Page Seven

CLASS ACTIVITIES

First Year—Class A. By Madge Farmer

O N the morning of September 16, 1926, we, the new students, assembled

in Room 25 for the first time. Mrs. Hoole, one of the staff, took
our names; and after a time our lockers were assigned us. Later, during
the morning, we were given our first drawing test; and thus our work at
the Art School began in real earnest. As there were so many new students,
two classes were formed—Class A and Class B.

Our drawing and painting lessons, instructed by Mrs. Hoole, were for
some time only drills in perspective; but after this we began more inter-
esting things. Eyes, noses, ears and mouths were followed by heads, and
finally busts; so that at the present time, which is April, we have started
drawing the full length cast of Venus. At the beginning of the second
term we started painting still life groups in water colours. Up to the
present, we have painted whatever leaves and flowers that could be found,
and now that the fine weather has come we hope for many more flower
studies.

In the design class, which is taught by Mr. MacDonald, we first had
to compose a design, starting from a square, in a reoccuring pattern. We
did several counterchanging patterns after this, then a spot pattern, and
then a pattern in vertical stripes. Most of the class designed a panel
next, while some of us tried an all-over pattern. This, along with a month
or more of colour work, is the work which has occupied us until Easter.

In our Commercial Art classes we were first taught by Mr. Scott,
assisted by Miss Kirkpatrick, and later by Mr. McGregor. For two
months or more we were drilled in lettering, both brush and pen-work.
We were then given problems in spacing and planning advertisements,
some of which we finished off in ink. We all designed a box-cover and
most of us have finished two posters, the subjects of which we chose our-
selves.

In the modelling class, under Mr. Marega’s direction, we first of all
learned to construct various leaves. Then we were given apples and