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Second Year

Drawing and Painting

6 aa class is made up of the students who have decided to specialize

in Drawing and Painting, rather than Design. Therefore, Drawing
and Painting take up the greater part of our time-table, with a certain
amount of work in the Principles of Design. Commercial Art, Modelling,
and Costume Design are three optional subjects, of which the student
must select one. Architecture may also be included.

Our class teacher, Mr. F. Horsman Varley, is a recent arrival in this
province, coming here in September from Toronto. His early art train-
ing was taken in Sheffield, England, and Antwerp. This was followed
by a number of years in London doing Commercial Illustrations and
portrait work. His early work in Canada was mainly Commercial IIlus-
tration, varied by landscape paintings of Northern Ontario. During the
War, he was one of the artists commissioned by the Government to do
paintings for the War Records Department. Since the war, he has been
engaged in portrait work and mural decoration.

Our work with him in class has been characterized by a certain
breeziness quite unusual to some of us, but as time goes on, we enjoy
it more and more. The entire winter term was taken up with charcoal
drawing, both from the model, and from the antique. In February, a
few were promoted to the dignity of oils, and many monochrome studies
of casts were made. And now we are entering upon a more interesting
phase of the work, still life groups in color. We are allowed to set up our
own groups, and then we forge ahead, with trepidation at first, but with
increasing confidence as we notice Mr. Varley silently drifting around the
class, ready with help and advice to the needy.

Design

| ‘HE Second Year Design course is quite a comprehensive one, taking
in several subjects besides Design, but all related to it and useful to
our work in that department.

Mr. J. W. G. MacDonald, our class teacher, joined the School
Staff in September. He comes to us from Lincoln, England, after
gaining experience in the Applied Arts in the Sundour Fabrics