Art: Book Week Painting

Art students demonstrate their creativity with beautiful illustrations for the Book Week Character Painting Competition

There is a definite buzz in the air at St Andrews International School Bangkok this week as we celebrate Book Week 2018. With a host of activities run by the English Department and of course the famous costume competition on Friday, Book Week offers us a chance to get creative. In celebration of Book Week, the Art Department ran a painting competition, where students were challenged to paint a scene or a character from a book. We were amazed by the entries, currently on display in the Atrium.

Congratulations to New in Year 11 on winning 1st prize, for her beautifully illustrated scene from Little Red Riding Hood. Khing in Year 8 won 2nd prize for her pop art inspired portrait of Hermione Granger. Pearie in Year 7 won 3rd prize for her impressive painting of Harry Potter’s owl, Hedwig. The Art Department would like to extend their thanks to all participants for all of the time and energy that has gone into making these fantastic works of art. Here are the entries and winners. (Work by Ritika, Sam, Emma, Nitnem, Trisha, Pin, Isabelle, Maki, Pearie, Prim, Ursha, Ton, New, Khing and Matthew)

Artist of the Week

This week our ‘Artist of the Week’ award goes to Somgene Rattanamaneejarat in Year 9. Somgene’s surrealist self portrait replaces her eyes with butterflies, creating a tension between beauty and nightmare. Her hair turns into a waterfall, adding to the sense of mystery.