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set in its quality of design and its realism.
A lot of the work on Sports Day showed
artistic talent. The balsa wood
architectural projects showed a quality
usually reserved for actual architects.
They were so finished and so exact. They
showed good design, accurate cutting and
modelling skills. This project is done by
Fourth Years, and is probably the biggest
undertaking of any class. The design is
worked out first: dimensions, placement,
volumes. Then the balsa and black card
are cut to these designs. Mr O’Connell
usually gets frustrated about now, because
during these simple tasks, the groups at
each table talk and talk. When the
buildings have to be assembled the
concentration increases and the gossiping
decreases (Mr O’Connell might not agree
with me - my class took the whole year to
finish them). After months of sweat and Stained glass
sometimes tears the buildings are finished.
There is one factor in class that I have insistence on hard work) to us all. Ms
not spoken about, an intrinsic part of the Keogh does an equally admirable job with
art class: the teachers. Mr O’Connell and the younger classes. To this end we are all
Ms Keogh form the driving force behind indebted to them for their on-going work
the art department. Mr O’Connell has and we thank them for it.
served as a source of inspiration and
guidance (but sometimes annoyance in his Cian McLoughlin (Senior 5S)

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