won the "Guess who this grade 6 is"competition. I decided to give them each a Marvellous Creations chocolate as they both guessed 17 out of 18 right. The correct answers are on the notice board. Well done this was an epic competition!
Watch the notice board for our Artist of the week. This week it is Pablo Picasso. The idea is to develop the children's knowledge of Art History.

weekly competition number 10

Good morning all. Welcome back to an already chilly 2nd term.
We kicked of the term with a slightly more complicated competition. I put the top 18 Grade 6 Monochrome self portraits up on the printing room window. Congratulations to these grade 6's who have really done a great job! Pupils have to correctly identify each artist. First correctly completed list will win a slab of chocolate. I see children have teamed up and there is a buzz on the corridor. Game on!

Art work of the week

Check this beautiful self portrait painted in Monochromes by Prince Xaba in grade 6...well done!

Weekly Competition and Rekord Design an ad

Congratulations to Caitlin Crause who correctly answered this week's question.

Good luck to all our grade 5 and 6 pupils. The Rekord will be collecting the design -an- ad competition entry forms  this week. Well done to all of you for all your hard work. I am proud of each and every one of you! There are some really good designs from Southdowns College.

Weekly competition # 8

The grade 2's made Easter eggs using pastel colours.
The Question for this week was ;What are pastel colours?
Colours that are light rainbow colours.
Congratulations to Caitlin Crause who got the answer right.

Below: Kayleigh (Grade 2 ) with her cute bunny holding an Easter egg.
Bottom: Katlego (Grade 3) with her pop art picture which is our Art work of the week. Andy Warhol would be so proud!

Art work of the week/weekly competition

Congratulations to Roxcy for her beautiful "Crazy Cup"

Weekly Competition # 7: Congratulations to Angelica ,Lesedi and Caitlin for getting the correct answer. Andy Warhol painted the Campbell's can.                                                                          

Wekly competition#6

Congratulations to Cyan Fritz and Angelica Apostoloupolis for answering this weeks question: What do we call a painting that may include trees,mountains and sky?
Answer; landscape

Art work of the week: Well done to Alistair Hughes.

weekly competition #5

This week's competition:

Congratulations to Junior.  You are a star!

weekly competition # 4

Congratulations to Junior Nconyelwa in grade 2D.
He has correctly answered the question for this week and last!

Question : What is the name of this painting? The Scream

Just a reminder that the question will now go up on a Tuesday because of the midterm break.

Have a wonderful break everyone!

Art work of the week

The grade 5's have been drawing eyes . I am so impressed with some of the pictures. Congratulations to Jessica Hart. Your picture is our art work of the week for this week!

Competition # 3

The grades 2's made fish out of hearts for Valentines Day

Question : Who painted the Mona Lisa

Answer: Leonardo Da Vinci

Well done to our winners Ashley and Clara Marie

Grade 1s blowing bubbles

The grade 1 pupils painted a self portrait for their first art project in the Prep School.  We added some fun with sticking on ties, ribbons and hats, as well as blowing up a balloon.

Weekly competition #2

Art work of the week:

Well done to Clara in grade2 D

Art Club

Look what Mrs A's Art class is doing:

Competition # 1

Question: What do we call the object that we use to mix our paint on?
Answer: a palette
Winner: Congratulations to Keenan Clark

And so we are back....watch this space for the weekly competition, art work of the week and photos of our pupils being creative in the art room.