Schools Scene

Artcymru is keen to promote and to display the wonderful work being carried out in schools and colleges in Wales. If you are a teacher, or student teacher, and would like to make use of Artcymru to display the work of your pupils to comply with the requirements of your course, or if you'd just like to show off the work produced by your pupils...send us some images and the text to accompany it and we'll be glad to include it on the site.

Thanks to Caroline Williams, a student teacher at Swansea Institute, for kick-starting this part of our site with the work she was able to encourage during her time at Godre'r-graig Primary School in the Swansea Valley.

ICT / ART PROJECT - Godre'r-graig C.P. School Spring 2007
The children were encourade to look at the work of artists in Wales (in response to Cwricwlwm Cymreig) and to explore the work through the various ICT paint packages available to them.

The children were from Year 6 (names and identities of the pupils have been excluded). The software used for this project was:

2Simple Paint

Microsoft paint

Textease Paint

Click on the above software titles to visit the websites and download copies for yourself.

The image used by the pupils to explore within the software paint packages was "Breconshire Farm" by Nigel Williams. This original painting was painted in oil paints using a palette knife in 2005.

A watercolour effect using 2Paint software package.
Produced using Textease Paint
Produced using 2Paint
Produced using Microsoft Paint
A lovely selection of images based upon the work of the artist, showing a range of basic techniques available. The children were encouraged to develop their own image of their area and to create a collage of those images with a digital camera. This was then developed with the paint package, as in the example below, and also developed into a line image for printing onto a T-shirt using ink jet transfer papers.
Collage of valley (based on ideas of David Hockney - expanding research beyond Wales to develop ideas for project)
2Paint version of the collage (pupils encouraged to 'edit' the source image to include only the elements they feel are important)
The T-shirt print image created just using the lines of the original image Pupils also suggested that this could be used for post cards or other mono-tone print projects .