Summer Art Camps at Ennis Art School 2023 Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Ennis Art School 2023 Summer Art Camps.  Great work was created and everybody had a great time. The Camps range in age from 6 years up to 12 years of age and each day is dedicated to a different Art Form.  The following is a sample of the work created during the camps. Day 1. How to break animals into different shapes to ease drawing.   For this project, I show the students how to break the animals down into circles, ovals, triangles and rectangles.  The students learn how to ..read more

Congratulations to everybody who participated in the 69th Texaco Children’s Art Competition. Ennis Art School,  won 1st, 2nd ane 16 Special Merits. In the 6 years and younger category, the youngest age group in the competition, first prize was won by 6 year old Zoey kennedy for her work entitled ‘JoJo’.  Zoey’s piece is described by professor Granville as ‘a wonderful, expressive and affectionate image’ In the 7 to 8 category, 7 year old Sara McHugh won, for her art work entitled ‘The Waterfall’.  Sara’s piece was described by Professor \granville as ‘a stunning waterfall using ..read more

Congratulations to everyone who took place in the Texaco Children’s Art Competition 2023.  An incredible quantity of work was created to a very high level.  Some of the students have been working on their submissions since last September and as you will see the standard is very high. Mahia Rahman, “Childhood Wonder” Age 17, Category A Joe MacLear, Art Class on Saturday, Age 17, Category A Eimear Fitzgerald, “Three in a Tub”, Age 15 Maire Czyaszak, Age 18, Category A Adam Coote, Age 15, Day Dreaming ‘My Cousin” Haley Dixon, Age 14, Category B “My sister Leana” Julia Swiat ..read more

Summer Art Camp at Ennis Art School 2022 Congratulations to all who participated in Ennis Art School Summer Art Camp 2022, great work created and we all had a lot of fun while creating the work.  I try and take photographs of all the work, so hopefully a piece of everybody’s work is on exhibition in the following photographs. The art camps are run for 5 days, each day we cover a different subject. Day 1 – How to draw How to look at form, how to break the drawing into shapes, how to create tone, how important tone is to a drawing.  This area is extremely important as the student learn ..read more

Once more congratulations to everyone who attended the Summer Term at Ennis Art School, again great work created. Texaco Children’s Art Competition 2022. The 68th TEXACO CHILDREN’S ART COMPETITION, received close to 20,000 enteries this year.  The task of judging these entries was undertaken by a panel of five judges.  The Final adjudication was carried out by Gary Granville, Professor Emeritus of Education at the National College of Art & Design and supporting him were a group of preliminary judges, each one a distinguished figure in the world of art in Ireland.  Dr Denise ..read more

Congratulations to all who participated at the Easter Art Camp, once more great work was created.   These camps are suitable for children from 6 years of age to 12 years of age and run from 9am till 12 noon, Monday to Friday during the Halloween, Easter and Summer Holidays.  If there is not an image of you and your work sorry, you must have run out the door without getting a photo taken. Day One, Drawing tone and breaking the images into easy shapes. We started off with a tonal black and white drawing of a dog.  Tone is one of the most important aspects in all drawing and p ..read more

Easter Art Term at Ennis Art School Once again, loads of very creative work created during the Easter Term, congratulations to all who participated.  I am attaching some images of the work created, if you are not included it is because you ran off before I had a chance to photograph you with your work.   I teach Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 4pm till 6pm,   all of these classes are mixed children’s classes ranging from 6 years of age up to 12 years of age.  The Wednesday class from 4pm till 6pm is the advanced mid-week class, this is created ..read more

Spring Term 2022 – at Ennis Art School. A lot of work was created this Spring Term, with all of the students trying to get a piece ready for The Texaco Children’s Art Competition.  A lot of effort was put into how to create a good Portrait.  Portraiture is the Gold Cup of Art, why so you may ask, it is because it has everything.  It has foreshortening, tone, perspective, form, everything has to be perfect and if it is not, it is very obvious that it is incorrect.  I include portraiture into all of the groups, the young children only do portraits once every term, the older c ..read more

This is just a collection of photographs on the development of a painting in the second art class on Saturday. Eyes, make sure that the pupils and iris are circular, make sure that you have space for the whites in the eyes and that you put in the tear duct on inside of the eye. Skin tone, add your skin tones to around the eyes and nose, make sure you have all three skin tones working. I used a brown and black chalk for the darker skin tones.  The chalk pastels used were Inscribe pastels. Skin tones, continued throughout the face.  The highest points of the face have to have the l ..read more

Children’s Art Classes, Monday to Friday – 4pm till 6pm Congratulations to everyone who participated in Ennis Art School Christmas term, once more excellent work was created.  The following are examples of some of the work created.  This term was predominately a painting term, where the students learned how to draw and paint, dogs, cats, donkeys, Fox’s, Ducks, trees, seascape with a lighthouse, a teddy bear,  portraits and of course the famous man himself Father Christmas.  In the children’s art classes the emphasis is placed on how to look at all objects in terms of shape ..read more