Texaco Art Success

 

Congratulations to Eimear McMahon of 1st Year who was awarded 1st place in category C of the Texaco Art Competition with her fantastic Collage entitled 'My Best Friend'. She will be rewarded for her incredible achievement at an award ceremony held in Dublin on the 30th of May.

 Eimear will not be the only Greenhills student in attendance at the award ceremony. Meadhbh Honan, who is also a first year student, received a special merit award for her wonderful etching entitled 'The City'. Congratulations to Meadhbh on her excellent achievement. To view the rest of the winners from the competition click the link. Texaco Art Competition

 

'The City' by Maedhbh Honan

Appliqué Portraits - 1st Yr

After completing their collage portraits the first years started to create their appliqué portraits. They replaced the colourful paper of their collages with colourful fabric, and used a variety of stitching to enter the details of the face. Here are some of the fantastic results.

By Catherine Finn

By Maedhbh Honan

By Orlaith Hodgins

By Susanne Evers

By Niamh Markey

By Emily Carton

By Jessica Martin

By Laura Murphy

1st Yr Collage Portraits

The First Years are continuing on with their portrait project. Here they have created colourful collages using a variety of wallpaper.

By Eimear McMahon

 By Saska Prinsen

 By Ana Gardiner

 By Chloe Bickmore

 By Cáit Murphy

 By Emily Carton

 By Amy Kiernan

By Maedhbh Honan

6th Year Still Life

Here are examples of some of the 6th year's still lifes.
The still life counts for 25% of the Leaving Cert
Art Exam. Students can use a range of materials
including: paint, chalk and oil pastels, pencils,
pens and ink

Julie Evers

Aoife Sharkey

Hannah Clayton

Helen Campbell

Jordan Piper

Kate Finnegan

Christina Lynch

Sema Alabdally

1st Year Drypoint Portraits

Here are some of the drypoint portraits that the 1st years printed recently. Some of them are self-portraits and others are portraits of classmates and family members.

Amy Kiernan

Orla Molloy

Maedhbh Honan

Aisling Kane

Suzanne Evers

Catherine Finn

Sana Baloch

Chloe Bickmore

Niamh Markey

Saska Prinsen

2nd Yr Screen Prints

2nd year students created these fabric prints of shoes using the screen printing technique. After they printed all of their colours they used some creative stitching to embellish their print.

Chloe Duff

Cienna Quiwa

Rebecca Matthews

Chloe Whelan

Ellen Matthews

Grainne McCloskey

Shannon Clarke

Aoife Dunne

Kelly-Ann Owens

Alison Walsh

Niamh Dunne

A Bar at the Folies-Bergére by Édouard Manet