self-titled

Four of ESA's grade 12 students have banded together to create the collective "self-titled". Just freakin awesome. Appearing here: Two of Madeleine Watson's tiny Collages, Andrea Chartrand's massive composition two (and that must be her in the shot), one of Daniel Hritzkiv's Portraits of my Friends and Jean-Luc Lindsay's Job-Luc. Hritzkiv put it all together to create the site last year and it received lots of attention. Check it out at http://self-titled.ca/ What are they doing now?

Lost and Found Autumn 2010

We at CanadaSchool aren't the most organized. We found these great images but lost track of their origin.

The robot sculpture came from Woodstock Collegiate Institute in Ontario. Some quick Googling reveals the school's art archive, but then we got lazy and couldn't find the original image.

The spooky painting had a California reference, so it might not be Canadian. Nonetheless, its so cool it qualifies as honourary status.

If you know anything about them, get in touch with us.

Top OCAD Entrance Scholarship Winner 2010

Congratulations to Maxwell Hyett of Kingston, Ontario. He walked into OCAD with the top entrance scholarship waiting for him. This is according to the article in the Kingston Whig-Standard...

http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2714101

His experience goes to show how important portfolio day can be.

Photo of Max credit goes to Christine Blais of the Kingston Whig-Standard.

TeenInk.com

A quick perusal of the Canadian entries at teenink.com yielded these two images. We liked iwrotehaiku's "Originality is Lost in the Wash" washing machines because they look like giant cameras all lined up. Ama Indeewari's style is so strong and the colours to bright that we couldn't resist bloggin this piece "Leisure". Both these artists have a few more posted and are worth seeing.

TeenInk.com has much more - writing, opinion, reviews, and program guides. Check it out.

SAATCHI GALLERY / SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ART PRIZE FOR SCHOOLS

Here's some Canadian entries to the Saatchi Gallery / Sunday Telegraph Art Prize for Schools from the UK.



The top one is a collaborative effort by multiple students from Windsor Ontario's Riverside Secondary School. Cool!

The other is from Alison Davis who is at Bernice MacNaughton High School in Moncton, New Brunswick. Her colourful untitled car is done in acrylic on a 24 x 30 panel.

Enter your work soon at http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/portfolio/index.php

The deadline is coming fast in early August.

Surrey White Rock Art Society Art Scholarship 2009

Naomi White is the inaugural winner of the Surrey White Rock Art Society sponsored Emily Carr Entrance Scholarship. ECUAD's Winter 2009 edition of the Visions publication included the very fine work above. Congratulations Naomi!

Fine Print: Since the publication is winter 2009, and this is before the 2010 application deadline, we assume that Naomi is last year's winner, was in grade 12 last year and the work above is part of her grade 12 egg and not done at Emily. Enough hand-wringing. Enjoy the art!

high contrast

this work was done last school year as part of a grade 10 project at Sacred Heart High School in Walkerton, Ontario (so the artist must be in grade 11 this year, right?). the project was to take an image, manipulate it on a computer, then paint it. Ms George's own example is very cool, but you have to go to their super blog to see it... http://artshhs.blogspot.com/

Need More Canadians

this oil painting by Charles Fiddian from Gresham's School in Holt is awesome but NOT CANDADIAN! its posted here to encourage Canadian Kids to enter to win the Saatchi Gallery / Sunday Telegraph Art Prize for Schools for 2010. any age up to 18 can enter and the deadline is in early August. the details:

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/portfolio/index.php

if your school submits, let us know at canadaschooleh@gmail.com

hle boy

this guy is a student.who.does.art, ie is not.art.student. two of the images are our favourite details from larger paintings. this guy is our first guy on the blog and also our first from a different school. he can be found at hlefeaux@hotmail.com

acire2's portfolio part 5

some mushroom thing by acire2 done at the summer institute. and tropical fruit in strong light and shadow. painting with a definite source of light is awesome.

acire2's portfolio part 4

the top one is a 48"x36" acrylic of chandelier crystals based on a close-up photo by her sister Madeleine. the second is a small 5"x7" acrylic acire2 does of pups - this one a purebred yellow lab with a mutated black ear - one of the PADS dogs. acire2 does these to save for art school so contact her at acire2@gmail.com. interestingly, this painting was basically rejected at portfolio day as competent, but not interesting enough. a pure-bred with a mutated ear not interesting?

acire2's portfolio part 1

ok, its late and we are trying to post a bunch of images of part of a cool portfolio submitted to emily carr. we hear this student got early portfolio acceptance after portfolio day - in part based on these images. the hallway from San Fransisco is about 30x30" and done in pencil crayon. the painting below called "they never change" is large - about 48x60". Keep em coming everyone! canadaschooleh@gmail.com