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A huge thank you to Jonny Roberts for Sharing his photography skills with year 11 today! This first hand experience has really helped them to understand the creative and cultural industries. I can't wait to see their own photograph in response to what they learned!

Matthew setting up his still life at Lawrence Street studios today and drawing from direct observation.

Matthew and Lauren, year 13, got a tour of Lawrence street workshops this afternoon. Artist and owner, Martin Carter, gave them a tour of the studios and they created some fantastic drawings and photographs. What a brilliant experience for these young artists!

Year 11 worked in pairs to match words to famous paintings then presented their reasons to the class. I’m so impressed with their insight and how well they spoke using specialist vocabulary. These young artists are just wonderful!

Messy classrooms are where the magic happens and judging by the art room today, year 9 learned a lot by creating these wonderful applique designs!

Year 8 concentric circle paintings inspired by Kandinsky.

Year 8 discussed Russian painter, Wassily Kandinsky, today and painted mindfully along to music. Does the type of music affect our colour choices?

Inspired by the #davinci exhibition at the Ulster Museum, year 11 are practicing classical drawing style, focusing on shape, form, tone and line. They coffee stained pages to give that old, worn look.

Year 12 art students visited the True Colours exhibition in the Ulster Museum last week. Everyone left feeling inspired and motivated.

Another super self portrait from Dylan, year 8!

Aaron, year 8, did a brilliant job of creating his self portrait in pencil!

Really impressed with these implied texture drawings by year 10 and congratulations to Erleta for winning artist of the month!

Year 11 art students are feeling inspired after a trip to the Ulster Museum today. We are just glad we missed the snow on the walk through botanic gardens!

Some really successful magazine collages by 9W, inspired by Nancy Standlee @Wellington_BT7 #art #collage #nancystandlee #artdepartment #keystagethree #cupcakes

Year ten eco warriors are campaigning to save the bees by creating mixed media posters exploring colour, composition and typography #savethebees #art #mixedmedia #keystagethree #environment #eco

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us here in the Wellington College art department 🌲🌲🌲

Santa’s elves have been busy sewing and stitching! Who will be the winner of the Wellington College 2018 Christmas Jumper Design competition? Find out on Friday!! 🎄😱

Year 13 art students, Katherine and Genevieve, had the honor of meeting local artist, John A Rubery, at his exhibition in Bangor (Carnagie Library). He gave them some great advice on how to use their sketchbooks and explained his work in great detail. Well worth a visit!

Well done Amy, Niamh and Dylan in 8Y for these fantastic tonal studies!

Today we are celebrating our year 9 Artist of the Month, Hazel McKeever, for her fabulous observational drawing skills! Well done, Hazel!