Art Masterclasses & Competition

Felsted School is delighted to announce the winners of the its community Art Competition

The aim of this exciting nature challenge was to encourage children to explore their artistic talents after watching a series of Art Masterclasses led by Felsted’s inspirational art department (all of which are still available to watch below).

There were a total of 115 entries from across the region and the standard was extremely high. Entries were received from Beechwood Park, Felsted Primary, Heath Mount, Magna Carta Primary, St Mary's Nursery, The Takeley Christian School, Daiglen School, Great Sampford Primary School, Bishop's Stortford College, Loyola Prep and Felsted Prep.

The Winners!

Key Stage 1: E Melliss, A Miesner, O Horghidan and R Piek
Key Stage 2: M Girdham, O Aghajanoff, E Francis and E Gemmill
Key Stage 3: D Patel and L Wimsey

Please see below for the winning artwork along with a gallery of all entries. Each will receive a £50 voucher for CASS Art. Winners will be notified and all children will receive a certificate which will be sent to their school.

Congratulations to our winners and well done to everyone who took part!

Thank you so much for running the competition. It was such fun for the pupils

Key Stage 1 Winners

Key Stage 2 Winners

Key Stage 3 Winners

D Patel

L Wimsey

Competition Entries

Masterclass Videos

Land Art (ages 3+)

Inspired by the artist Andy Goldsworthy, create some land art in your natural environment. Use nature to design a piece of art in any outside space, using colour, texture and shape.

Content: Watch a video masterclass, presented by Felsted Year 1 teacher Mrs Searle, as she creates a piece of land art in her garden and offers some helpful tips on what sort of materials to use and what to do to protect your art on a windy day!

Illuminated Letter (ages 7+)

Learn how to design your own beautiful ‘Illuminated Letter’ inspired by Quentin Blake’s illustrations. You can use any media you wish but make it as eye catching and interesting as possible!

Content: Watch a video masterclass, presented by Ms Mitchell, Head of Art at Felsted Prep, alongside three supporting slide presentations. They all contain information on drawing with a dip pen and ink, illustrating in the style of Quentin Blake, and creating an illuminated letter which incorporates those illustrations. The video masterclass relates to the first and second sets of slides and should be loaded alongside if possible.

Guidance on colouring in your illuminated letter can be found in the third set of slides, including a links to further useful videos.

Illuminated Letters - Supporting Slides 1 Illuminated Letters - Supporting slides 2 Illuminated Letters - Supporting Slides 3

Tonal Study: Animal portraits (ages 9+)

Tonal Study: Objects of nature (ages 13+)

A more advanced masterclass using objects from nature such as a skull, a piece of coral or a shell. Learn how to draw a detailed tonal study that uses either a mid-tone or dark-tone background in order to capture three dimensional form.

Content: Choose one of three techniques in a video masterclass from Mrs Jackson, Felsted’s Head of Art.

Lesson 1: Charcoal drawing of a skull, using brown paper
Lesson 2 (from 5 mins): Chalk drawing of a piece of coral, using sugar paper
Lesson 3 (from 8 mins 15 seconds): Gouache (watercolour) drawing of a shell, on a mid tone background

Nature Print (ages 13+)

Create a lively ‘Nature Print’, inspired by the Japanese Art of Hapa Zome or ‘Leaf Dye’, with a rolling pin and some petals; or using a simple monoprinting technique with acrylic paints. You could use flowers, leaves, berries or even fruit or vegetables to monoprint with! Maybe just steer clear of the chillies!

Content includes: Watch a video masterclass that includes three lessons from Miss Buniak, Felsted Art Teacher (Senior).

Lesson 1: frottage techniques
Lesson 2 (from 3.12 mins): Hapa Zome Petals
Lesson 3 (from 6.45 mins): Monoprinting techniques