A Budding Artist from Room 10

Check out a talented young artists work and the steps they took to produce something brilliant.

Arts Week focus- Phillip Clairmont

Arts Week focus- Phillip Clairmont

Every year the year 7&8's have an arts week where we explore a specific artists work and delve into the complexities of their lives. This year we are focusing on New Zealand Painter Phillip Clairmont. In particular we are exploring his lively painting " scarred couch", using the techniques he used to create an artwork of our own.


Clairmont remains one of NZ's most remarkable and energetic artists. His expressionist-style of painting turned ordinary household items and interiors into objects writhing and bursting with energy fragmented almost to abstraction. Clairmont has his own very distinctive style of painting where the pictures seem to move around the page in what he describes as an 'anthropomorphic' style.



have a look below at how room 22 created their own unique versions of Phillip Clairmonts 'scarred couch' painting ( currently hung in the Te Papa gallery.

The process of creating a masterpiece...

The process of creating a masterpiece...

When creating an intricate artwork the children are encouraged to take their time and follow a series of processes and techniques.

Firstly The children had to create a background using acrylic and a fine brush.

The skills which the children were focusing on at this stage were paint application, brushwork, and colour selection. Once the backgrounds were completed the children studdies Phillip Clairmonts painting of an old couch. They used pencil and cartridge to recreate the couch in the painting, focusing on using organic anthropomorphic lines and colours. We used oil pastel to add detail and block in the couches,

We then added them to the background as one completed artwork.

Posted by Room 22 Muritai School at 5:27 PM